Carlos Gershenson
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Carlos Gershenson | |
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| Born | 29 September 1978 |
| Known for | Research on Self-Organization, Complexity Digest |
| Awards | Team Mexico City, Audi Urban Future Award 2014,[1] Google Research Award for Latin America 2015 (among other 12 winning teams),[2] Cátedra de Investigación Marcos Moshinsky para Jóvenes Científicos 2017, área de Matemáticas,[3] Reconocimiento Distinción Universidad Nacional para Jóvenes Académicos, en el Área de Investigación en Ciencias Exactas, 2017.[4] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Complex systems, Artificial life, Computer science |
| Institutions | Binghamton University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Free University of Brussels |
| Doctoral advisor | Francis Heylighen, Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe |
| Other academic advisors | José Negrete Martínez, Inman Harvey, Yaneer Bar-Yam |
| Doctoral students | Luis Enrique Cortés Berrueco, Gustavo Carreón, Jorge Zapotecatl, Dante Pérez Méndez. |
| Website | Official website  |
Carlos Gershenson (born September 29, 1978) is a SUNY Emprire Innovation Professor at Binghamton University [5] and president of the Complex Systems Society (2024–2027). He was a tenured professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His academic interests include self-organizing systems, complexity, and artificial life.
Gershenson was born in Mexico City. He studied a BEng in computer engineering at the Arturo Rosenblueth Foundation in Mexico City in 2001 and a MSc in evolutionary and adaptive systems at the University of Sussex.[6] He received his PhD at the Centrum Leo Apostel of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium in 2007, on "Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems", under the supervision of Francis Heylighen. He was a postdoc with Yaneer Bar-Yam at the New England Complex Systems Institute.[5]
He is a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at the Systems Science and Industrial Engineering Department in Binghamton University. He was a research professor (investigador) at the Computer Science Department of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Applicadas y en Sistemas (IIMAS) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México from 2008 to 2023, where he was the head of the Computer Science Department from 2012 to 2015.[7]
He was also a visiting professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Northeastern University and has also been editor-in-chief of Complexity Digest since 2009. He has been a member of the board of advisers at Scientific American.[8]
