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Applied Mathematics and Systems of the UNAM and his degree in Economics at the UNAM. Before joining Panamericana University, he worked as a specialist in economics, statistics, simulation, finance, and optimization, occupying different management positions in various public and private entities such as the Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Health. He has co-authored many research articles in science citation index journals, conference proceedings, presentations, and book chapters. Professor Rodríguez has supervised many MSc. and Ph.D. Students. He is a member of the National System of Researchers Level II of CONACYT in Mexico.







Dr. Pandian Vasant is a senior lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia and an Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IJEOE). He holds Ph.D. in Computational Intelligence (UNEM, Costa Rica), M.Sc. (University Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia, Engineering Mathematics) and B.Sc. (Hons, Second Class Upper) in Mathematics (University of Malaya, Malaysia). His research interests include Soft Computing, Hybrid Optimization, Innovative Computing and Applications. He has co-authored research articles in journals, conference proceedings, presentation, special issues guest editor, book chapters (248 publications indexed in Web of Science) and General Chair of EAI International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering in Penang, Malaysia (2016) and Bangkok, Thailand (2018). In the year 2009 and 2015, Dr. Pandian Vasant was awarded top reviewer and outstanding reviewer for the journal Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier). He has 27 years of working experiences at the universities. Currently he is an Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering, and Member of AMS (USA), NAVY Research Group (TUO, Czech Republic) and MERLIN Research Group (TDTU, Vietnam).







Igor Litvinchev received his M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Fizteh), Russia; Ph.D. in Systems Theory and Operations Research and Dr. Sci. (Habilitation) in Systems Modeling and Optimization from Computing Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is currently a Professor at Nuevo Leon State University (UANL), Mexico. His research is focused on large-scale systems modeling, optimization, and control with applications to interdisciplinary research. Professor Litvinchev is an author of 4 books and an editor of 8 more books published by Kluwer, Springer, and Elsevier. He published more than 90 research papers in leading international journals and served in Program and Organizing Committees for more than 50 international conferences. His research was supported by more than 30 grants from NATO Scienti¿c Affairs Division and European Community; ISF (USA) and RFBR (Russia); CNPq and FAPESP (Brasil); BRFBR (Belarus); CONACYT, PROMEP and PAICYT (Mexico). Professor Litvinchev is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and Mexican Academy of Sciences. He is a co-founder of Mexican Society of Operations Research and Mexican Logistics and Supply Chain Association.

Brenda Retana-Blanco studied a MSc in International Business at The Dublin Institute of Technology in Dublin, Irlanda, diploma in business at Macquarie University, Sydney Australia and a BS in Industrial Engineering at Anahuac University Mexico. She is committed, proactive, process-oriented and focused on execution. Brenda is particularly interested in developing academic projects, financial and insurance sector with the ability to relate and work in multicultural teams in Mexico and overseas. She is currently head of Industrial Engineering Department at Universidad Anahuac Mexico. It leads the national and international accreditations of the program. It is also responsible for updating the curriculum of the career, strengthening the knowledge lines of Operations Research, Data Mining, Manufacturing and Quality.