Ruben Morales-Menendez received the B.Sc. in Chemical Eng. and Systems and two M.Sc. degrees in Process Systems and Automation in 1984, 1986 and 1992, respectively. He has a PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence from Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey in 2003. From 2000 to 2003, he was a visiting scholar with the Laboratory of Computational Intelligence at University of British Columbia, Canada. He is a consultant specializing in the analysis and design of automatic control systems for continuous processes for more than 28 years. He is member of the National Researchers System (Level II) of Mexico, and member of Mexican Academic of Sciences and Mexican Academic of Engineering. Presently, he is the Dean for Research and Graduate Program of the School of Engineering and Sciences at Tecnológico de Monterrey