Amaya-Contreras, Ivan Mauricio

I received the B.Sc. degree in mechatronics engineering from Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, in 2008 and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from Universidad Industrial de Santander, in 2015. From 2016 to 2018, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Group with Strategic Focus in Intelligent Systems, at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Since 2018, I became a Research Professor at the School of Engineering and Sciences at the same institution. My research interests include numerical optimization of both, continuous and discrete problems, through the application of heuristics, metaheuristics, and hyper-heuristics. For the latter, he focuses on finding new ways of using feature transformations for improving performance. He is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers, the Mexican Academy of Computing, and the Association for Computing Machinery.