Prof. Raúl Monroy

Raúl Monroy obtained a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 1998 from Edinburgh University under the supervision of Prof. Alan Bundy. He is a Professor in the Department of Computing and a research group leader in Advanced Artificial Intelligence at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Prof. Monroy is a member of the CONACYT-SNI Mexican Research System, currently Rank 3 (top). He is a fellow of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and of the Mexican Academy of Computing. His research focuses on the design and development of novel machine learning models, which he often applies in the domain of (cyber) security. Prof. Monroy has held a number of research grants from various funding agencies, including Google (holder), CONACYT---the Mexican research council---(holder), ECOS–NORD (co-holder), BMBF (co-holder), DAAD, (co-holder), FRIDA (holder), and CONACyT-REDII (co-holder); in addition, he is the sole or joint author of over 120 published papers. He is the programme co-chair for MICAI-2004, MICAI-2005 and MICAI 2009, and has been President of the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (2010–2012), chair of the CONACYT Research Network on ICT (2012–2014), and Elected Secretary to the Mexican Academy of Computing (2018–2020).