Luis Amezquita-Brooks was born in Mexico City. He received his Ph.D. in Autonomous Systems from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico, in 2010. He is currently a full-time professor in the electrical and mechanical engineering faculty at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico. His research interests are control and dynamic modelling of UAVs and electromechanical processes.