He is full time professor and researcher at the Digital Systems Department. His main research interests are motion planning and control for autonomous robots. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, as well as a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). He was awarded a Fulbright/García Robles scholarship to pursue his PhD, a CONACYT scholarship to pursue his Masters, and was a SuperComputing Scholar at UNAM. He has been member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico.

Marcelo Mejía graduated as a Biomedical Engineer at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) in 1982 and has Master degrees in Computer Science from the UAM, and in Computer Networks from Supélec, in France. In 1989, he obtained a Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Rennes I, France, working on his doctoral research at the INRIA (Rennes and Sophia Antipolis).

He obtained a degree in Computer Engineering at the Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela in 1986. His postgraduate studies were mainly carried out in France where he obtained a Post-diplôme in Computer Networks from École Supérieure d'Electricité and a PhD in Computer Science at the Université de Rennes I. He also did the Postdoctorate at the Université de Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI University) in the Multi-agent Systems team.

Edgar F. Roman-Rangel is currently a visiting researcher at the department of digital systems of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where he conducts research in the area of intersection of computer vision, representation learning, and cross-modal signal processing, applied to cultural and societal challenges. 

He is Director of the Masters’ Program in Information Technology and Management, full time professor and researcher at the Digital Systems Department, and member of the Center for Studies in Competitiveness.  He holds a Ph.D. degree in Informatics from the University of Rennes 1, France; a M.Sc. degree in Computing, from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, United Kingdom; and a B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering, with a specialization in Digital Systems, from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM).