Edgar Roman-Rangel is a professor at the academic department of Computer Science of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where he conducts research in computer vision, representation learning, and cross-modal signal processing, applied to cultural and societal challenges, including archaeology, medicine, agriculture, and economics. Previous to his current appointment, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the CVM-Lab of the University of Geneva from 2013 to 2017, and a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico (INAH). Edgar received his Ph.D. degree in 2013 from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) for his work in computer vision and machine learning applied to the analysis of imagery of Mayan hieroglyphs, developed at the Idiap Research Institute; and he obtained his master diploma in 2006 from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM).