CV

Research Fellow in the group of Prof Per Kristian Lehre

University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

• Member of Turing AI Acceleration fellowship project on “Rigorous Time-Complexity Analysis of co-Evolutionary Algorithms” under the leadership of Prof. Per Kristian Lehre.
• Program Committee Member for the first UK AI Conference 2023, organised by the Alan Turing Institute, and the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2023--2025), the ACM flagship conference on evolutionary computation.
• Authored seven publications in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and top-rated conferences, including three collaborations with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
• Presented my work at top-rated conferences and research seminars, and presented a tutorial on competitive coevolutionary algorithms on the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2024) and the 18th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN 2024).

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

• Assisted with teaching responsibilities, including lecturing, grading, and tutoring, for the following courses
• Advanced Algorithms (Autumn 20/21)
• Scalable Machine Learning (Spring 19/20, 20/21)
• Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures (Spring 18/19, 19/20)

Field Service Engineer

Festo Pneumatic, Mexico, Mexico.

• Accountable for the commissioning of high-complexity projects nationwide for key clients such as Bimbo, Jumex, and Femsa. Additionally, coordinated the commissioning of low and medium-complexity projects across central and southern Mexico.
• Create a standard for programming of Festo PLC and HMI nationwide in accordance with IEC 61131-3.
• Key participation in the creation of procedures for the commissioning of projects that include programming nationwide.
• Implementation of several automatic quality control projects using computer vision.

Project Engineer

Festo Pneumatic, Mexico, Mexico.

• Accountable for the commissioning of low and medium-complexity projects in Mexico City, Cuernavaca and Queretaro.

Initiative Operation Leader

Procter & Gamble, Mexico, Mexico.

• Coordinate local project delivery functions and the needed supply chain items to ensure that product changes from HDL (Heavy Duty Liquids) and HDW (Hand Dish Washers) categories produced in Vallejo Plant and Aerobal were delivered to the market as planned.

PhD Computer Science

University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

• Runtime Analysis of Success-Based Parameter Control Mechanisms for Evolutionary Algorithms on Multimodal Problems.

MSc Data Analytics (1st - Distinction)

University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

• Comparison and Modification of Self-Adjusting Evolutionary Algorithms.

BSc Mechatronics Engineering (Distinction)

University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

• CENEVAL award for the “EGEL–Excellence Performance”.
• Outstanding participation in the high performance academic group, Principia 2010–2012

Best paper award

ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)

• Award in the prestigious “Theory” track.

CENEVAL award for “EGEL–Excellence Performance”

National Evaluation Center for Higher Education (CENEVAL)

• Excelent performance in the General Exam for the Graduate Degree (EGEL)
• ∼1% of graduates at national level

First place in the XII Mathematics Contest High School Category Federation Phase.

Federation of Private Schools of the State of Mexico (FEPEM)

Doctoral Scholarship from the Department of Computer Science

University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

• Full UK/EU tuition fee and maintenance stipend for three years (approximately £60k)

CONACYT Scholarship for Doctorate Studies Abroad 2020

National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT)

• Largest doctorate scholarship offered by CONACYT at the time (approximately £47k)

Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM)

Organising Committees

• UK AI Conference 2023

Reviewer for journals

• Information Sciences
• Theoretical Computer Science
• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
• Algorithmica

Program Committee Memberships

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2023