Gerardo Jiménez-Sánchez, Ph.D.

• Affiliate Member, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
• Director General, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico
• Silanes Professor of Genomic Medicine
• Member of the National Academy of Medicine, Mexico
• Charter Member of Public Population Projects in Genomics (P3G)

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Stephanie Forrest, Ph.D.

• Professor and Chairman of the Computer Science at the University of New Mexico in Alburquerque and Research professor  at the Santa Fe Institute
• Member of the Adaptive Computation group at UNM
• Member of the promam in the Interdisciplinary Biological & Biomedical Sciences (PIBBS) and the Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Inmunology (CETI).
• External Faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute and serves on its science board

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Francisco Cervantes Peréz, Ph.D.

• Open University and distance education Coordinator at UNAM
• Researcher National Level II in the national research system
• Associate Editor of “IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation”
• Member of the Editorial Committee of  “Journal of Robotics Systems”;
• C Associate Editor of ” Revista Mexicana de Ingeniería Biomédica”

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Simon Haykin, Ph.D.

• AProfessor of electrical and computer engineering at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• DHe has pioneered signal-processing techniques and systems for radar and communication applications, and authored several fundamental textbooks in those fields.
• A noted authority on adaptive and learning systems
• Served as founding director of McMaster’s Communications Research Laboratory
• Received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Award, the IEEE Education Society McGraw-Hill/Jacob Millman Award, the IEEE Region 7 McNaughton Gold Medal and the International Union of Radio Science’s Booker Gold Medal

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Steven M LaValle, Ph.D.

• Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Admission and Advancement, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Published over 100 articles in the areas of robotics, artificial intelligence, control theory, and computational geometry.
• Author of the textbook Planning Algorithms
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and Outstanding Teaching Award.
• Developer of the widely used Rapidly exploring Random Tree (RRT)algorithm.

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Georg Gottlob, Ph.D.Â

• Professor of Computing Science at Oxford University, UK.
• Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria (TU Wien) and member of the Information Systems Institute
• Received the Wittgenstein Award from the Austrian National Science Fund
• ECCAI Fellow,member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and the European Academy of Sciences Academia Europaea in London.

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