Juan Carlos DelaVega-Quintero is a chemical engineer at the Agroindustrial Products from Residues Research Group, Universidad Técnica del Norte. He graduated from Universidad Simón Bolívar of Venezuela with a master's degree in Industrial Control Systems Engineering. He worked on industrial waste management projects for PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela) and thermoelectric plants from 2011 to 2014. He has also worked for ENAP in Chile in 2014 and PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos) in 2015. Since 2015, he has served as an Agroindustry research professor at Universidad Técnica del Norte, specialising in the conservation of functional compounds during fruit storage, food process optimisation, and numerical methods for AI systems modelling.