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Ramiro Velázquez (rvelazquez@up.edu.mx) is Full Professor
at the Faculty of Engineering of Universidad Panamericana
(Mexico). He is past Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and
currently serves as Vice-President for Research and Member
of the Board of Governors of this university. He obtained the
Ph.D. degree in robotics from UPMC-Paris 6 Sorbonne University in 2006. He frequently participates as an expert evaluator
for the European Commission, CONACYT (Mexico), FONCyT
(Argentina), COLCIENCIAS (Colombia), and MoST (Israel).
He is a member of the Mexican National Systems of Researchers (SNI-Level I). His current research interests are assistive
technology, haptics, and mechatronic systems.

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Edwige Pissaloux (SM'98) is Full Professor at the University of Rouen, France. Her research has been supported by
European funds (EU FP7 Research and Innovation Funding
Program), national funds (CNRS, CEA), and international
projects (France-UK-Mexico, France-PL). Professor Pissaloux is a member of several international advisory boards of
universities and research institutes and teaches in several universities (Australia, Hong-Kong, Canada). She frequently acts
as an international expert for several research bodies and international institutions such as the European Commission,
NSF/USA, Canada, UK, Australia, China, Switzerland, etc.
Her main research interests are the modeling and design of
vision systems, cognitive perception systems, and cognitive
mobility systems.

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Carolina Del-Valle-Soto has a Ph.D. degree in information
technology and communications with a doctoral dissertation:
"Design, implementation and comparison of a new routing
protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks." She earned a M.S. degree in electronic engineering (telecommunications) and holds
a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering. Carolina's main
skills are related to the application and development of telecommunications, specifically wired and wireless networks,
programming and security. Carolina belongs to the Mexican
National Systems of Researchers (SNI-Level I).

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Aimé Lay-Ekuakille (SM'12) is the Director of the Instrumentation and Measurement Lab at University of Salento, Italy
and teaches measurement and instrumentation courses. He

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