He is full-time professor and researcher in the School of Engineering at Universidad Panamericana (Mexico). He is currently the director and co-founder of the Computational Intelligence and Vision (INVICO) research group in his institution. He graduated in Mechatronics Engineering at Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico), obtained a Master’s in Science Engineering and his Ph.D. in Computer Science in the same university.
He is member of the National System of Researchers rank level 1 of the National Council of Science and Technology (Mexico). He is also executive board member of the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (Mexico), member of the International Neural Networks Society, regular IEEE member, member of the Technical Committee on Neural Networks in IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, member of the Technical Committee on Robotics and Mechatronics in the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM), among other memberships.
He was the recipient of the 2014 Mexico City’s Youth Award for his professional and academic advances, he received the Best Ph.D. Dissertation on Artificial Intelligence Award from the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence in 2014, he was awarded with a Google Research Award for Latin America in 2017, among other recognitions.
He is the author of more than 70 international journal and conference publications, 5 book chapters, and 4 books, in the area of artificial intelligence, ambient assisted living and robotics. He has served as guest editor in different special issues of reputed journals. He has been part of the organizing committee of different international conferences, such as the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the International Conference on Nanotechnology for Instrumentation and Measurement, the LatinX in AI research workshop at NeurIPS, the International Conference on Machine Learning, and most recently in a special session on the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks in 2020. Currently, he is Associate Editor in the journal IEEE Access.
His main interests are artificial intelligence for social good, machine learning, ambient assisted living, robotics and education.
