Hector Ricardo Hernandez De Leon was born in Tuxtla, Chiapas in 1959. He received a B.S. degree in electronic engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico City in 1982; an M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in Automatic Systems from the National Institute of Applied Sciences, INSA Toulouse, France in 2006. He is currently a full-time professor and researcher at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at the Technological Institute of Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico (ITTG). He is integrated into the research group "Process Automation" of M.S. and Ph.D programs in Mechatronics Engineering at ITTG. His interest fields are supervisory control, and diagnosis of complex processes. His research lines are the automatic control applied to industrial processes, communications technologies, energy harvesting and IoT. Some of his current works are: Intelligent control and diagnosis of potable water plants and biodiesel diagnosis and prognosis. He is a senior member of the IEEE.