**About the Editor**

### **Oscar Humberto Montiel Ross**

He is currently a researcher at the Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de Tecnolog ´ ´ıa Digital (CITEDI-IPN). He received a D.Sc. in Computer Science from Universidad Autonoma de Baja ´ California (UABC) in 2006, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana ´ in 2000, an M.Sc. in Digital Systems from Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN) in 1999, and a B.S. ´ in Electrical Engineering in Electronics from UABC in 1985; all of these degrees were obtained in Mexico. He has published articles, books, and book chapters about quantum computing, ´ evolutionary computation, mobile robotics, mediative fuzzy logic, ant colonies, type-2 fuzzy systems, and embedded systems. Prof. Montiel has led 20 research projects and participated in about 20 others, most of them in the Computational Intelligence field. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a member of the International Association of Engineers (IANG), and a member of the Mexican Science Foundation CONAHCYT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia Humanidades y Tecnolog´ıa). He has experience editing and publishing books. He is member of the Editorial Board of Axioms and Associate Editor of *Expert Systems with Applications*; as Guest Editor, he has published Special Issues for the journals *Advances in Fuzzy Systems*, *Computaci´on y Sistemas*, *Axioms*, and *Soft Computing*. He received the Research Award in 2016 from IPN. He is a Co-Founder and an active member of the HAFSA (Hispanic American Fuzzy Systems Association) and the Mexican Chapter of the Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE).
