**About the Editors**

**Francisco Beltran-Carbajal** received his B.S. in Electromechanical Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Zacatepec (Mexico) and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Mechatronics) from the ´ Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politecnico Nacional (CINVESTAV-IPN) in Mexico City. He is currently a Titular Professor in the Energy Department at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM), Unidad Azcapotzalco in Mexico City. His main research interests are vibration control, system identification, rotating machinery, mechatronics, and automatic control of energy conversion systems.

**Julio C. Rosas-Caro** received a B.S. in electronics and an M.S. in E.E. from the Tecnologico de Cd. Madero, Mexico, in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and a Ph.D. in E.E. from the Cinvestav del IPN, Mexico, in 2009. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Michigan State University, the University of Colorado Denver, and the Ontario Tech. Dr. Rosas-Caro is an associate editor of the IEEE Latin America Transactions. He is currently a Professor at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico. His research interest is power electronics, including dc–dc converters, flexible alternating current transmission system devices, power converter topologies, and applications.

**Juan M Ramirez** obtained his Ph.D. in Mexico in 1992. Since 1999, he has been with the Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Unidad Guadalajara, Mexico. His areas of interest are smart grids, optimization, dynamic analysis of electrical networks and power electronics applications. Since 1990, he has been a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers.

**Roberto F´elix Patr ´on** obtained a double degree in Electronics Engineering at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California in Tijuana, Mexico, and the ENSEEIHT in Toulouse, France. He ´ followed with a master's degree in Computer Science, Automation and Decision-Making at the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at the Ecole ´ de Technologie Superieure in Montreal, Canada. Roberto has experience in the design and ´ implementation of mathematical optimization models to aircraft performance databases, and he is currently a researcher in data science topics to improve aviation operations. He has worked as an aircraft systems simulation engineer and he has participated in projects related to motor control applications in the past.
