Rafael Martínez-Guerra obtained his B.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics at the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico City, he holds a M.Sc. degree in Automatic Control of the CINVESTAV-IPN (Center for Research and Advanced Studies of IPN), Mexico City, he holds a M.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Automatic at Ecole des Mines, Paris France and finally, he earned his Ph.D. Degree from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in 1996. Currently, he is a researcher at the Automatic Control Department of the CINVESTAV-IPN and a member of the National System Researchers since 1992 (Level 3, currently). He is the author and co-author of more than 90 papers in International Journals and more than 140 contributions to International Conferences in Proceedings. He is co-author of 9 books (7 Springer). His main research interest is in the areas of Nonlinear Systems, Differential Geometric and Differential-Algebraic Methods, Fractional Nonlinear Observers, Fractional Fault Detection and Diagnosis, Secure Communications, Fractional Synchronization and Chaos.

Juan Javier Montesinos-García received a B.S. degree in mechatronics from Papaloapan University, Oaxaca, Mexico in 2014. He received his M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in automatic control from CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico in 2015 and 2019, respectively. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Technological University of Mixteca (UTM). His current research areas of interest include robust state observers, control of fractional-order systems and secure communications.