Juan Manuel Ahuactzin

Juan Manuel Ahuactzin is the Research & Development Director at Promagnus Company. He has over 20 years’ experience driving top scientific and technological research projects and over 10 years’ experience in systems analysis, design, and industry development. He has a solid background as a teacher and mentor in higher education. He has acquired experience in Bayesian modeling, data mining,
machine learning, optimization techniques, and geometric reasoning along in his career. J.M. Ahuactzin has extensive and applicable knowledge in diagnosis and prediction under uncertainty, decision and risk analysis, smart cities, the internet of things, robotics, and health informatics. Besides, he is interested in the techniques of creativity, innovation, and Design Thinking. He is the author and co-author of several journal articles and book chapters, mainly in robotics and applied Bayesian reasoning. Along with his colleagues at INRIA, he is co-author of the book “Bayesian Programming” published by CRC Press.
• He received his Bachelor’s degree in computer systems engineering from Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) Mexico in 1989.
• He obtained the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, in 1991 and 1994.
• During 1994-95, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the robotics group at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada. He continued to be an associate researcher at SFU during the summers from 1996 to 1999.
• From 1995 to 1999, J.M. Ahuactzin had a permanent Computer Systems Engineering Department position at UDLAP.
• From January 2000 to 2005, he was a researcher at INRIA Rône-Alpes, France, where he participated in several European research projects.
• J.M. Ahuactzin is cofounder of Probayes (spin-offs of INRIA) in France and Probayes Americas in Mexico (now Promagnus). At the first company, he was the Research Director from 2005 to February 2011; at Probayes Americas, he was CEO from 2010 to May 2015. Probayes was acquired by La Poste (France) in 2016.
• From May 2015 to June 2020, he was the innovation program manager at T-Systems Mexico.
• Dr. Ahuactzin is passionate about academia; he is partial time course lecturer at Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), campus Puebla and at Universidad de las Américas Puebla. Juan Manuel Ahuactzin is a founding member of the Mexican Academy for Computing.