Name: Francisco Yumbla
Home Institution: Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador

FRANCISCO YUMBLA (Senior Member, IEEE) received his degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialty in Electronics and Industrial Automation from the Escuela Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 2014. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in the area of ROBOTICS at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea, in 2021. He was a Postdoctoral researcher at the Robotics Engineering Research Center at Sungkyunkwan University. In 2022, he joined the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Production Sciences, ESPOL, as a Research Professor. His research interests are autonomous vehicles, manipulation of robotic arms, design of robots and manipulators, as well as Artificial Intelligence.