Orlando Arrieta received his B.Sc. and licentiate degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. In 2007, he obtained his M.Sc. degree in industrial systems engineering, and in 2010, he received his Ph.D. with a dissertation in the PID control field, both from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, where he also completed a post doc research period in the Advanced Controlled Systems group. In 2015, he also received an MBA from the University of Costa Rica. Since 2015, he has been a Full Professor. His main research interests include PID control, process control, and control systems theory and applications.