Short bio. Dr. Leonid M. Fridman received his M.S in mathematics from Kuibyshev (Samara) State University, Russia, Ph.D in Applied Mathematics from Institute of Control Science (Moscow), and Dr. of Science degrees in Control Science from Moscow State University of Mathematics and Electronics in 1976, 1988 and 1998 correspondingly. In 1976–1999 Dr. Fridman was with the Department of Mathematics at the Samara State Architecture and Civil Engineering Academy, Samara, Russia. 2000–2002 he is with the Department of Postgraduate Study and Investigations at the Chihuahua Institute of Technology, Chihuahua, Mexico. In 2002 he joined the Department of Control, Division of Electrical Engineering of Engineering Faculty at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico. He is Associate Editor of Conference Editorial Board of IEEE Control Systems Society, Member of TC on Variable Structure Systems and Sliding mode control of IEEE Control Systems Society. His research interests include variable structure systems, observations, and singular perturbations. Dr. Fridman is an editor of two books and four special issues on sliding mode control. He has published over 160 technical papers.

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Short bio. Rafael Iriarte received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1976 in Mexico City and his M.S. degree in Control Educational Techniques. He is currently a Ph. D. student at the same university as well as Associate Professor at the Electrical and Electronic Department since 1995. His research and educational interest are frequency domain analysis of variable structure systems and its applications to real problems using sliding mode controllers. He is the author of a text book in basic numerical analysis techniques.

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Short bio. Ivan Castellanos was born in Chihuahua, Mexico. He received his M.S degree in electronics with mention in control in 2003, from the Department of Postgraduate Study and Investigations at the Chihuahua Institute of Technology, Chihuahua, Mexico. In 2003 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computation of the Autonomous University of Juarez City (UACJ), Juarez, Mexico. At the moment he is a doctorate student in electrical engineering with mention in control in Division of Electrical Engineering of Engineering Faculty at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico. His research interests include sliding mode control systems, control applied in power electronics and analysis of sliding mode algorithms in the frequency domain.

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Short bio. Alejandra Ferreira was born in Mexico in 1976. She received her B. Sc. degree from National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2004. 2000-2005 she is with the Instrumentation Department at Institute of Astronomy UNAM. Since 2005 she is a M. Sc. student of the UNAM. Her professional interests are electronics design, observation and identification of linear systems, sliding mode control and its applications.

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Short bio. Jorge Davila was born in Mexico in 1977. He received the B.Sc and M.Sc degrees from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Since 2005 he is a Ph.D student of the UNAM. His professional activities have been concentrated in the observation of linear systems with unknown inputs, nonlinear observation theory, high-order sliding-mode control and its applications.

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