José Fco. Martínez-Trinidad received his PhD in Computer Science from the Computing Research Center at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico in 2000. He is currently a researcher at the Computer Science Department of the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica in Mexico, and has been First Vice-President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition since 2024, and will stay in this position until 2026. He has also served as a visiting professor at Georgia State University in the United States from 2011 to 2012. He served as a guest editor for several JCR Journals and as an associate editor for the Pattern Recognition Journal. His work on pattern recognition for mixed data, addressing fundamental problems and applications in supervised and unsupervised classification, feature selection, instance selection, and pattern recognition methods for data mining, has been published in over 250 journal papers.