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Leopoldo Altamirano – INAOE Director
L. Enrique Sucar is Senior Research Scientist at INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. He has a Ph.D. in Computing from Imperial College and a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University; and has been an invited professor at the University of British Columbia, INRIA and CREATE-NET.
Dr. Sucar is Member of the National Research System, the Mexican Science Academy, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and has more than 250 publications in journals and conference proceedings. He has served as president of the Mexican AI Society, has been member of the Advisory Board of IJCAI, and has directed several international projects. His main research interests are in probabilistic graphical models and their applications in computer vision, robotics and biomedicine.
Dr. Mayora obtained his Ph. D. at DIBE, University of Genoa, Italy in 2000. In the same year, he joined the Advance Interactive Systems Laboratory at VTT Electronics in Oulu, Finland, as an ERCIM Visiting Research Fellow. In August 2001 he was appointed Associate Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey and Head of the Graduate Program in Computer Science in January 2002. Dr. Mayora is member of the Mexican National Research System (SNI-level 1) and is Senior Member of the ACM and SIG-CHI. He is the former president of ACM SIG-CHI for Mexico.