Is Director of the Living Lab & Data Hub of the Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Previously he was head of the Scientometrics office at the Research Vice-Rectory of Tecnologico de Monterrey for 18 years.
Hector has a Masters and a PhD on Intelligent Systems by Tecnologico de Monterrey (2010). He is full-time faculty of the Computer Science Graduate Program (DCC) and he is enrolled in the Research Group on Advanced Artificial Intelligence. Hector is a member of the Mexican National System of Researcher (SNI) and an adherent member of the Mexican Academy on Computing (AMEXCOMP).
His main research interests include Machine Learning, Data Science, Process Mining and Causality, applied to Research Analytics and Educational Data Mining. He is author of more than 30 papers in journals and conferences, has worked as expert consultant for bank and IT companies, and promoted the adoption of Semantic Web technologies in academy, government and industry.