Jose Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, in 1981. He received a B.Sc. in computer engineering from the Universidad Tecnologica de la Mixteca, in 2005, and a second B.Sc. degree in project management from the Universidad Virtual del Estado de Guanajuato, in 2019, a M.Sc. degree in computer sciences from the Tecnologico de Monterrey, in 2008, a M.Ed. degree from the Universidad del Valle de México, in 2017, a M.Ed.A. degree from the Instituto de Estudios Universitarios, in 2019, and a Ph.D. degree from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, in 2011. He is currently an Assistant Research Professor with the School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey. His research interests include computational intelligence, machine learning, heuristics, metaheuristics, and hyper-heuristics for solving combinatorial optimization problems. He is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers, the Mexican Academy of Computing, and the Association for Computing Machinery.