KURI MORALES, ANGEL FERNANDO

Angel Fernando Kuri-Morales is an Engineer in Electronics by the Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City. He got a M.Sc. degree from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. from Kennedy-Western University. He is the author or co-author of nine text books and more than 110 articles published in international journals and conferences. He has thrice received the Merit Medal from the National University (UNAM) for his academic career. He has directed or co-directed over 60 Master's and Doctoral's thesis. His works have been cited in over 30 countries during the last 20 years. He has been a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) (1999-2021). He has been included in “Who is Who in the World” in 1988, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007-2012. Won an international prize for the best solution to the "Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma" during the International Congress on Evolutionary Computation in 2000. He received the best paper award in the 7th Industrial Conference in Data Mining, Leipzig, Germany (2007); the second best paper award in MICAI (the Mexican International Congress on Artificial Intelligence) in 2013; the best paper award in MICAI in 2014. He has been president of several International Congresses, and invited speaker in many national and international scientific events. He belongs to the Evaluating Committee in the Area of Computer Science of CONACYT (the National Council for Science and Technology in Mexico). He was founding partner of Micromex, Inc. and IDET, Inc. and Director of Applied Research in the Center for Research in Computation of the National Polytechnic Institute. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and member of the Scientific Committee of the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS). He was a member of the Board of IBERAMIA and President of the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence. The methodology he designed for the analysis and processing of large data bases has been adopted as a standard in a major international banking network. Presently he is Professor in the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) and External Consultant for several Public and Private enterprises.