Katya Rodríguez Vázquez

Katya Rodríguez Vázquez is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas (IIMAS) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She holds a degree in Computer Engineering from UNAM and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Sheffield, focusing on multiobjective evolutionary algorithms in nonlinear system identification. Her research areas include evolutionary and bio-inspired algorithms, multi-criteria optimization, and parallel processing, with applications in hydraulic engineering, biology, economics, and more. Rodríguez Vázquez actively participates as a professor and tutor in the postgraduate programs in Computer Science and Systems Engineering at UNAM. She also serves as a referee for national and international journals and conferences related to her research interests. Recently, she has expanded her work into bioinformatics, organizing symposia on computational approaches to biological problems. She is a member of several prestigious academies, including the Mexican Academy of Sciences. On Coursera, she teaches courses such as "Cómputo evolutivo" and "Inteligencia artificial: proyecto final."