Journal of AI, Data Science and Cyber Systems

Francisco Jurado received his B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering in 1996 and his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 2001, both from Instituto Tecnologico de La Laguna (Mexico). He received his D.Sc. degree at Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV) del Instituto Politecnico Nacional (I.P.N.) Unidad Guadalajara (Mexico) in 2010. He carried out a research stage at Università Degli Studi Di L' Aquila, L' Aquila, Italy, in 2008, participating in the Non Linear Control of Dynamic Systems and Applications project under the frame of the M.A.E. Scientific Cooperation Program between Italy and Mexico. He is currently Professor-Researcher at Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico (TecNM)/Instituto Tecnologico de La Laguna, Torreon, Mexico. He has been recognized as having a desirable PRODEP profile since 2012. He is a member of the CONACYT's Accredited Assessors Record (RCEA-CONACYT), evaluating national research projects since 2013. He is also a member of the National System of Researchers (SNII) at Level II from SECIHTI (Secretaria de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnologia e Innovacion). He has been distinguished as State Honorific Researcher by the Government of the State of Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico, and the Science and Technology State Council (COECYT). He has been awarded with the Galardon a la Excelencia Educativa Edicion Cusco 2026 by the OIICE (Organizacion Internacional para la Inclusion y Calidad Educativa), Peru. He is also a recipient of a Doctor Honoris Causa conferred by OIICE. He has been distinguished with the Orden Dorada Magisterial award by OIICE. He is an IEEE member, AIAA member, AMRob member, RICCA member, and OIICE member. He has served as a TPC member for international conferences. He has also served as a reviewer of many prestigious scientific journals.

• Nonlinear control design
• Intelligent Control
• Control of Distributed Parameter Systems

1. Professor-Researcher at Tecnológico Nacional de México/Instituto Tecnológico de La Laguna.
2. Member of the Mexican National Research System (SNII-II, 2025–2029; SNII-I, 2017–2024).
3. Recognized with Desirable PRODEP Profile since 2012.
4. Member of CONAHCYT Accredited Assessors Record (RCEA) since 2013, evaluating national research projects.
5. State Honorific Researcher recognized by the Government of Coahuila and COECYT (2023–).
6. Recipient of international academic distinctions including Galardón a la Excelencia Educativa (OIICE) and Doctor Honoris Causa.
7. Principal Investigator/Director of multiple funded research projects (2010–2025) in adaptive control, nonlinear control, robotics, UAVs, distributed parameter systems, intelligent control, and mechatronics.
8. Collaborator and Technical Manager in national and institutional research projects including PROMEP and FOINS-CONACYT funded programs.
9. Research collaboration in international scientific cooperation program (Italy–Mexico) on nonlinear control of dynamic systems.
10. Research contributions in adaptive control, neural control, fuzzy control, sliding-mode control, backstepping, immersion and invariance, regulator problem, UAV control, robotics, and boundary control of PDE systems.
11. Extensive publication record in international peer-reviewed journals including IEEE Transactions, Mathematics, Applied Sciences, Neural Processing Letters, Asian Journal of Control, Electrical Power Systems Research, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, and others.
12. Author of book chapters in international edited volumes (Elsevier, IntechOpen, MDPI, ISAR).
13. Author of peer-reviewed international conference papers (IEEE, IJCNN, CCE, ICMEAE, COMRob, RED-UAS, etc.).
14. Contributor of research preprints in control systems and robotics.
15. Member of Technical Program Committees of multiple IEEE and international conferences (ROPEC, CCE, LA-CCI, ICMEAE, etc.).
16. Session Chair and Competitions Chair in international conferences.
17. Co-Chair in international multi-conference events.
18. Reviewer for numerous high-impact international journals (IEEE Transactions, Asian Journal of Control, IEEE Access, Neural Computing and Applications, Neurocomputing, etc.).
19. Reviewer for international conferences including ICUAS, IEEE Fuzzy Systems, IEEE CDC, American Control Conference, and others.
20. Advisor of doctoral and master's theses in robotics, intelligent control, UAVs, nonlinear systems, PDE control, neural networks, and fuzzy systems.
21. Delivered keynote addresses, invited lectures, workshops, and seminars in nonlinear control, robotics, quadrotor UAVs, neural control, and vision-based systems.
22. Participation in professional training workshops in machine learning, neural networks, and computer vision.
23. Active professional memberships in IEEE (including Control Systems Society, Robotics & Automation Society, Computational Intelligence Society, Smart Grid Community), AIAA, RICCA, AMRob, and OIICE.

1. Jurado, F., Ollervides-Vazquez, E. J., “Decentralized Robust Direct MRAC via e-modification for the Pose of a Quadrotor UAV”, Applied Sciences, 2025.
2. Escandon-Esparza, G., Jurado, F., “Virtual Model Development and Control for an EV3 BallBot Robotic System”, Processes, 2025.
3. Hernandez, R., Garcia-Hernandez, R., Jurado, F., “Modeling, Simulation, and Control of a Rotary Inverted Pendulum: A Reinforcement Learning-Based Control Approach”, Modelling, 2024.
4. Enemegio, R., Jurado, F., Villanueva-Tavira, J., “Experimental Evaluation of a Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Controller for an EV3 Ballbot System”, Applied Sciences, 2024.
5. Jurado, F., Murillo-García, O.F., “Adaptive Backstepping Boundary Control for a Class of Modified Burgers’ Equation,” Fractal and Fractional, 2023.
6. Ramírez, A.A., Jurado, F., “The Regulator Problem to the Convection-Diffusion Equation,” Mathematics, 2023.
7. Murillo-García, O.F., Jurado, F., “Adaptive Boundary Control for a Certain Class of Reaction-Advection-Diffusion System,” Mathematics, 2021.
8. Magallón, D.A., Castañeda, C.E., Jurado, F., Morfin, O.A., “Design of a Neural Super-Twisting Controller to Emulate a Flywheel Energy Storage System”, Energies, 2021.
9. Jurado, F., Ramírez, A.A., “State Feedback Regulation Problem to the Reaction-Diffusion Equation,” Mathematics, 2020.
10. Cruz-Quintero, E., Jurado, F., “Boundary Control for a Certain Class of Reaction-Advection-Diffusion System,” Mathematics, 2020.
11. Alanis, A.Y., Rios, J.D., Gomez-Avila, J., Zuniga, P., Jurado, F., “Discrete-Time Neural Control of Quantized Nonlinear Systems with Delays: Applied to a Three-Phase Linear Induction Motor,” Electronics, 2020.
12. Hernández-Castañeda, F., Santibáñez, V., Jurado, F., “Priority Altitude PVTOL Aircraft Control via Immersion and Invariance,” International Journal of Control, 2018.
13. Vázquez, L.A., Jurado, F., Castañeda, C.E., Alanis, A.Y., “Real-Time Implementation of a Neural Integrator Backstepping Control via Recurrent Wavelet First Order Neural Network,” Neural Processing Letters, 2018.
14. Jurado, F., Vázquez, L.A., Castañeda, C.E., Garcia-Hernandez, R., Llama, M.A., “Neural Block Control via Integrator Backstepping for a Robotic Arm in Real-Time,” Neural Processing Letters, 2018.
15. Ruvalcaba, F., Llama, M.A., Jurado, F., “Adaptive Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control applied to the Inverted Pendulum on a Cart Problem,” International Review of Automatic Control, 2018.
16. Jurado, F., Lopez, S., “A Wavelet Neural Control Scheme for a Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,” Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A, 2018.
17. Vázquez, L.A., Jurado, F., Castañeda, C.E., Santibáñez, V., “Real-Time Decentralized Neural Control via Backstepping for a Robotic Arm Powered by Industrial Servomotors,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2018.
18. Flores-Medina, M., Flores-García, F., Velasco-Martínez, V., González-Cervantes, G., Jurado, F., “Monitoreo de humedad en suelo a través de red inalámbrica de sensores,” Tecnología y Ciencias del Agua, 2015.
19. Esquivel-Prado, P., Castañeda, C.E., Jurado, F., “Partitioned Modal Extraction applied to Power System Wide-Area Measurements using Empirical Orthogonal Functions,” Electrical Power Systems Research, 2015.
20. Alvarez-Rodríguez, S., Castañeda, C.E., Morfin, O.A., Jurado, F., Esquivel-Prado, P., “Real-Time Results for High Order Neural Identification and Block Control Transformation Form using High Order Sliding Modes,” Asian Journal of Control, 2015.
21. Vázquez, L.A., Jurado, F., Alanís, A.Y., “Decentralized Identification and Control in Real-Time of a Robot Manipulator via Recurrent Wavelet First-Order Neural Network,” Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015.
22. Llama, M.A., De La Torre, W., Jurado, F., Garcia-Hernandez, R., “Robust Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Dynamic Regulator for Trajectory Tracking of a Pendulum-Cart System,” Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015.
23. Jurado, F., Palacios, G., Flores, F., Becerra, H.M., “Vision-based Trajectory Tracking System for an Emulated Quadrotor UAV,” Asian Journal of Control, 2014.
24. Jurado, F., Castillo-Toledo, B., Di Gennaro, S., “Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Integral Control for Robust Stabilization of a 6-DOF Four-rotor Helicopter,” International Journal of Factory Automation, Robotics and Soft Computing, 2008.
25. Escandon-Esparza, G., Jurado, F., “Virtual Model Development and Robust Intelligent Control for an EV3 BallBot Robotic System”, Preprints.org.
26. Jurado, F., Ollervides-Vazquez, E. J., “Decentralized Robust Direct MRAC via E-Modification for the Pose of a Quadrotor UAV”, Preprints.org.
27. Enemegio, R., Jurado, F., Villanueva-Tavira, J., “Experimental Evaluation of a Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Controller for an EV3 Ballbot System”, Preprints.org.
28. Jurado, F., “Decentralized Robust Direct MRAC for the Attitude of a Quadrotor UAV,” In: Adaptive Control Theory and Applications, IntechOpen, 2024.
29. Magallón, D.A., Castañeda, C.E., Jurado, F., Morfin, O.A., “Design of a Neural Super-Twisting Controller to Emulate a Flywheel Energy Storage System,” In: Optimisation, Optimal Control and Nonlinear Dynamics in Electrical Power, Energy Storage and Renewable Energy Systems, MDPI, 2022.
30. Alanis, A.Y., Rios, J.D., Gomez-Avila, J., Zuniga, P., Jurado, F., “Discrete-Time Neural Control of Quantized Nonlinear Systems with Delays,” In: Advanced Control Systems for Electric Drives, MDPI, 2020.
31. Jurado, F., López, S., “Continuous-Time Decentralized Neural Control of a Quadrotor UAV,” In: Artificial Neural Networks for Engineering Applications, Elsevier, 2019.
32. Jurado, F., Castillo-Toledo, B., Di Gennaro, S., “Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Integral Control for Robust Stabilization of a 6-DOF Four-rotor Helicopter,” In: Recent Advances in Control Systems, Robotics and Automation, ISAR, 2009.