Dr. Moncayo is Associate Professor of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations at ITAM and member of the National System of Researchers of CONACyT. The University of Exeter (UK) awarded him a PhD in Engineering. His research focuses on the development of optimization techniques (operations research) to improve manufacturing and logistics systems, as well as the application of data analytics in these systems.

He is Full Time Researcher Professor. He graduated with honors from the Physics Engineering Undergraduate Program at ITESM campus Monterrey, has a Master in Theoretical Physics with cum laude honor from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

He worked as the Deputy Director of the Analytics area at Banorte Insurance and Pensions. He also worked in the Risk Analytics area at BBVA Bancomer constructing statistical and machine learning models for Credit Risk Management of different portfolios.

He is a full time professor at the Academic Department of Languages (DAL) at ITAM. He has a PhD and an MA in Literary Theory (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana); he also has a BA in Hispanic Literature (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). He has been teaching Hispanic Literature and Academic Writing Skills in Spanish since 1996. His research focuses on the relationship between rethoric, literary theory and philosopichal discourse in the context of the 20th century hispanic thinkers. He is the author of Nacer desde el sueño.

He has a bachelor’s degree in Spanish Language and Literature from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), a Master of Arts degree in Hispanic Philology from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Spain, and PhD in European Literature from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His academic interests are focused on the twentieth and twenty-first century Latin American Literature and in Travel Literature, and his work has been presented at conferences and published in academic journals.

Adriana Alfaro Altamirano (PhD, Harvard) is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at ITAM, in Mexico City. Her research explores questions regarding power, law, and agency as they appear in modern and contemporary political thought, from a comparative perspective. She is particularly interested in how our subjectivity—both individual and collective—is shaped by language, habit, reason, and emotion in different social, political, and legal circumstances.