Cuen-Rochin, Saul

Dr. Saul Cuen-Rochin was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from CETyS University in Ensenada, Mexico, in 2006 and later pursued a Teaching Certificate in Automatic Control, Robotics, and Vision (ARV) from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain. He completed his M.Sc. in Physics at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) in 2012, followed by a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in 2019. In 2020, Dr. Cuen embarked on a postdoctoral position at TRIUMF, also in Vancouver. Since 2021, Dr. Cuen has been serving as a full-time professor and adjunct researcher at Tecnológico de Monterrey. He is a member of the Photonics and Quantum Systems research group within the School of Engineering and Sciences (EIC) and is also involved in the Nanotechnology Graduate Program. Early in his career, he was awarded a Research Internship by the Mexican Physical Society at the Free-Electron Laser facility at Jefferson Lab, managed by the U.S. Department of Energy in Virginia, USA. Dr. Cuen possesses extensive expertise in software development, data analysis, instrumentation, and sensor technology across various fields, including applied physics, high-energy physics, and agro-industrial automation. He is committed to promoting sustainability through the application of science and technology in sectors such as agriculture, medicine, and energy. Dr. Cuen has published over ten peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals and has delivered numerous lectures both nationally and internationally. With over a decade of experience, he has also consulted on postharvest automation projects in the USA, Mexico, and Honduras, utilizing AI techniques to enhance the real-time classification of fresh produce. Furthermore, Dr. Cuen is an active member of the National System of Researchers (CONACYT) in the Physics-Mathematics and Earth Sciences area. He collaborates with international research initiatives such as the Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K), a future high-energy physics neutrino experiment led by the University of Tokyo, and the PIENU experiment at TRIUMF, which conducts high-precision studies of rare pion decays to test the Standard Model of particle physics. Currently, he is co-directing doctoral theses at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG).