This is meant to be a short bio. I was born in Hermosillo, Mexico. This is northwest Mexico, in the state of Sonora. I received both the B.S. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering and M.S. degree in Electronic Systems from the Tec de Monterrey (also called ITESM), Monterrey Campus.

After receiving the M.S. degree in 2002, I was awarded a fellowship of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) of Mexico. This institution is the homologue of NSF in the US. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. My expected graduation date is in early 2008. My research interests are in the areas of computer vision, image and video  analysis, modeling and classification, pattern recognition and machine learning, as well as wavelet theory. Including research in specific fields such as biometrics, bioimage informatics, proteomics, image retrieval, super-resolution, fMRI pattern recognition, image segmentation, among others.

In my masters degree I worked with Prof. Juan Arturo Nolazco Flores in robust automatic speech recognition. I designed a wavelet packet tree tailored to improve speech recognition which also helped in decreasing the dimensionality of the feature vectors extracted from the speech signal.

In my undergrad, by the end of it, it is a requirement to do a thesis-like project collaborating in teams of around three students. Our team took on the task of designing an omni-directional antenna for a city (Monterrey) with its TV stations broadcasting from 3 to 4 different hills. It was tested in the field and worked very well. We were awarded with the best-project prize in our class.

Many more things can be written here, but I'll stop here, for now.