Marco E. Benalcázar earned a Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata in Argentina. Currently, he is an associate professor and researcher in the Department of Informatics and Computer Science at the Escuela Politécnica Nacional of Quito, Ecuador. He is also the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision Research Lab at the Escuela Politécnica Nacional. He has directed several research projects on the fundamentals and applications of artificial intelligence for medical image processing and hand gesture recognition. He has published more than 30 articles in scientific conferences and journals on topics related to the theory and applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning. He has 10 years of experience working in these areas. He is also a scientific disseminator and a consultant on artificial intelligence.