Electronic Engineer from Anáhuac University; Master in Computer Science from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Morelos Campus; and Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, at the Centre for Cognitive Science. He was a researcher at the Electric Research Institute and an Associate Researcher at the University of Edinburgh, and has been a senior researcher at the Department of Computer Science at UNAM since 1998. He has published extensively on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Service Robots, Computer Graphics, transport systems, and associative memory; and is the author of the book “Computational Rationality.”
He has created various research and technological development groups and holds two patents granted by the IMPI. He is a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Mexican Academy of Computing, of which he was the Founding President.