José Ricardo Cárdenas Valdez was born in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on October 1, 1982. He received his degree of Engineer at the Technological Institute of Tijuana (ITT) in Baja California, Mexico, in 2006, and his Master's degree in Sciences in Digital Systems at CITEDI-IPN in Tijuana, Mexico, in 2008. In 2015, he received a PhD in Sciences in Digital Systems from CITEDI-IPN. At the moment, he is with the National System of Researchers in Mexico. His research interests include the design and modeling of analog and digital devices, mainly power amplifiers, high-frequency devices, and the design of FPGAs; applications in the field of biomedical; and instrumentation using digital signal processing. He belongs to the research line of cybernetics in his postgraduate studies in the Engineering Sciences of the ITT. Currently, he is the academic coordinator of the master's and doctoral programs in Engineering Sciences at ITT of the PNPC of CONACYT.