Alain Oustaloup is an engineer from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique et de Radioélectricité de Bordeaux and is currently Emeritus Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Bordeaux, France. He was the founder of the first automatic control team on non-integer systems, inventor of the CRONE control and the CRONE suspension and is the author or coauthor of a large number of publications and a dozen books, including seven monographs.