Marcio de Queiroz received a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a M.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University, Clemson, SC in 1997. From August 1997 to August 1998 he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Rotating Machinery and Controls Laboratories of the University of Virginia. From September 1998 to May 2000, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. In July 2000, he joined the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at LSU, where he is currently the Roy O. Martin Lumber Company Professor. In 2005, he was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award. Dr. Queiroz served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part B. He is currently the coordinator for the Robotics Engineering minor for the LSU College of Engineering. Dr. Queiroz is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).