Rafael Rivera-López is a Computer Systems Engineer from the Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz (1989), Master in Computer Science from the Tecnologico de Monterrey (2000), and Doctor in Computer Science from the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (2018). Since 1992, he has been a research professor at the Department of Systems and Computing of the Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz. He is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI), an adherent member of the Mexican Academy of Computing (AMEXCOMP), and belongs to the Mexican Society of Computer Science (SMCC). His research interests include studying and applying metaheuristics to solve complex problems and designing object-oriented models to implement machine learning procedures.