Jose Luis Marroquin studied his Bachelor in the School of Chemistry of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where he got his diploma of Chemical Engineering in 1968. He did his Master and PhD in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He worked in PEMEX (Mexican Petroleum), in the areas of Operations Research (programming, mathematics and simulation), data visualization and processing of geophysics information. Since1986 he has been working in the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas A.C. in Guanajuato México, in which he is a Senior Researcher (Investigador Titular) and the head of the Computer Science Department. His main interests are image processing, computer vision and automatic learning, fields in which he has published around 100 papers and 2 books. He is Associate Editor of the Journals Pattern Recognition and Computacion y Sistemas. He is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers level III