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About the Group

This group works on the most pressing challenges of our society, including healthcare, climate change, economic development, security, and artificial intelligence. The group members develop applied research to support debate and discussion on policies, public decisions, and new research methods to address these problems.

The work of our group in these areas seeks to answer the following lines of research questions:

• What kinds of subsystems comprise a city? How do they interact, and how can they be monitored? How can we use that knowledge to develop more inclusive and sustainable cities?
• What kind of network structure exists in the economy, and how does it change over time? What information and models can we use to explore their behavior quantitatively? Is it possible to develop technology policies that leverage this knowledge to meet specific development objectives?
• How can we employ modern computational methods to study social systems? What patterns emerge when we analyze the behavior of social systems under millions of different assumptions about their structure? How can we employ these methods to distribute the resources of society and nature more efficiently? How can we use these methods to address the causes of inequality and poverty?
• What are the neural and cognitive processes of public decision-makers? Is it possible to employ computational methods to support decision processes effectively? What are the primary dilemmas in our major national debates?

 

Research lines

• Science of Cities
• Science of Networks and Complexity
• Computational Social Sciences
• Science of Decisions
• Public Entrepreneurship
• Public Policy and Government

Leader

Edmundo Molina Pérez - edmundo.molina@tec.mx
 

Members

Adolfo Javier De Unanue Tiscareño
Alejandra Macias
Alejandro Alfonso Poiré Romero
Carlos Elizondo Mayer Serra
Edgar Arturo Barroso Merino
Fabián Lozano García
Fernando Gómez
Grisel Ayllon
Isaac Molina
Hilda Zamora
Grisel Olivera
Gustavo Merino  
Luis Alberto Serra Barragán
Roberto Durán Fernández
Roberto Ponce López
Zeus Hiram Zamora Guevara

Most relevant publications

• Ponce-Lopez, Roberto, and Joseph Ferreira Jr. Identifying and characterizing popular non-work destinations by clustering cellphone and point-of-interest data. Cities 113 (2021): 103158.

• He, He, Roberto Ponce-Lopez, Jingsi Shaw, Diem-Trinh Le, Joseph Ferreira, and P. Christopher Zegras. Representing accessibility: Evidence from vehicle ownership choices and property valuations in Singapore. Transportation Research Record 2673, no. 2 (2019): 724-733.

• Basu, Rounaq, Joseph Ferreira, and Roberto Ponce-Lopez. A framework to generate virtual cities as sandboxes for land use-transport interaction models. Journal of Transport and Land Use 14, no. 1 (2021): 303-323.

• Olivera-Martínez, Grissel, and Adelaido García-Andrés. Infraestructura hospitalaria y personal médico del Sistema Público de Salud en México ante la pandemia por COVID-19. Ciencias Administrativas. Teoría y Praxis 17, no. 2 (2021): 85-105.

• Gómez-Zaldívar, Fernando, and Edmundo Molina-Perez. Evolution of the Productive Capabilities of Mexico: Economic Complexity Analysis for the Development of Special Economic Zones (SEZ). The International Trade Journal 35, no. 1 (2021): 4-18.

• Estrada, Luis, and Alejandro Poiré. The Mexican standoff: taught to protest, learning to lose. Journal of Democracy 18, no. 1 (2007): 73-87.

• Groves, David G., Edmundo Molina-Perez, Evan Bloom, and Jordan R. Fischbach. Robust Decision Making (RDM): Application to Water Planning and Climate Policy. In Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty, pp. 135-163. Springer, Cham, 2019.

• Serra-Barragán, Luis, Edmundo Molina-Perez, and Zeus Guevara. Energy and Environmental Policy and Economic Development. In Energy Issues and Transition to a Low Carbon Economy, pp. 31-57. Springer, Cham, 2022.

• Molina-Perez, E., Esquivel-Flores, O. A., & Zamora-Maldonado, H. (2020). Computational Intelligence for Studying Sustainability Challenges: Tools and Methods for Dealing With Deep Uncertainty and Complexity. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 7, 111.

• Zamora-Maldonado, Hilda Consuelo, Véronique Sophie Avila-Foucat, Víctor Gelasio Sánchez-Sotomayor, and Raymond Lee. Social-ecological Resilience Modeling: Water Stress Effects in the Bighorn Sheep Management System in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Ecological Complexity 45 (2021): 100884.

Most relevant projects

• URBAN SPRAWL IN MONTERREY
Founder: Fundación FEMSA
Leader: Dr. Roberto Ponce
This project investigates the process of urban sprawl in Monterrey, quantifying the amount of land consumed and delving into the cost estimation of this pattern of urbanization for the public finances of the city. The project oversees the causes and consequences of urban sprawl in Mexico. Learn more here: https://www.expansionurbanamty.mx/

• An Implementation of SLEUTH as an Open Platform for Doing Scenario Planning to Predict Urban Growth
Founder: Fundación FEMSA
Leader: Dr. Roberto Ponce
This project proposes a ready to use implementation of a cellular automata for scenario planning applied to urban growth. The most observed geographical pattern of growth characterizing fast growing cities is sprawling. The urban land consumption per capita significantly increased, on average, in cities over the 1990-2000 and 2000 and 2014 periods, according to the Atlas of Urban Expansion. Urban sprawl has dire consequences on miles per vehicle traveled, CO2 and the provision of public services. The evidence has shown that reversing this trend requires decisive policy actions from local governments. The problem is that local governments, especially in developing countries, do not possess the human capital, technical proficiency and financial resources to develop a sophisticated and easy to test policy interventions under a framework of scenario planning. Our project addresses such limitations by reimplementing the SLEUTH model/ simulator developed by Keith C. Clarke, a tool for predicting urban growth that is well established in the literature.   

We have reimplemented the SLEUTH model/simulator to increase the access of local governments to scenario planning for urban growth through an easy and ready to use digital tool that works with open access data. SLEUTH is a cellular automaton that simulates 3 growth processes: spontaneous growth, edge growth, and road influence growth. Each growth phase is controlled by a set of parameters calibrated using past growth data. Three are the main limitations of current implementations of SLEUTH to be widely used by local governments and regions. First, the code of most implementations is written in C++, and does not follow modern and best practices for coding. Second, the model needs to be fed with satellite imagery and raster files on historic urbanized land, elevations, and roads access. Third, the process of calibrating the parameters to historical data is long, tedious, and not automated. These three elements are a barrier of entry for local governments without a developed technical capacity to do scenario planning for urban growth.

To address these limitations in SLEUTH, we built an interactive digital platform that performs remote data integration from Google Earth Engine to feed the satellite imagery and rasters into the SLEUTH model in an automated way, allowing a real time exploration of SLEUTH generated scenarios. We reimplemented SLEUTH program in Python to better integration with modern data formats and frameworks and facilitate experimenting and new feature development for SLEUTH based growth models.  We tested new calibration methods based on machine learning to improve SLEUTH's calibration speed. The platform simulates growth for all major cities in Latin America in an automated way, relying on open access platforms and data.

• Latin American Pathways to Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Leader: Dr. Edmundo Molina
Founder: Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
RAND and Tecnológico de Monterrey have partnered to evaluate decarbonization plans in Costa Rica and Chile in recent years . In these studies, the research team applied Robust Decision Making (RDM) to develop and evaluate different scenarios of emissions with and without the implementation of the decarbonization actions roughly consistent with the countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). These studies then identified the key conditions that would lead the decarbonization strategies to hit or miss their emissions objectives.

This proposed study builds upon these two successful studies by (a) leveraging the tools already developed and (b) advancing our approach based on the many lessons learned. The study proposes to develop a novel integrated Latin America decarbonization model that estimates emissions and decarbonization net benefits by sector and country under a wide range of regional and country-specific futures. For example, our integrated model would ensure that consistent assumptions are made for factors that affect Latin American countries similarly, such as similar costs of imported technology. Then, RDM and this model will be used to develop plausible decarbonization pathways for each Latin American country, and the region as a whole, and identify the key uncertain trends that must be monitored and managed in order for the region to meet net zero emissions by 2050.

The research team of Tecnológico de Monterrey will assist the RAND team on carrying out stakeholder engagements, implementing the RDM framework and on gathering the needed information for estimating emissions and decarbonization net benefits, or to develop proxy approaches in the absence of data. This information will be integrated into the RDM-informed modeling and analysis. The final product will be based on an integrated analysis; in addition, the individual country modeling components will be shared with each country for their continued development and use.

• Advise and Support in LTS Exploratory Modeling to Support Countries in LTO Exploration and LTS Modeling
Leader: Dr. Edmundo Molina
Founder: Banco Mundial
Tecnologico de Monterrey will support the World Bank’s programmatic ASA, Long-term Low-Carbon Planning in Pilot Countries providing an exploratory decarbonization platform that can be used to estimate greenhouse gas emissions pathways for specific countries, based on the multi-sectorial specification of decarbonization strategies, and the estimation of the associated implementation costs and resulting broader societal benefits. Additionally, this platform will help the World Bank team explore how these pathways, costs and benefits vary with respect to different assumptions about long-term socio-economic, technological, and environmental conditions, as well as with respect to implementation progress of decarbonization strategies.

This effort will focus on five countries,  including Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Uzbekistan and Dominican Republic. The TdM team will assembly the datasets required for carrying out the analyses and assist the World Bank team in configuring the modeling platform to the needs of each nation case study. The TdM team will also support the adoption of this platform by the World Bank team so they can use it more flexibly and update the analysis as needed.

• A cognitive modeling approach for understanding computational intelligence-human interactions in uncertain and complex decision-making environments
Leader: Dr. Edmundo Molina
Founder: US Air Force
Decision-making in complex and uncertain environments is a high-level individual or group process that depends on various cognitive, psychological, and social mechanisms, such as perception, attention, memory, abstract thinking, and debate. In particular, uncertain and complex environment require series of decisions to be made, with each decision depending on rapidly changing information, complex computational intelligence tools (CITs), detailed data analysis tasks and multiple agents’ perspectives.

There is limited empirical evidence that analyzes how CITs interact with decision makers in critical decision-making situations or that describes the cognitive and neurological mechanisms through which CITs influence individuals’ integrative complexity traits. We also do not have sufficient information that describes how is that CITs’ characteristics interact with decision makers’ own characteristics (e.g., group size, age, field of expertise). Finally, little is known about the potential externalities that CITs may have on decision-making in these types of environments, such as overreliance, mistrust, or model rejection.

To address these knowledge gaps, this study proposes to combine behavioral experimentation and neuroscientific methods to develop a cognitive model that describes the impact that CITs have on decisions being made in complex and uncertain environments. In particular, this study seeks to address the following research questions:

What is the marginal impact of CITs’ components on individuals’ cognitive bandwidth in complex and uncertain decision-making environments?
What is the marginal impact of CITs’ components on individuals’ level of integrative complexity in complex and uncertain decision-making environments?  
Under which combination of experimental parameters CITs have a positive impact on decision makers’ ability to deal with complex and uncertain environments?  
Under which combination of experimental parameters CITs impact positively individuals’ level of integrative complexity when dealing with a ambiguous or deeply uncertain problem?
Under which combination of experimental parameters CITs lead to mistrust, technological overreliance, model rejection or gridlock in complex and uncertain environments?  
Can the lessons learned in these experiments be generalized across different decision context?
This interdisciplinary approach can contribute to: i) objectively illustrate decision makers’ models of beliefs and values,, ii) identify the impact and mechanisms through which CITs influence individuals’ integrative complexity traits, iii) support CITs interventions in crisis situations, and iv) contribute to the development of modern decision sciences. Ultimately, this integrative approach can result in formal cognitive models of decision making under uncertainty and complexity that will grant the scientific community a deeper understanding of the mechanisms by which CITs and decision makers interact under rapidly evolving environments.

Gobierno y Emprendimiento Público

Sobre el Grupo

El grupo trabaja en los retos más apremiantes para nuestra sociedad, incluidos salud, cambio climático, desarrollo económico, seguridad e inteligencia artificial. Los integrantes del grupo desarrollan investigación aplicada para soportar procesos de debate y discusión sobre políticas y decisiones públicas, así como nuevos métodos de investigación para abordar estos problemas.

El trabajo de nuestro grupo en estas áreas busca responder las siguientes preguntas de investigación en cada una de estas líneas:

• ¿Qué tipo subsistemas constituyen a una ciudad? ¿Cómo interactúan y cómo pueden ser monitoreados? ¿Cómo podemos emplear ese conocimiento para desarrollar ciudades más inclusivas y sostenibles?
• ¿Qué tipo de estructura de red existe en la economía y cómo cambia en el tiempo? ¿Qué tipo de información y modelos podemos emplear para explorar de manera cuantitativa su comportamiento? ¿Es posible desarrollar políticas tecnológicas que aprovechen este conocimiento para cumplir objetivos de desarrollo específico?
• ¿Cómo podemos emplear los métodos computacionales modernos para estudiar sistemas sociales? ¿Qué tipo de patrones emergen cuando analizamos el comportamiento de sistemas sociales bajo millones de distintas suposiciones acerca de su estructura? ¿Cómo podemos emplear estos métodos para distribuir de manera más eficiente los recursos de la sociedad y la naturaleza? ¿Cómo podemos emplear estos métodos para atender las causas de la desigualdad y la pobreza?
• ¿Qué procesos neuronales y cognitivos describen la toma de decisiones agentes públicos? ¿Es posible emplear métodos computacionales para soportar procesos de decisión de manera efectiva? ¿Cuáles son las disyuntivas clave en nuestros grandes debates nacionales?

 

Líneas de investigación

• Ciencia de Ciudades
• Ciencia de Redes y Complejidad
• Ciencias Sociales Computacionales
• Ciencia de Decisiones
• Emprendimiento Público
• Política Pública y Gobierno

Líder

Edmundo Molina Pérez - edmundo.molina@tec.mx

 

Miembros

Adolfo Javier De Unanue Tiscareño
Alejandra Macias
Alejandro Alfonso Poiré Romero
Carlos Elizondo Mayer Serra
Edgar Arturo Barroso Merino
Fabián Lozano García
Fernando Gómez
Grisel Ayllon
Isaac Molina
Hilda Zamora
Grisel Olivera
Gustavo Merino  
Luis Alberto Serra Barragán
Roberto Durán Fernández
Roberto Ponce López
Zeus Hiram Zamora Guevara

 

Publicaciones más relevantes

• Ponce-Lopez, Roberto, and Joseph Ferreira Jr. Identifying and characterizing popular non-work destinations by clustering cellphone and point-of-interest data. Cities 113 (2021): 103158.

• He, He, Roberto Ponce-Lopez, Jingsi Shaw, Diem-Trinh Le, Joseph Ferreira, and P. Christopher Zegras. Representing accessibility: Evidence from vehicle ownership choices and property valuations in Singapore. Transportation Research Record 2673, no. 2 (2019): 724-733.

• Basu, Rounaq, Joseph Ferreira, and Roberto Ponce-Lopez. A framework to generate virtual cities as sandboxes for land use-transport interaction models. Journal of Transport and Land Use 14, no. 1 (2021): 303-323.

• Olivera-Martínez, Grissel, and Adelaido García-Andrés. Infraestructura hospitalaria y personal médico del Sistema Público de Salud en México ante la pandemia por COVID-19. Ciencias Administrativas. Teoría y Praxis 17, no. 2 (2021): 85-105.

• Gómez-Zaldívar, Fernando, and Edmundo Molina-Perez. Evolution of the Productive Capabilities of Mexico: Economic Complexity Analysis for the Development of Special Economic Zones (SEZ). The International Trade Journal 35, no. 1 (2021): 4-18.

• Estrada, Luis, and Alejandro Poiré. The Mexican standoff: taught to protest, learning to lose. Journal of Democracy 18, no. 1 (2007): 73-87.

• Groves, David G., Edmundo Molina-Perez, Evan Bloom, and Jordan R. Fischbach. Robust Decision Making (RDM): Application to Water Planning and Climate Policy. In Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty, pp. 135-163. Springer, Cham, 2019.

• Serra-Barragán, Luis, Edmundo Molina-Perez, and Zeus Guevara. Energy and Environmental Policy and Economic Development. In Energy Issues and Transition to a Low Carbon Economy, pp. 31-57. Springer, Cham, 2022.

• Molina-Perez, E., Esquivel-Flores, O. A., & Zamora-Maldonado, H. (2020). Computational Intelligence for Studying Sustainability Challenges: Tools and Methods for Dealing With Deep Uncertainty and Complexity. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 7, 111.

• Zamora-Maldonado, Hilda Consuelo, Véronique Sophie Avila-Foucat, Víctor Gelasio Sánchez-Sotomayor, and Raymond Lee. Social-ecological Resilience Modeling: Water Stress Effects in the Bighorn Sheep Management System in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Ecological Complexity 45 (2021): 100884.

 

Proyectos más relevantes

• URBAN SPRAWL IN MONTERREY
Founder: Fundación FEMSA
Líder: Dr. Roberto Ponce
This project investigates the process of urban sprawl in Monterrey, quantifying the amount of land consumed and delving into the cost estimation of this pattern of urbanization for the public finances of the city. The project oversees the causes and consequences of urban sprawl in Mexico. Learn more here: https://www.expansionurbanamty.mx/

• An Implementation of SLEUTH as an Open Platform for Doing Scenario Planning to Predict Urban Growth
Founder: Fundación FEMSA
Líder: Dr. Roberto Ponce
This project proposes a ready to use implementation of a cellular automata for scenario planning applied to urban growth. The most observed geographical pattern of growth characterizing fast growing cities is sprawling. The urban land consumption per capita significantly increased, on average, in cities over the 1990-2000 and 2000 and 2014 periods, according to the Atlas of Urban Expansion. Urban sprawl has dire consequences on miles per vehicle traveled, CO2 and the provision of public services. The evidence has shown that reversing this trend requires decisive policy actions from local governments. The problem is that local governments, especially in developing countries, do not possess the human capital, technical proficiency and financial resources to develop a sophisticated and easy to test policy interventions under a framework of scenario planning. Our project addresses such limitations by reimplementing the SLEUTH model/ simulator developed by Keith C. Clarke, a tool for predicting urban growth that is well established in the literature.   

We have reimplemented the SLEUTH model/simulator to increase the access of local governments to scenario planning for urban growth through an easy and ready to use digital tool that works with open access data. SLEUTH is a cellular automaton that simulates 3 growth processes: spontaneous growth, edge growth, and road influence growth. Each growth phase is controlled by a set of parameters calibrated using past growth data. Three are the main limitations of current implementations of SLEUTH to be widely used by local governments and regions. First, the code of most implementations is written in C++, and does not follow modern and best practices for coding. Second, the model needs to be fed with satellite imagery and raster files on historic urbanized land, elevations, and roads access. Third, the process of calibrating the parameters to historical data is long, tedious, and not automated. These three elements are a barrier of entry for local governments without a developed technical capacity to do scenario planning for urban growth.

To address these limitations in SLEUTH, we built an interactive digital platform that performs remote data integration from Google Earth Engine to feed the satellite imagery and rasters into the SLEUTH model in an automated way, allowing a real time exploration of SLEUTH generated scenarios. We reimplemented SLEUTH program in Python to better integration with modern data formats and frameworks and facilitate experimenting and new feature development for SLEUTH based growth models.  We tested new calibration methods based on machine learning to improve SLEUTH's calibration speed. The platform simulates growth for all major cities in Latin America in an automated way, relying on open access platforms and data.

• Latin American Pathways to Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Líder: Dr. Edmundo Molina
Founder: Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
RAND and Tecnológico de Monterrey have partnered to evaluate decarbonization plans in Costa Rica and Chile in recent years . In these studies, the research team applied Robust Decision Making (RDM) to develop and evaluate different scenarios of emissions with and without the implementation of the decarbonization actions roughly consistent with the countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). These studies then identified the key conditions that would lead the decarbonization strategies to hit or miss their emissions objectives.

This proposed study builds upon these two successful studies by (a) leveraging the tools already developed and (b) advancing our approach based on the many lessons learned. The study proposes to develop a novel integrated Latin America decarbonization model that estimates emissions and decarbonization net benefits by sector and country under a wide range of regional and country-specific futures. For example, our integrated model would ensure that consistent assumptions are made for factors that affect Latin American countries similarly, such as similar costs of imported technology. Then, RDM and this model will be used to develop plausible decarbonization pathways for each Latin American country, and the region as a whole, and identify the key uncertain trends that must be monitored and managed in order for the region to meet net zero emissions by 2050.

The research team of Tecnológico de Monterrey will assist the RAND team on carrying out stakeholder engagements, implementing the RDM framework and on gathering the needed information for estimating emissions and decarbonization net benefits, or to develop proxy approaches in the absence of data. This information will be integrated into the RDM-informed modeling and analysis. The final product will be based on an integrated analysis; in addition, the individual country modeling components will be shared with each country for their continued development and use.

• Advise and Support in LTS Exploratory Modeling to Support Countries in LTO Exploration and LTS Modeling
Líder: Dr. Edmundo Molina
Founder: Banco Mundial
Tecnologico de Monterrey will support the World Bank’s programmatic ASA, Long-term Low-Carbon Planning in Pilot Countries providing an exploratory decarbonization platform that can be used to estimate greenhouse gas emissions pathways for specific countries, based on the multi-sectorial specification of decarbonization strategies, and the estimation of the associated implementation costs and resulting broader societal benefits. Additionally, this platform will help the World Bank team explore how these pathways, costs and benefits vary with respect to different assumptions about long-term socio-economic, technological, and environmental conditions, as well as with respect to implementation progress of decarbonization strategies.

This effort will focus on five countries,  including Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Uzbekistan and Dominican Republic. The TdM team will assembly the datasets required for carrying out the analyses and assist the World Bank team in configuring the modeling platform to the needs of each nation case study. The TdM team will also support the adoption of this platform by the World Bank team so they can use it more flexibly and update the analysis as needed.

• A cognitive modeling approach for understanding computational intelligence-human interactions in uncertain and complex decision-making environments
Líder: Dr. Edmundo Molina
Founder: US Air Force
Decision-making in complex and uncertain environments is a high-level individual or group process that depends on various cognitive, psychological, and social mechanisms, such as perception, attention, memory, abstract thinking, and debate. In particular, uncertain and complex environment require series of decisions to be made, with each decision depending on rapidly changing information, complex computational intelligence tools (CITs), detailed data analysis tasks and multiple agents’ perspectives.

There is limited empirical evidence that analyzes how CITs interact with decision makers in critical decision-making situations or that describes the cognitive and neurological mechanisms through which CITs influence individuals’ integrative complexity traits. We also do not have sufficient information that describes how is that CITs’ characteristics interact with decision makers’ own characteristics (e.g., group size, age, field of expertise). Finally, little is known about the potential externalities that CITs may have on decision-making in these types of environments, such as overreliance, mistrust, or model rejection.

To address these knowledge gaps, this study proposes to combine behavioral experimentation and neuroscientific methods to develop a cognitive model that describes the impact that CITs have on decisions being made in complex and uncertain environments. In particular, this study seeks to address the following research questions:

What is the marginal impact of CITs’ components on individuals’ cognitive bandwidth in complex and uncertain decision-making environments?
What is the marginal impact of CITs’ components on individuals’ level of integrative complexity in complex and uncertain decision-making environments?  
Under which combination of experimental parameters CITs have a positive impact on decision makers’ ability to deal with complex and uncertain environments?  
Under which combination of experimental parameters CITs impact positively individuals’ level of integrative complexity when dealing with a ambiguous or deeply uncertain problem?
Under which combination of experimental parameters CITs lead to mistrust, technological overreliance, model rejection or gridlock in complex and uncertain environments?  
Can the lessons learned in these experiments be generalized across different decision context?
This interdisciplinary approach can contribute to: i) objectively illustrate decision makers’ models of beliefs and values,, ii) identify the impact and mechanisms through which CITs influence individuals’ integrative complexity traits, iii) support CITs interventions in crisis situations, and iv) contribute to the development of modern decision sciences. Ultimately, this integrative approach can result in formal cognitive models of decision making under uncertainty and complexity that will grant the scientific community a deeper understanding of the mechanisms by which CITs and decision makers interact under rapidly evolving environments.

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We want you to enjoy your stay in the city and at Tec, but we also want you to enjoy your home, so take advantage of this time with your family or friends, since Residencias Tec does not offer service on dates after the end of courses.

6. Will I be able to leave my belongings on vacation?

Some campuses have a belongings storage service for those residents who have a space reserved for the following academic period. On other occasions, residents must store their belongings in their closets at the end of the semester.

7. I have some disagreement, where should I go?

We assure you that these will be minimal since we are constantly working to offer you excellent experience. In the unlikely event that any disagreement arises, do not hesitate to share it with your prefect, they will know where to go and tell you the actions to take.

8. Can I choose my roommate?

Yes, it is possible, all you need to do is meet the following requirements:

  • Let them request each other.
  • That they request the same building (applies only to the Monterrey campus).
  • They must carry out the admission requirements and processes at the same time.

9. Recommendations and/or suggestions for items that you cannot bring:

  • Candles
  • Incenses
  • oil lamp
  • Nails
  • screws
  • Double-sided tape
  • Hammer
  • electric frying pans
  • electric grills
  • toasters
  • Any type of coolers (water and/or air)
  • Microwaves
  • Coffee makers
  • Any electrical resistance device
  • pets

Consumer Behavior and Conscious Marketing

Sobre el Grupo

Nos enfocamos al estudio del comportamiento del consumidor para desarrollar estrategias comerciales eficaces que promuevan el consumo responsable y el bienestar social.

Líneas de investigación

  • Marcas y adopción de innovaciones
  • Estrategias de mercadotecnia
  • Significados culturales del consumo
  • Comportamiento de consumo responsable y bienestar social

Líder

Jorge Luis Graciano Vera Martínez - jorge.vera@tec.mx
 

Miembros

Alberto López Hernández
Edgar Antonio Centeno Velázquez
Lorena de la Paz Carrete Lucero
María del Pilar Ester Arroyo López
Rajagopal


Adscritos

Adriana Morales Rodríguez
Alejandro Alvarado Herrera
Citlali del Carmen Calderón Frese
Claudia Maria Quintanilla Dominguez
Diana Kolbe
Jaime Eduardo Martínez Sánchez
Raquel Minerva Castaño González

Publicaciones

Top 5 de publicaciones 2015-2019

- Success factors in a CRM strategy: technology is not all
Autores: Cambra-Fierro, J., Centeno, E., Olavarria, A., & Vazquez-Carrasco, R.

- Share, like and achieve: The power of Facebook to reach health-related goals
Autores: de la Peña, A., & Quintanilla, C.

- Green shades: A segmentation approach based on ecological consumer behavior in an emerging economy
Autores: González, E., Felix, R., Carrete, L., Centeno, E., & Castaño, R.

- Drivers of consumer attitudes towards online shopping in the Indian market: Analysis through an extended TAM model
Autores: Reyes-Mercado, P., Karthik, M., Mishra, R., & Rajagopal,  .

- Developing entrepreneurship in primary schools. The Mexican experience of "My first enterprise: Entrepreneurship by playing"
Autores: Cárcamo-Solís, M., Arroyo-López, M., Alvarez-Castañón, L., & García-López, E.

 

Cyber physical systems

About the Group

Cyber physical systems (CPS) are composed of the interaction of two fundamental elements: the physical systems that perform some process or function of interest, and the digital twins that model their behavior.

The interaction occurs through the exchange of data between the two parties. The mission of the CPS is to maximize the performance of these systems: optimize performance, reduce waste, ensure safety. There are major challenges for the implementation of CPS. The Cyber-Physical Systems research group develops cutting-edge techniques in disciplines such as precision design, artificial intelligence, advanced control, robotics, additive manufacturing and advanced computational modeling, in the solution of the major technological challenges that prevent the realization of CPS: digitization of systems, development of digital twins and the synchronization of physical systems with the data they generate.

The research products of this group are applied in fields such as Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0, Robotics, Prosthetics development, and Neuroengineering.


Research lines

• Digitization of Manufacturing and Development of Digital Twins
• Advanced Machine and Process Control
• Autonomous vehicle control and electromobility
• Human-Machine Interfaces and Neurotechnological Developments
• Robotics

Leader

Horacio Ahuett Garza - horacio.ahuett@tec.mx


Members

Carlos Gustavo Sotelo Molina
Carlos Renato Vázquez Topete
David Alejandro Sotelo Molina
Herman Castañeda Cuevas
Javier Mauricio Antelis Ortíz
Joel Carlos Huegel West
Juan Carlos Tudon Martínez
Luis Eduardo Garza Castañón
Luz María Alonso Valerdi
Ricardo Zavála Yoe
Thomas R. Kurfess (Profesor distinguido)

Most relevant publications

• Ahuett-Garza, Horacio, and Thomas Kurfess. "A brief discussion on the trends of habilitating technologies for Industry 4.0 and Smart manufacturing." Manufacturing Letters 15 (2018): 60-63.

• Naranjo-Lozada, J., Ahuett-Garza, H., Orta-Castañón, P., Verbeeten, W. M., & Sáiz-González, D. (2019). Tensile properties and failure behavior of chopped and continuous carbon fiber composites produced by additive manufacturing. Additive Manufacturing, 26, 227-241.

Adaptive integral terminal super-twisting with finite-time convergence for an unmanned surface vehicle under disturbances, Gonzalez-Garcia, A., Castañeda, H. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1002/rnc.6368

Vision-Based Hierarchical Impedance Control of an Aerial Manipulator Hu, A., Xu, M., Wang, H., Liang, X., Castaneda, H, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2022, 10.1109/TIE.2022.3203755

• Nayid Triana-Guzman, Alvaro D. Orjuela-Cañon, Andres L. Jutinico, Omar Mendoza-Montoya* and Javier M. Antelis. Decoding EEG rhythms offline and online during motor imagery for standing and sitting based on a brain-computer interface. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, Vol. XX, pages 16:961089 (2022) DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2022.961089, Online ISSN: 1662-5196

• Javier M. Antelis, Marco Cavaglià, Travis Hansen, Manuel D. Morales, Claudia Moreno, Soma Mukherjee, Marek J. Szczepańczyk and Michele Zanolin. Using supervised learning algorithms as a follow-up method in the search of gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae. Physical Review D. 2025, Vol. 105, No. 8, pp. 084054 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.084054, Print ISSN 24700010, Online ISSN 24700029

Application of deep learning for fast detection of COVID-19 in X-Rays using nCOVnet H Panwar, PK Gupta, MK Siddiqui, R Morales-Menendez, V Singh. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 138, 109944  

Quality 4.0: a Review of Big Data Challenges in Manufacturing RMM Carlos A.Escobar, Megan McGovern. J of Intelligent Manufacturing 1 (1), 1-16

JCR ARTICULO Marco A. Barreto, Jorge Perez-Gonzalez, Hugh M. Herr, Joel C. Huegel. 2022. ARACAM: A RGB-D Multi-View Photogrammetry System for Lower Limb 3D Reconstruction Applications. Sensors 22, no. 7: 2443. Q1 ISSN: 1424-3210, 1424-8220 DOI: 10.3390/s22072443

JCR ARTICULO Ballesteros, Mariana; Lopez-Perez, Manuel A.; Fuentes-Aguilar Rita Q.; Chavarrias-Solano, Pedro E.; Alemón, Beatriz; Huegel, Joel C. Automated and controlled system for analysis of residual limbs thermograms of transtibial amputees. Applied Sciences 12(09) doi.org/10.3390/app12094170; Q2 ISSN: 2076-3417.

• M. Hori Uribe, C.R. Vázquez, M. Antelis, A fast EMG-based algorithm for upper-limb motion intention detection by using Levant’s differentiators, IEEE Access, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3214531

• C.A. Anguiano-Gijon, A. Cid-Gaona, J.M. Chavez-Delgado, C.R. Vazquez, On the Design of Regulation Controllers for Automation Systems with RCPetri, Applied Science, vol. 12(7), 3294, 2022, DOI: 10.3390/APP12073294

Most relevant projects

Robust Control for quadrotor and hexarotor UAVs
Leader: Herman Castañeda Cuevas
Diseño de controladores para vehículos aéreos no tripulados en presencia de perturbaciones externas tales como el viento.

Robust control for Surface and Underwater vehicles
Leader: Herman Castañeda Cuevas
Diseño de controladores para vehiculos acuáticos robustos a perturbaciones tales como viento, olas y corrientes acuáticas

Robust visual servoing (UAVs)
Leader: Herman Castañeda Cuevas
Diseño de controladores robustos basados en visión computacional

Robust control for multi-robots (UAVs, USVs)
Leader: Herman Castañeda Cuevas
Diseño de controladores para una flota de vehículos aéreos no tripulados para realizar formación y contención.

Interfaces Cerebro Computador para recuperación de movilidad y Comunicación. Con Tec Salud - Hopital Zambrano Hellion

Novus 2023 aprobado: Evaluación de atención y concentración en entornos reales de aprendizaje utilizando la actividad cerebral de los estudiantes

Aplicación a ciencia de frontera 2023: CF-2023-G-267

Diseño y desarrollo de prótesis de alta funcionalidad y comodidad para el mercado mexicano en colaboración con Dr Hugh Herr

Análisis y síntesis de control de seguimiento para redes de Petri
Leader: Carlos Renato Vázquez Topete.
Proyecto financiado por el programa Ciencia Básica CONACYT sobre el desarrollo de herramientas matemáticas para el diseño de controladores de automatización industrial (2017-2022). 

Business relationship

MAGNA CIMS, Ramos Arizpe Coah.
ZF Group, a traves de VantTec (practicas profesionales para 10 alumnos dedicados al desarrollo de un vehículo autónomo)
John Deere, Estudiante de la MCI (proyecto cuya información es clasificada)
General Motors, Global Technical Center, Warren Michigan, US
Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación (INR). Brain-Computer Interface Controlled Functional Electrical Stimulation for Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Patents applied for and patents granted

• Máquina de Fabricación Mecánica, Eléctrica y Electrónica Aditivas en 3D, solicitada (us 62/781723)
• Patent MX377056. Granted on September 23, 2020
• Patent MX382653. Granted on May 13, 2021
• PCT Application  PCT/MX2018/050028

Sistemas ciberfísicos

Sobre el Grupo

Los sistemas cyber físicos (Cyber physical systems  CPS) están compuestos por la interacción de dos elementos fundamentales: los sistemas físicos que realizan algún proceso o función de interés, y los gemelos digitales que los modelan su comportamiento.

La interacción se da a través del intercambio de datos entre ambos. La misión de los CPS es maximizar el desempeño de dichos sistemas: optimizar el desempeño, reducir el desperdicio, garantizar la seguridad. Existen grandes retos para la implementación de los CPS. El grupo de investigación en Sistemas Cyber Físicos desarrolla técnicas de vanguardia en disciplinas como diseño de precisión, inteligencia artificial, control avanzado, robótica, la manufactura aditiva y modelación computacional avanzada, en la solución de los grandes retos tecnológicos que impiden la realización de los CPS: digitalización de los sistemas, desarrollo de gemelos digitales y la sincronización de los sistemas físicos con los datos que estos generan.

Los productos de la investigación de este grupo se aplican en campos como la Manufactura Inteligente e Industria 4.0, la Robótica, el desarrollo de Prótesis, y las Neuroingeniería.


Líneas de investigación

• Digitalización de la manufactura y desarrollo de gemelos digitales
• Control Avanzado de Máquinas y Procesos
• Control de vehículos autónomos y electromovilidad
• Interfaces Humano-Máquina y Desarrollos Neurotecnológicos
• Robótica

Líder

Horacio Ahuett Garza - horacio.ahuett@tec.mx


Miembros

Carlos Gustavo Sotelo Molina
Carlos Renato Vázquez Topete
David Alejandro Sotelo Molina
Herman Castañeda Cuevas
Javier Mauricio Antelis Ortíz
Joel Carlos Huegel West
Juan Carlos Tudon Martínez
Luis Eduardo Garza Castañón
Luz María Alonso Valerdi
Ricardo Zavála Yoe
Thomas R. Kurfess (Profesor distinguido)

Publicaciones más relevantes

• Ahuett-Garza, Horacio, and Thomas Kurfess. "A brief discussion on the trends of habilitating technologies for Industry 4.0 and Smart manufacturing." Manufacturing Letters 15 (2018): 60-63.

• Naranjo-Lozada, J., Ahuett-Garza, H., Orta-Castañón, P., Verbeeten, W. M., & Sáiz-González, D. (2019). Tensile properties and failure behavior of chopped and continuous carbon fiber composites produced by additive manufacturing. Additive Manufacturing, 26, 227-241.

Adaptive integral terminal super-twisting with finite-time convergence for an unmanned surface vehicle under disturbances, Gonzalez-Garcia, A., Castañeda, H. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1002/rnc.6368

Vision-Based Hierarchical Impedance Control of an Aerial Manipulator Hu, A., Xu, M., Wang, H., Liang, X., Castaneda, H, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2022, 10.1109/TIE.2022.3203755

• Nayid Triana-Guzman, Alvaro D. Orjuela-Cañon, Andres L. Jutinico, Omar Mendoza-Montoya* and Javier M. Antelis. Decoding EEG rhythms offline and online during motor imagery for standing and sitting based on a brain-computer interface. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, Vol. XX, pages 16:961089 (2022) DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2022.961089, Online ISSN: 1662-5196

• Javier M. Antelis, Marco Cavaglià, Travis Hansen, Manuel D. Morales, Claudia Moreno, Soma Mukherjee, Marek J. Szczepańczyk and Michele Zanolin. Using supervised learning algorithms as a follow-up method in the search of gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae. Physical Review D. 2025, Vol. 105, No. 8, pp. 084054 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.084054, Print ISSN 24700010, Online ISSN 24700029

Application of deep learning for fast detection of COVID-19 in X-Rays using nCOVnet H Panwar, PK Gupta, MK Siddiqui, R Morales-Menendez, V Singh. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 138, 109944  

Quality 4.0: a Review of Big Data Challenges in Manufacturing RMM Carlos A.Escobar, Megan McGovern. J of Intelligent Manufacturing 1 (1), 1-16

JCR ARTICULO Marco A. Barreto, Jorge Perez-Gonzalez, Hugh M. Herr, Joel C. Huegel. 2022. ARACAM: A RGB-D Multi-View Photogrammetry System for Lower Limb 3D Reconstruction Applications. Sensors 22, no. 7: 2443. Q1 ISSN: 1424-3210, 1424-8220 DOI: 10.3390/s22072443                                                                                                                                                                                               • JCR ARTICULO Ballesteros, Mariana; Lopez-Perez, Manuel A.; Fuentes-Aguilar Rita Q.; Chavarrias-Solano, Pedro E.; Alemón, Beatriz; Huegel, Joel C. Automated and controlled system for analysis of residual limbs thermograms of transtibial amputees. Applied Sciences 12(09) doi.org/10.3390/app12094170; Q2 ISSN: 2076-3417.         

• M. Hori Uribe, C.R. Vázquez, M. Antelis, A fast EMG-based algorithm for upper-limb motion intention detection by using Levant’s differentiators, IEEE Access, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3214531

• C.A. Anguiano-Gijon, A. Cid-Gaona, J.M. Chavez-Delgado, C.R. Vazquez, On the Design of Regulation Controllers for Automation Systems with RCPetri, Applied Science, vol. 12(7), 3294, 2022, DOI: 10.3390/APP12073294

Proyectos más relevantes

Robust Control for quadrotor and hexarotor UAVs
Líder: Herman Castañeda Cuevas
Diseño de controladores para vehículos aéreos no tripulados en presencia de perturbaciones externas tales como el viento.

Robust control for Surface and Underwater vehicles
Líder: Herman Castañeda Cuevas
Diseño de controladores para vehiculos acuáticos robustos a perturbaciones tales como viento, olas y corrientes acuáticas

Robust visual servoing (UAVs)
Líder: Herman Castañeda Cuevas
Diseño de controladores robustos basados en visión computacional

Robust control for multi-robots (UAVs, USVs)
Líder: Herman Castañeda Cuevas
Diseño de controladores para una flota de vehículos aéreos no tripulados para realizar formación y contención.

Interfaces Cerebro Computador para recuperación de movilidad y Comunicación. Con Tec Salud - Hopital Zambrano Hellion

Novus 2023 aprobado: Evaluación de atención y concentración en entornos reales de aprendizaje utilizando la actividad cerebral de los estudiantes

Aplicación a ciencia de frontera 2023: CF-2023-G-267

Diseño y desarrollo de prótesis de alta funcionalidad y comodidad para el mercado mexicano en colaboración con Dr Hugh Herr

Análisis y síntesis de control de seguimiento para redes de Petri
Líder: Carlos Renato Vázquez Topete.
Proyecto financiado por el programa Ciencia Básica CONACYT sobre el desarrollo de herramientas matemáticas para el diseño de controladores de automatización industrial (2017-2022). 

Vinculación empresarial

MAGNA CIMS, Ramos Arizpe Coah.
ZF Group, a traves de VantTec (practicas profesionales para 10 alumnos dedicados al desarrollo de un vehículo autónomo)
John Deere, Estudiante de la MCI (proyecto cuya información es clasificada)
General Motors, Global Technical Center, Warren Michigan, US
Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación (INR). Brain-Computer Interface Controlled Functional Electrical Stimulation for Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Patentes solictadas y patentes otorgadas

• Máquina de Fabricación Mecánica, Eléctrica y Electrónica Aditivas en 3D, solicitada (us 62/781723)
• Patent MX377056. Granted on September 23, 2020
• Patent MX382653. Granted on May 13, 2021
• PCT Application  PCT/MX2018/050028