Nidiyare Hevia-Montiel received an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a Ph.D. in Applied Sciences from the Université de Paris-Sud Orsay, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. She is part of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her research interests include image processing, computer vision, machine and deep learning, and pattern recognition.