Professor Marco Ivan Ramirez-Sosa obtained a BSc in Electronics Engineering at the Technological Institute of Durango and received the “Adolfo Lopez Mateos” Medal for having the best academic record of the 1990-1994 generation. He obtained the MSc and PhD degrees in Automatic Control from CINVESTAV Zacatenco in which he received the Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Technology and Science Engineering “Arturo Rosenblueth 1999.” From January 2001 to October 2002 he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The TECHNION in Haifa, Israel in the faculties of Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, working in the NICOLET (Nitrate Control in Lettuce) Project. He worked from 1997 to 2006 at Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de Mexico and Campus Saltillo from 2006 to 2010 as Research. Professor Ramirez-Sosa has been a member of the IEEE since 1994 in the societies of Control Systems and Robotics & Automation. He is now a senior member of IEEE and Chair of the Professional Chapter of the Robotics & Automation Society and Counselor of two Student Branch Chapters at Tec de Nuevo Leon and UDEM in the Monterrey Section. He is currently Chairman of the Council of the Graduate Programs of Mechatronics at Tec de Nuevo Leon. He leads an innovation project at TUPY related to the manufacturing processes, automation, quality and maintenance. He has published papers in conferences and journals and has been a reviewer in several international and national academic events.
