Juan Javier Sotomayor Moriano received his degree in Electric Engineering and an M.Sc from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Technical Sciences from Saint Petersburg Technical University. He is a main professor and director of the Control and Automation Engineering master's program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), in Lima, Peru since 1999. His research interests include digital control systems, diagnosis and fault detection systems, and systems identification.