Rita Q. Fuentes-Aguilar received her higher studies degree (Hons.) in Biomedical Engineering from Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN) and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees with a specialty in automatic control from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV), IPN. She is currently a Researcher with the Institute of Advanced Materials for Sustainable Manufacturing at Tecnológico de Monterrey. She holds five patents, seven national patent applications, three PCTs, and five public copyright registries. Her research interests include mathematical model identification and control, biomedical applications, machine learning for prediagnosis, and the development of medical solutions.