Alay Jimenez Medina, graduated as Agricultural Engineer from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas in July 2011, Villa Clara, Cuba. He studied the Master's Degree in Agricultural Engineering promotion in January 2015 at the same Faculty and jointly several postgraduate and diploma courses related to the specialty. He is currently working as a researcher and leader of the Malanga Improvement Program of the genus Xanthosoma and Colocasia at the Tropical Viandas Research Institute (INIVIT), where he has obtained remarkable results in obtaining hybrids of Xanthosoma for the first time in Cuba, solving the problem of induction of flowering, pollination and obtaining viable botanical seed of this genus. He is also the curator of the largest Germplasm Collections of Malanga Xanthosoma and Colocasia and of the Xanthosoma Hybrid Bank in the region.