Ocotlán Díaz-Parra received her Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Sciences from the Center for Research in Engineering and Applied Sciences (CIICAP), Mexico. She is a Professor and Researcher at Universidad Politécnica de Pachuca (UPP) and a Level I member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers. She also collaborates as an Adjunct Researcher at the National Laboratory of Autonomous Vehicles and Exoskeletons (LANAVEX). Her research focuses on artificial intelligence, combinatorial optimization, and bio-inspired algorithms, with applications in transportation, energy, supply chains, and smart cities. She has supervised undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral theses and teaches courses in mathematics, algorithms, and research methodology.