Dancer, choreographer, teacher, and stage director. She was a member of the Caracas Contemporary Ballet, a soloist with the Teresa Carreño Ballet, a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Ecuador, and for 12 years a dancer and choreographer with the National Dance Company of Mexico (CND). Winner of the CND's internal choreography competition for two consecutive years with the works Planimetría del movimiento and TRINUM, she created Blancanieves (Snow White) (nominated for the Lunas of the National Auditorium), Miliano, L.E.O. el espacio onírico (The Dream Space), Misty, Espacio efímero (Ephemeral Space), and Refugio (Shelter), pieces presented at the most important venues and festivals in Mexico. For the National Ballet of El Salvador, she created Tempus and its versions of Carmina Burana and Blancanieves (Snow White).

He earned his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1998 under the supervision of Professor Alan Bundy. He has been affiliated with Tecnológico de Monterrey since 1985 and has served as a Full Research Professor since 2010. He is a member of several distinguished scientific organizations, including Mexico’s National System of Researchers (Level III), the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the Mexican Academy of Computing, and the Academic Technical Committee of CONACYT’s Thematic Network on Applied Computational Intelligence. His current research focuses on the development of novel machine learning models and their application to cybersecurity challenges. Throughout his career, he has chaired the technical program committees of numerous international conferences and workshops. He is the former President of the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), the former President of CONACYT’s Thematic Network on Information and Communication Technologies, and former Secretary of the Mexican Academy of Computing. At Tecnológico de Monterrey, he leads the Advanced Artificial Intelligence Research Group.

Cultural producer and curator with a long history of developing projects at the intersection of knowledge, especially between art, science, and technology, she is currently the coordinator of the Max Aub Chair, Transdisciplinarity in Art and Technology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) fellow for the collective project Future Flourishing. She directed the Laboratorio Arte Alameda between 2007 and 2018 and the Multimedia Center of the National Center for the Arts in Mexico between 2004 and 2007. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Art Education from the Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán, completed the Advanced Museum Management Program (Autonomous Institute of Technology of Mexico, Institute of Museum Leadership, and the Getty Leadership Institute), and studied Visual Arts at the National School of Plastic Arts at UNAM. She has curated several projects, including Surrounded (2009), a site-specific collection of works by Iván Abreu and Jerónimo Hagerman at the School of Art, Media and Design at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore; Archaeology of Autonomy (2018) at Laboratorio Arte Alameda; and Fiamma Montezemolo: Dreaming of Bison (2019) at Laboratorio Arte Alameda.