He is a full time professor and researcher at the Digital Systems Department, and level 1 member of the CONACYT National Researchers System. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Control Theory from the University of Paris Sud XI, France; a M.Sc. degree in robotics and advanced manufacturing from CINVESTAV-IPN; and a B.Sc. in electronics engineering from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. His research interests are focused on control theory, stability analysis, and the state estimation problem, with especial emphasis on nonlinear systems, including the mechanical systems, aerial vehicles, and mobile robots. Along his academic career, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Schneider electric and EECI, in Paris, France; and  at the Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique, et de Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), at Montpellier, France. He has been a long and short term visiting researcher, at the Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt; the University of Newcastle in Australia; the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (Centrale Supelec), in Paris, France; and  in the Institute of Cyber-Systems & Control, at the Zhejiang University, in Hangzhou, China.