Mariko Nakano is a professor at the graduate and research section of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico. Mariko Nakano obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Electro-Communication in Tokyo, in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and her Ph.D. in Science from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, in 1999. Her principal research fields are image processing, information security, and machine learning.