CARLOS GERSHENSON

Carlos is a tenured research professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His PhD was on “Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems” at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Dutch-speaking Free University of Brussels. He’s currently using data from Mexico city’s transportation system to model contacts and spread of COVID-19. Carlos is part of UNAM’s Centre for Complexity Science (Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad –C3). His expertise include self-organizing systems, complexity, artificial life, information and evolution. He’s the leader of the Self-organizing Systems Lab, and was head  of the Computer Sciences Department of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas (IIMAS) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). I am also a researcher associated to the Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad (C3) of the UNAM. He’s currently a visiting professor at SENSEable City Lab, MIT, and at MOBS Lab in Northeastern. He’s an Editor-in-Chief of Complexity Digest and Complexity-at-Large Editor of Complexity, and a Council Member of the Complex Systems Society.

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