Esteban Tlelo Cuautle received a B.Sc. degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Puebla, México in 1993. He then received both M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), México in 1995 and 2000, respectively. In 2001 he was appointed as Professor-Researcher at INAOE. He has been Visiting Researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California Riverside, USA; in the department of Computer Science at CINVESTAV, México City; and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He has authored five books, edited 11 books, and around 300 works published in book chapters, international journals, and conferences. He holds the highest membership in the National System for Researchers (SNI-CONACyT-México). He serves as Associate Editor in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2019-Present), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (2016-2023), Electronics (2019-Present), Integration the VLSI Journal (2013-Present), International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (2021-Present), Frontiers of Information Technology and Electronics Engineering (2019-2022), and Revista de Engenharia e Pesquisa Aplicada (2018-Present). He has organized special sessions in IEEE conferences and has been Chair and Technical Program Committee member of major conferences on circuits and systems. His research interests include integrated circuit design, optimization by metaheuristics, fractional-order chaotic systems, artificial intelligence, security in the Internet of things, and analog/RF and mixed-signal design automation tools.