Hector Puga

Héctor J. Puga-Soberanes was born in Mexico, in 1960. He received the B.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics from the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico, in 1993, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics (optics) from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1995 and 2002, respectively. Since 2002, he has been with the Instituto Tecnológico de León. He has been a member of the National Researchers System, National Council of Science and Technology, Mexico, since 2004. His main research interests are optic metrology and intelligent systems, in particular, optimization with heuristics, metaheuristic, and hyper-heuristics. His current work includes SVMs and evolutionary algorithms.