Biometry: Technology, Trends and Applications

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Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza is Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at the School of Engineering and Sciences Tecnologico de Monterrey Mexico. He obtained a Ph.D. degree from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble France in 1997. His main research interests include applications in automatic control biomedical signal processing identification systems and advanced control to automotive systems. He has authored 3 books more than 150 papers in top journals and more than 200 international conference papers. He has worked as an expert consultant for different industries and he is a certified reviewer for regional development projects (manufacturing automotive and aerospace). He is a member of the National Research Fellows System in Mexico.Jorge de J. Lozoya-Santos received the B.Sc. Degree in Electronic Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de la Laguna Torreón México in 2000 the M.Sc. Degree in Automation and the Ph.D. Degree in Engineering Sciences (advanced materials and mechatronics) from Tecnológico de Monterrey Mexico in86 2005 and 2013 respectively. He has experience in industry cement Li-ion battery manufacturing and embedded systems development. As scholar he has been research professor and dean of research. Jorge has been visiting researcher at University of Grenoble Alpes and Politecnico de Milano. He is the author of more than 50 scientific articles. His research areas are: monitoring automotive control and biometric systems in engineering. Dr. Lozoya-Santos is a member of the National Researchers System of Mexico (Level I) the Mexican Academic of Sciences and the Engineering Academic of México. Currently He is a research professor in Tec de Monterrey National Business Developer by Research and Innovation in the School of Engineering and Sciences and Director of the Brain International Site of the IUCRC NSF -Based center in Tecnologico de Monterrey Monterrey México. Ricardo Zavala-Yoe received the Ph.D. degree in Modelling and Control of Dynamical Systems from the University of Groningen The Netherlands in 2006. Currently he is Professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey within National School of Engineering and Science where he develops research in the fields of Serial and Parallel Robots Analysis and Modelling of EEG (electroencephalographic signals) Modelling of Biotechnological Processes and some other Applied and Computational Mathematics areas. He is editor reviewer author and co-author of papers in top journals as well as writer of books and book chapters. He is a member of many scientific societies as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epileptologie (German Society of Epileptology) and he has been invited to give talks of Applied Math for EEG in Epilepsy to Hospitals of Europe and Mexico. He currently does joint research with European universities plans international events and workshops and writes a new book. Luz María Alonso-Valerdi completed her professional studies at the Faculty of Electronics Sciences at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla. Subsequently she achieved her master degree in Bioelectronics at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute and finally she was award as PhD in Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex United Kingdom. She has been a teacher for 20 years in different national and international institutions and has directed around 13 theses both professionally and postgraduate at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla the University of Guadalajara and the Tecnológico de Monterrey. She currently works at Tecnológico de Monterrey as a lecturer and researcher in Neuroengineering. In addition she is the leader of the research group in Neuroengineering and Neuroacoustics along with David Ibarra-Zárate PhD. She is a member of the National System of Researchers Level 1 and has published about 12 articles in refereed journals 14 articles in international conferences and 2 book chapters. In January 2017 she was awarded with along with Dr. David Ibarra one of the five projects that are transforming Mexico at Tecnológico de Monterrey. In October 2017 she obtained the Scholarship for Women in Science awarded by LÓreal UNESCO CONACyT and the Mexican Academy of Sciences. In 2018 she was assigned as part of the jury that ruled the winners of the National Youth Award in the Science and Technology category. Finally in January 2019 she was recognized by SINEMBARGO Magazine as one of the best ten Mexican scientists in the country.Rubén Morales-Menendez received the B.Sc. Degree in Chemical Engineering and Systems the M.Sc. Degrees in Process Systems and Automation and the Ph.D. Degree in Artificial Intelligence from Tecnológico de Monterrey Mexico in 1984 1986 1992 and 2003 respectively. He was a Visiting Scholar with the Laboratory of Computational Intelligence University of British Columbia Vancouver BC Canada from 2000 to 2003. He has been a Consultant specializing in the analysis and design of automatic control systems for continuous processes for more than 30 years. He is the Dean of Graduate Programs of the School of Engineering and Sciences at Tecnológico de Monterrey. His research areas are: fault diagnosis monitoring systems automotive control system and educational systems in engineering. Dr. Morales-Menendez is a member of the National Researchers System of Mexico (Level II) the Mexican Academic of Sciences and the Engineering Academic of México.Belinda Carrion School of Medicine and Health Science Tecnologico de Monterrey Monterrey Campus. She obtained her MD degree in 1998 with honors afterwards her Pediatrics specialty in 2002 and Child Neurology degree in 2005. All of them from Tecnológico de Monterrey-SSNL in Monterrey Mexico. She later got a PhD from the Molecular Mechanisms of Disease School affiliated to Copenhagen University in Denmark. In 2017 she was appointed as Academic Regional Director of Basic Medical Sciences at the National Health School of Tecnológico de Monterrey position she holds today. She is a researcher at the Growth and Development Group at Innovation and Science Transfer Center and Child Neurologist at the Neurology and Neurosurgery Institute in Hospital Zambrano Hellion Tec de Monterrey. Her main areas of interests are Technological devices for Challenge Based Learning in Health Sciences Neurodevelopment in vulnerable child population and biomarkers in Parkinson.Pedro Ponce Cruz is a Senior Researcher Scientist and member of the Product Innovation Research Group at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico City. He received the B.Eng. Degree in Automation and Control the M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering focused on Automatic Control Systems respectively. He worked for more than 12 years as a field and design engineer in Control Systems and Automation. Also He has authored and co-authored more than 100 research articles 14 books and 6 inventions including one US Patent. His research interests include Mechatronics Control Systems Smart Grids Machine Learning Product Design Optimization Electric Engineering Education and Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of the Mexican National Researchers System and Mexican Academy of science. Besides He is an associate editor in the international journal of advanced robotics systems and the international journal on interactive design and manufacturing.Hugo G. Gonzalez-Hernandez obtained his BEng from Universidad La Salle México in 1991 MSc in Automatic Control and PhD in Mechatronics from CINVESTAV in 1995 and 2002 respectively. He made a postdoctoral fellowship at CICESE México. He is Associate Professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey since 2006. He has published several research papers in journals and conferences on topics related to Biosignal Analysis System Dynamics Chaos and Robotics.