2005 - Present: Professor/Researcher (Researcher since 2005, faculty since 2000), Dept. of Computer Science, Cinvestav, Mexico.
2006 - Present: Director of Data Science Laboratory, Dept. of Computer Science, Cinvestav, Mexico.
1998 - 2000: Postdoctoral Fellow, Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnología (ICAT), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.
1995 - 1997: Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Center of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Northeastern University, Shenyang, P. R. China.
Sabbatical Leaves & Visiting Appointments
Jun. - Nov. 2023: Visiting Professor, State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
Sept. 2018 - Mar. 2019: Visiting Professor, Big Data Institute, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
May - Oct. 2010: Visiting Professor, Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management Lab, School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
2006 - 2007: Senior Visiting Professor, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
Editor, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2022-2025 (Q1).
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2017-2024 (Q1).
Associate Editor, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2017-2020 (Q1).
Associate Editor, IEEE SMC Magazine, 2016-2018.
Associate Editor, IEEE Access, 2018-2021.
Guest Editor, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Special Issue on IoT-based Smart and Complex Systems, 2017.
International Conference Leadership
Steering Committee Member, International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (2022-2026).
General Chair, IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE2022).
General Chair, 13th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2016).
Program Chair, 2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Mexico City.
International Advisory Committee, 12th/14th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2015/2017).
General Co-chair, 11th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2014).
Evaluation & Ruling Committees
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal Committee, 2021-2023.
Ruling Committee of SNII (National System of Researchers), Areas: Engineering and Mathematics, 2020 and 2024.
National Scholarship Evaluation (Mexico), 2010, 2015, 2018.
Mexican National Science Funding Evaluation (CONACYT-SEP), 2010, 2015, 2017, 2018.
Awards and Distinctions
Distinguished Professor, Shenzhen University, China
(2018-2019).
Senior Researcher Fellowship, Queen's University Belfast,
UK (2006-2007).
Best Paper Award, 3rd International Conference on Computing
Anticipatory Systems (CASYS'99).
Best Thesis Award (Supervisor), 37th National Thesis
Competition, ANIEI (2014).
Invited International Talks
“Enhancing Time Series Forecasting Accuracy with Innovative Solutions for Handling Missing Data”, 6th Int. Conf. on Industrial Artificial Intelligence (IAI 2024), Shenyang, China.
“Desafíos y oportunidades de la inteligencia artificial en la educación”, SIP, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, May 2024.
“Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics for Sustainable Food-Energy-Water Nexus”, MICAI 2022, Monterrey, Mexico.
“Big Data Analytics for Sustainable Food-Energy-Water Systems”, Senate of the Mexican Republic, Feb 2020.
“Active Rule Base Verification and Analysis: a Petri Nets Approach”, Yilan, Taiwan, March 2017.