Luis I. Minchala received a B.S.E.E. degree in electronics from the Salesian Polytechnic University, Cuenca, Ecuador, in 2006 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, México, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. From the summer of 2012 to the summer of 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar at Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Between 2017-2018, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tecnológico de Monterrey in the Climate Change Research Group. From 2020 to 2023, he was a full-time researcher with the Department of Mechatronics, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara. Currently, Dr. Minchala is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Telecommunications at Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador. Dr. Minchala has authored and co-authored more than 70 indexed publications, including journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and a book. His research interests are fault-tolerant control applied to energy systems, robotics, automation, and process control.