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Jorge Rubén Vega graduated in 1985 as an Electrical Engineer (National University of La Plata, Argentina), and in 1993 as a Doctor in Chemical Technology (National University of the Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina). He is Principal Investigator of CONICET at the “Institute of Technological Development for the Chemical Industry – INTEC” (Santa Fe, Argentina), dependent on the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and the National University of the Litoral (UNL). At the National Technological University (UTN), Santa Fe Regional School (FRSF), he currently works as Associate Professor of the subject “Automatic Control” and as Director of the Area “Electronics and Control Systems”, in the Department of Electrical Engineering; and as Professor of Postgraduate courses in the Control area. He is Director of the “Center for Research and Development in Electrical Engineering and Energy Systems – CIESE” (UTN, FRSF). He is the Director of the Postgraduate Program “Specialization in Electric Energy” (UTN, FRSF). He also directs postgraduate scholarship holders and doctoral thesis, having directed research and development projects funded by Conicet, the National Agency for the Promotion of Scientific and Technological Research, the UNL, the UTN, etc. He is a Faculty Advisor of the IEEE Student Branch of the UTN-FRSF. His research topics involve modeling, estimation, control and optimization of processes, inverse problems in engineering, and electrical networks with integration of renewable energies, among others. In institutional management activities at the UTN-FRSF, he was Academic Undersecretary; He is currently a Board Member, a Director of the Department of Electrical Engineering, a member of the Graduate Commission, and a member of several Academic Committees for Graduate Careers. He is also a member of the Graduate Commission of the UTN.

J. A. Pucheta received the Electrical Engineering degree from National Technological University – Córdoba Regional Faculty, Argentina, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina, in 1999, 2002 and 2006, respectively. He is currently Professor at Mathematics Research Laboratory applied to Control (LIMAC), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. His research interests include stochastic and optimal control, time series forecast and machine learning. IEEE member.

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Julio Elias Normey-Rico received the Ph.D. degree in robotics, automation and electronics from the Department of System Engineering and Automatic Control, University of Seville, Seville, Spain, in 1999.,He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Automation and Systems Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil; a Researcher of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Braslia, Brazil, and the Director of several projects with industry in Brazil. His current research interests include model predictive control, PID control, dead-time systems and process control applications. He is the author or coauthor of about 260 conference and journal papers, the book Control of Dead-Time Processes (Springer, 2007), and has supervised 60 Ph.D./M.Sc. graduates.(Based on document published on 22 June 2018).