Dr. Sigfredo Fuentes is an associate professor in Digital Agriculture, Food and Wine Sciences (DAFW) at the School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences (SAFES) in the Faculty of Science at The University of Melbourne, Australia. In addition, Sigfredo Fuentes is the international coordinator of the Vineyard of The Future initiative (VoF), which is an international collaboration that strives to establish a fully instrumented vineyard that uses the Internet of Things (IoT) for data capture and meaningful analysis of climate change in viticulture and enology in Australia, to transfer these technologies to all agricultural sectors.

He has over 30 projects and 216 scholarly works, both active and completed. He is working on two major projects: “Deep learning modeling for hyperspectral imagery” funded by the Australian Government Department of Defence and the Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space (P4S), which has the goal to develop plants to support long-term space missions to the Moon (2030) and Mars (2040) with the NASA.

His research efforts focus on the application of technology to plant physiology and viticulture, as well as in the areas of irrigation science, irrigation scheduling, remote sensing, and climate change. His work also focuses on the development of computer programs for agricultural research and applications, the creation of new methodologies to assess plant physiology and growth using image analysis and technology, and the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in agricultural, food, animal, and wine sciences.

Sigfredo Fuentes joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Digital Agriculture and Food Sciences for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

•  Ph.D., Plant Physiology, Western Sydney University
• Agronomist, University of Talca
• B.Sc., Agricultural Sciences, University of Talca
   

• Shin, M., Gonzalez Viejo, C., Tongson, E., Wiechel, T., Taylor, P. & Fuentes, S. (2023). Early detection of Verticillium wilt of potatoes using near-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning modeling. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 204 doi:10.1016/j.compag.2022.107567

• Harris, N., Gonzalez Viejo, C., Barnes, C. & Fuentes, S. (2022). Non-Invasive Digital Technologies to Assess Wine Quality Traits and Provenance through the Bottle. Fermentation, 9(1), pp. 10-10. doi:10.3390/fermentation9010010

• Fuentes, S., Gonzalez Viejo, C., Tongson, E., Dunshea, F., Dac, H. & Lipovetzky, N. (2022). Animal biometric assessment using non-invasive computer vision and machine learning are good predictors of dairy cows age and welfare: The future of automated veterinary support systems. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 10 doi:10.1016/j.jafr.2022.100388

• Ashfaq, W., Brodie, G., Fuentes, S. & Gupta, D. (2022). Infrared Thermal Imaging and Morpho-Physiological Indices Used for Wheat Genotypes Screening under Drought and Heat Stress. PLANTS-BASEL, 11(23), pp. 22-. doi:10.3390/plants11233269

• Dac, H. H., Gonzalez Viejo, C., Lipovetzky, N., Tongson, E., Dunshea, F. R. & Fuentes, S. (2022). Livestock Identification Using Deep Learning for Traceability. SENSORS, 22(21), pp. 19-. doi:10.3390/s22218256

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Dr. Sigfredo Fuentes is an associate professor in Digital Agriculture, Food and Wine Sciences (DAFW) at the School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences (SAFES) in the Faculty of Science at The University of Melbourne, Australia. In addition, Sigfredo Fuentes is the international coordinator of the Vineyard of The Future initiative (VoF), which is an international collaboration that strives to establish a fully instrumented vineyard that uses the Internet of Things (IoT) for data capture and meaningful analysis of climate change in viticulture and enology in Australia, to transfer these technologies to all agricultural sectors.

He has over 30 projects and 216 scholarly works, both active and completed. He is working on two major projects: “Deep learning modeling for hyperspectral imagery” funded by the Australian Government Department of Defence and the Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space (P4S), which has the goal to develop plants to support long-term space missions to the Moon (2030) and Mars (2040) with the NASA.

His research efforts focus on the application of technology to plant physiology and viticulture, as well as in the areas of irrigation science, irrigation scheduling, remote sensing, and climate change. His work also focuses on the development of computer programs for agricultural research and applications, the creation of new methodologies to assess plant physiology and growth using image analysis and technology, and the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in agricultural, food, animal, and wine sciences.

Sigfredo Fuentes joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Digital Agriculture and Food Sciences for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

•  Ph.D., Plant Physiology, Western Sydney University
• Agronomist, University of Talca
• B.Sc., Agricultural Sciences, University of Talca
   

• Shin, M., Gonzalez Viejo, C., Tongson, E., Wiechel, T., Taylor, P. & Fuentes, S. (2023). Early detection of Verticillium wilt of potatoes using near-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning modeling. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 204 doi:10.1016/j.compag.2022.107567

• Harris, N., Gonzalez Viejo, C., Barnes, C. & Fuentes, S. (2022). Non-Invasive Digital Technologies to Assess Wine Quality Traits and Provenance through the Bottle. Fermentation, 9(1), pp. 10-10. doi:10.3390/fermentation9010010

• Fuentes, S., Gonzalez Viejo, C., Tongson, E., Dunshea, F., Dac, H. & Lipovetzky, N. (2022). Animal biometric assessment using non-invasive computer vision and machine learning are good predictors of dairy cows age and welfare: The future of automated veterinary support systems. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 10 doi:10.1016/j.jafr.2022.100388

• Ashfaq, W., Brodie, G., Fuentes, S. & Gupta, D. (2022). Infrared Thermal Imaging and Morpho-Physiological Indices Used for Wheat Genotypes Screening under Drought and Heat Stress. PLANTS-BASEL, 11(23), pp. 22-. doi:10.3390/plants11233269

• Dac, H. H., Gonzalez Viejo, C., Lipovetzky, N., Tongson, E., Dunshea, F. R. & Fuentes, S. (2022). Livestock Identification Using Deep Learning for Traceability. SENSORS, 22(21), pp. 19-. doi:10.3390/s22218256

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Dr. Juan Ignacio Sánchez is professor and Knight-Ridder Byron Harless Eminent Scholar in the Department of Global Leadership and Management (GLaM) at the Florida International University. Earlier in his academic career at the same institution, he served as the founding chair of the GLaM department and faculty director of the Master of Science in Human Resource Management, where he designed and launched the master’s program, which is now ranked #2 by HR.com and has over 1,000 alumni, including the chief people officers of several Fortune 500 companies.

He has taught topics including organizational behavior, organizational design, staffing organizations, performance and talent management, HR effectiveness, and applied psychology training, among others.

Juan Ignacio Sánchez was vice president at Large of the Greater Miami Society for HRM (GMSHRM, now HR Miami) and was also elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He is currently serving on his fifth U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel. For the Federal Government of the United States, he was a panelist in the development of a competency model for infant and toddler caregivers for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (20 17). From 2011 to 2013, he was a Special Government Employee for the Occupational Information Development Advisory Panel (OIDAP), at the Social Security Administration, GSA 14.

Juan Ignacio Sánchez joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Organizational Behavior and Human Capital for the Business School and EGADE Business School.

• Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of South Florida
• M.Sc., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of South Florida
• Bachelor's degree, Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 
   

• Sanchez, J. I., Bonache, J., Paz-Aparicio, C., & Oberty, C. Z. (2022). Combining interpretivism and positivism in international business research: The example of the expatriate role. Journal of World Business, 101419.

• Sanchez, J. I. (2022). Who Opposes “Oposiciones”? A job-analytic approach to job-related public employee selection. Basque Journal of People and Public Organizations [Pertsonak eta Antolakunde Publikoak Kudeatzeko Euskal Aldizkaria= Revista Vasca de Gestión de Personas y Organizaciones Públicas], 22, 8-21.

• Wated, G., & Sanchez, J.I. (2021). Political Populism-to-Work Spillover in Latin America: Implications for Human Resources Management. In J. Trullen & J. Bonache (Eds.), Talent Management in Latin America. Pressing Issues and Best Practices, pp. 8-28. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN: 978-0-367-81990-3, ISBN: 978-1-032-04676-1.

• Campion, M.C., Schepker, D.J., Campion, M.A., Sanchez, J.I. (2020). Competency modeling: A theoretical and empirical examination of the strategy dissemination process. Human Resources Management, 59(3), 291-306.

• Spector, P., & Sanchez, J. (2018). Getting the Global Band Together: Best Practices in Organizing and Managing International Research Teams. In K. Shockley, W. Shen, & R. Johnson (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Global Work–Family Interface (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 230-246). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108235556.012

• Sanchez, J. I., & Lazrak, Y. (2017). The micro-foundations of global innovation: Disrupting the balance between centripetal and centrifugal forces. In S. Kundu, & S. Munjal (Eds.), Human Capital and Innovation: Examining the Role of Globalisation, pp. 73-90. Basignstoke, UK: Palgrave McMillan.

• Paustian-Underdahl, S. C., Fainshmidt, S., Sanchez, J. I., Misati, E., Zhao, Y., & Zhang, H. (2017). The Role of Economic Development and Perceived Growth Opportunities in Employee Reactions to M&As: A Study of the Merger Syndrome Across 29 Countries. Group & Organization Management, 42(2), 163-194.

• Tian, Q., & Sanchez, J. I. (2017). Does paternalistic leadership promote innovative behavior? The interaction between authoritarianism and benevolence. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47(5), 235-246.

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Dr. Juan Ignacio Sánchez is professor and Knight-Ridder Byron Harless Eminent Scholar in the Department of Global Leadership and Management (GLaM) at the Florida International University. Earlier in his academic career at the same institution, he served as the founding chair of the GLaM department and faculty director of the Master of Science in Human Resource Management, where he designed and launched the master’s program, which is now ranked #2 by HR.com and has over 1,000 alumni, including the chief people officers of several Fortune 500 companies.

He has taught topics including organizational behavior, organizational design, staffing organizations, performance and talent management, HR effectiveness, and applied psychology training, among others.

Juan Ignacio Sánchez was vice president at Large of the Greater Miami Society for HRM (GMSHRM, now HR Miami) and was also elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He is currently serving on his fifth U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel. For the Federal Government of the United States, he was a panelist in the development of a competency model for infant and toddler caregivers for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (20 17). From 2011 to 2013, he was a Special Government Employee for the Occupational Information Development Advisory Panel (OIDAP), at the Social Security Administration, GSA 14.

Juan Ignacio Sánchez joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Organizational Behavior and Human Capital for the Business School and EGADE Business School.

• Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of South Florida
• M.Sc., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of South Florida
• Bachelor's degree, Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 
   

• Sanchez, J. I., Bonache, J., Paz-Aparicio, C., & Oberty, C. Z. (2022). Combining interpretivism and positivism in international business research: The example of the expatriate role. Journal of World Business, 101419.

• Sanchez, J. I. (2022). Who Opposes “Oposiciones”? A job-analytic approach to job-related public employee selection. Basque Journal of People and Public Organizations [Pertsonak eta Antolakunde Publikoak Kudeatzeko Euskal Aldizkaria= Revista Vasca de Gestión de Personas y Organizaciones Públicas], 22, 8-21.

• Wated, G., & Sanchez, J.I. (2021). Political Populism-to-Work Spillover in Latin America: Implications for Human Resources Management. In J. Trullen & J. Bonache (Eds.), Talent Management in Latin America. Pressing Issues and Best Practices, pp. 8-28. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN: 978-0-367-81990-3, ISBN: 978-1-032-04676-1.

• Campion, M.C., Schepker, D.J., Campion, M.A., Sanchez, J.I. (2020). Competency modeling: A theoretical and empirical examination of the strategy dissemination process. Human Resources Management, 59(3), 291-306.

• Spector, P., & Sanchez, J. (2018). Getting the Global Band Together: Best Practices in Organizing and Managing International Research Teams. In K. Shockley, W. Shen, & R. Johnson (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Global Work–Family Interface (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 230-246). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108235556.012

• Sanchez, J. I., & Lazrak, Y. (2017). The micro-foundations of global innovation: Disrupting the balance between centripetal and centrifugal forces. In S. Kundu, & S. Munjal (Eds.), Human Capital and Innovation: Examining the Role of Globalisation, pp. 73-90. Basignstoke, UK: Palgrave McMillan.

• Paustian-Underdahl, S. C., Fainshmidt, S., Sanchez, J. I., Misati, E., Zhao, Y., & Zhang, H. (2017). The Role of Economic Development and Perceived Growth Opportunities in Employee Reactions to M&As: A Study of the Merger Syndrome Across 29 Countries. Group & Organization Management, 42(2), 163-194.

• Tian, Q., & Sanchez, J. I. (2017). Does paternalistic leadership promote innovative behavior? The interaction between authoritarianism and benevolence. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47(5), 235-246.

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Dr. Rob Roggema was a landscape-driven design and sustainable urban environments professor at three universities in the Netherlands and the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. He is a visiting professor in Landscape Urbanism at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland and was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Western Sydney University in Australia, and a Distinguished Global Professor at KEIO University in Japan.

He is the founder of Cittaideale, an office for adaptive design, spatial planning, and design research for regenerative urban environments and landscapes. Some of the design concepts he has developed are FoodRoofRio, a rooftop garden with an aquaponic system that provided food for families in the Cantagalo favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Moeder Zernike, a regional long-term regenerative plan for the northern part of the Netherlands; and Nature Rich Netherlands,
a national plan to convert Dutch land use to 50% nature while solving problems related to climate change impacts, nitrogen deposition, and housing.

For his Ph.D., he developed the Swarm Planning concept, a new method for planning and responding to climate adaptation and spatial design. Rob Roggema’s research interests are in creating innovative spatial solutions for regenerative urban landscapes. He has facilitated over 40 design charrettes in the Netherlands, Japan, Mongolia, China, Jordan, India, Australia, and New Zealand, engaging communities, academics, governments, and industries in complex design processes to address wicked problems.

Rob Roggema joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Professor in Regenerative Cultures for the School of Architecture, Art and Design.

• Ph.D., Swarm Planning: The development of a methodology to deal with climate adaptation, Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University & Research
• M.Sc., Landscape Architecture, Wageningen University & Research
   

• Roggema, R.; Chamski, R. The New Urban Profession: Entering the Age of Uncertainty. Urban Sci. 2022, 6, 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6010010

• Roggema, R. (2022). Design for Regenerative Cities and Landscapes: Rebalancing Human Impact and Natural Environment (Contemporary Urban Design Thinking) (English Edition). Springer.

• Roggema, Rob. (2021). TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urbanization. 10.1007/978-3-030-61977-0. 

• Roggema, Rob. (2020). Nature Driven Urbanism. 10.1007/978-3-030-26717-9. 

• Roggema, Rob. (2020). Designing Sustainable Cities. 10.1007/978-3-030-54686-1. 

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Dr. Rob Roggema was a landscape-driven design and sustainable urban environments professor at three universities in the Netherlands and the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. He is a visiting professor in Landscape Urbanism at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland and was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Western Sydney University in Australia, and a Distinguished Global Professor at KEIO University in Japan.

He is the founder of Cittaideale, an office for adaptive design, spatial planning, and design research for regenerative urban environments and landscapes. Some of the design concepts he has developed are FoodRoofRio, a rooftop garden with an aquaponic system that provided food for families in the Cantagalo favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Moeder Zernike, a regional long-term regenerative plan for the northern part of the Netherlands; and Nature Rich Netherlands,
a national plan to convert Dutch land use to 50% nature while solving problems related to climate change impacts, nitrogen deposition, and housing.

For his Ph.D., he developed the Swarm Planning concept, a new method for planning and responding to climate adaptation and spatial design. Rob Roggema’s research interests are in creating innovative spatial solutions for regenerative urban landscapes. He has facilitated over 40 design charrettes in the Netherlands, Japan, Mongolia, China, Jordan, India, Australia, and New Zealand, engaging communities, academics, governments, and industries in complex design processes to address wicked problems.

Rob Roggema joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Professor in Regenerative Cultures for the School of Architecture, Art and Design.

• Ph.D., Swarm Planning: The development of a methodology to deal with climate adaptation, Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University & Research
• M.Sc., Landscape Architecture, Wageningen University & Research
   

• Roggema, R.; Chamski, R. The New Urban Profession: Entering the Age of Uncertainty. Urban Sci. 2022, 6, 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6010010

• Roggema, R. (2022). Design for Regenerative Cities and Landscapes: Rebalancing Human Impact and Natural Environment (Contemporary Urban Design Thinking) (English Edition). Springer.

• Roggema, Rob. (2021). TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urbanization. 10.1007/978-3-030-61977-0. 

• Roggema, Rob. (2020). Nature Driven Urbanism. 10.1007/978-3-030-26717-9. 

• Roggema, Rob. (2020). Designing Sustainable Cities. 10.1007/978-3-030-54686-1. 

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Dr. Sergio Fajardo is a mathematician, professor, and politician. At the beginning of his career, he worked for different scientific institutions in Colombia, such as the National Council for Basic Sciences (transformed in 2019). Later on, in 2016 and 2019, he held the position of visiting professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States.

In 1999, he founded the civic movement Compromiso Ciudadano, with which he was elected mayor of Medellín for the 2004–2007 term with the highest number of votes registered at that time in the history of the city. His administration was characterized by a new form of public management, focused on citizenship, transparency, and social innovation, which resulted in the highest acceptance and popularity rates in Colombia. He led the greatest transformation of Medellín: from a city of inequality and violence to a global example of social change through education and urbanism.

From 2012 to 2015, he was governor of Antioquia, where he worked against inequality, violence, and corruption, and led its economic and social improvement. He was a candidate for the Colombian presidential elections in 2018 and 2022. In 2023, Sergio Fajardo co-founded the political party Dignidad y Compromiso.

As a mathematician, the central topics of his research were mathematical logic and the area of theory of probability models. In politics, his work has focused on urbanism, territorial development, education, and gender equality, to name a few.

Sergio Fajardo joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished University Professor in Public Leadership for the School of Social Sciences and Government and the School of Government and Public Transformation.

• Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Master's, Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• B.Sc., Mathematics, University of the Andes
   

• Fajardo, S. (2017). El poder de la decencia. Ideas sensatas para un país en busca de confianza. Colombia. Número de páginas: 202. https://hdl.handle.net/11285/652332

• Fajardo, Sergio & Keisler, H.. (2017). Model Theory of Stochastic Processes. 10.1017/9781316756126.

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Dr. Sergio Fajardo is a mathematician, professor, and politician. At the beginning of his career, he worked for different scientific institutions in Colombia, such as the National Council for Basic Sciences (transformed in 2019). Later on, in 2016 and 2019, he held the position of visiting professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States.

In 1999, he founded the civic movement Compromiso Ciudadano, with which he was elected mayor of Medellín for the 2004–2007 term with the highest number of votes registered at that time in the history of the city. His administration was characterized by a new form of public management, focused on citizenship, transparency, and social innovation, which resulted in the highest acceptance and popularity rates in Colombia. He led the greatest transformation of Medellín: from a city of inequality and violence to a global example of social change through education and urbanism.

From 2012 to 2015, he was governor of Antioquia, where he worked against inequality, violence, and corruption, and led its economic and social improvement. He was a candidate for the Colombian presidential elections in 2018 and 2022. In 2023, Sergio Fajardo co-founded the political party Dignidad y Compromiso.

As a mathematician, the central topics of his research were mathematical logic and the area of theory of probability models. In politics, his work has focused on urbanism, territorial development, education, and gender equality, to name a few.

Sergio Fajardo joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished University Professor in Public Leadership for the School of Social Sciences and Government and the School of Government and Public Transformation.

• Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Master's, Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• B.Sc., Mathematics, University of the Andes
   

• Fajardo, S. (2017). El poder de la decencia. Ideas sensatas para un país en busca de confianza. Colombia. Número de páginas: 202. https://hdl.handle.net/11285/652332

• Fajardo, Sergio & Keisler, H.. (2017). Model Theory of Stochastic Processes. 10.1017/9781316756126.

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