MURRIETA CID, RAFAEL ERIC

Rafael Murrieta-Cid is a Senior Research Scientist (Investigador Titular D) at the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT) in Guanajuato, Mexico. He received his B.S. in Physics Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico, and his Ph.D. in in robotics (vision-based navigation) from the Institut National Polytechnique, Toulouse, France, he conducted his doctoral research with the Robotics Group at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse. He has held postdoctoral positions at Stanford University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and has completed two sabbaticals, one at UIUC and another at INRIA Université Côte d’Azur.
Dr. Murrieta-Cid is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers, rank 3 and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He currently serves as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
His research interests include robotics, robot motion planning, and automatic control.