Affiliations

Academic & Industry Positions

• Founder & CEO — Algocyte | Oxford Immune Algorithmics Ltd, a MedTech AI spin-out from King's College London, further developed in the Cambridge ecosystem and originally incubated at Oxford.
• Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine / King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence — King's College London
• Research Associate Member, Cancer Research Group — The Francis Crick Institute
• Senior Researcher, Machine Learning Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology — University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
• Lab Leader / Assistant Professor in Algorithmic Complexity and Network Theory, Algorithmic Dynamics Lab, Unit of Computational Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine — Karolinska Institute & SciLifeLab, Stockholm, Sweden
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy — Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US
• Senior Researcher / ISA Innovate UK BridgeAI Advisor — The Alan Turing Institute, the UK National Institute for Data Science and AI, British Library, London, UK
• Senior Researcher & Faculty Member, Structural Biology Group, Department of Computer Science — University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Research Associate in Behavioural Complexity, Behavioural and Evolutionary Theory Lab, Department of Computer Science / Kroto Research Institute — University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
• Senior Research Associate, Special Projects (Office of the CEO, S. Wolfram) — Wolfram Research, Urbana–Champaign, IL, US
• Payload Team Member, Animal Behavior in Microgravity, NASA Mars Gravity Biosatellite — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US

Education

• PhD Logic, Philosophy and Epistemology (highest honours with congratulations by the jury) — University of Paris / Panthéon-Sorbonne / ENS Ulm / CNRS, Paris, France. Examining committee: J. Mosconi, J.P. Delahaye, B. Cooper, A. Adamatzky and C. Imbert.
• M.Phil./Res. Logic (LoPHISS) — University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), École Nationale Supérieure & CNRS, Paris, France. Supervisor: J. Dubucs.
• PhD Theoretical Computer Science (highest honours) — University of Lille, Lille, France. Examining committee: J.P. Delahaye, G. Chaitin, S. Grigorieff, P. Mathieu and H. Zwirn.
• PGCert in Nanotechnology for Medicine (1st year Masters) — University of Oxford
• BSc Mathematics — National University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico. Supervisor: F. Hernández-Quiroz.

Member of the Following Societies and Organisations

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine — FRSM (since 2021)
• Board trustee, British Society for Research on Ageing (2023–2026)
• London Mathematical Society (elected member in 2015)
• The Oxford Invariants Society — Oxford math students society (lifetime)
• Oxford University Scientific Society — OUSS (lifetime)
• Cambridge Networks Network — University of Cambridge
• Foundational Questions Institute, FQXi (lifetime)
• Computability in Europe (lifetime)

Students (Co)Supervision

• Santiago Hernandez — UNAM (Masters, PhD and postdoc)
• Felipe Abrahão — University of Campinas & National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil (PhD and postdoc)
• Zoe Leyva Acosta — UNAM (PhD)
• Abicumaran Uthamacumaran — Concordia University, Department of Physics, Montreal, Quebec, & McGill University, McGill Genome Center, Majewski Lab, Canada (Masters)
• Eduardo Acuña Yeomans — UNAM (Masters)
• Marco Vladimir Lemus Yañez — UNAM (PhD)
• Daniel Wilson-Nunn — University of Warwick, UK (Summer)
• Luis Felipe Benitez Lluis — UNAM (Masters)
• Ronnie Rodrigues Pereira — Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden (Master's project)
• Liliana Badillo — former student of Barry Cooper (postdoc)
• Yue Deng — Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden (Masters)
• Alberto Hernandez — UNAM (PhD)
• Jakub Olczak — Karolinska Institutet & Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden (Summer)
• Alyssa Adams — Arizona State University, Tempe, US (Summer)
• Victor Zamora Gutierrez — UNAM (Masters)
• Yanbo Zhang — USTC, China (today at ASU, US)
• Victor Guiochin — KAUST

Selected Online Presentations (SlideShare)

• Graph Spectra through Network Complexity Measures: Information Content of Eigenvalues
• Fractal Dimension of Space-time Diagrams and the Runtime Complexity of Small Turing Machines
• Information Content of Complex Networks
• L'approche algorithmique de l'aléatoire
• A Numerical Method for the Evaluation of Kolmogorov Complexity: An alternative to lossless compression algorithms
• Fractal Dimension versus Computational Complexity
• Information Theory and Programmable Medicine
• Cognition, Information & Subjective Computation
• Algorithmic Information Theory and Computational Biology
• Towards a stable definition of Algorithmic Randomness
• Yanbo Zhang — Complexity and Computation in Nature: How can we test for artificial life? (China)

Organising, Reviewing & Committee Memberships

Expert scientific evaluator / reviewer for

• 5th World Conference on Complex Systems (WCCS24), Morocco, 2024.
• Royal Society Newton International Fellowships, Royal Society, London, UK, 2018.
• The Leverhulme Trust, UK, 2018.
• The National Science Foundation (NSF), USA, 2012.
• The European Commission (FP7 and H2020 proposals including Marie Curie) since 2011, participated in 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
• CONICYT (Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica), Chilean government, 2009.
• The National Fund for Scientific Research FWO — Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek — Vlaanderen (FWO-expert), Flanders, Belgium, 2015.
• The Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) annual essay contest, 2012–2015.

Peer reviewer for journals

Theoretical Computer Science; Fundamenta Informaticae; Complex Systems; Nonlinearity; Information Processing Letters; Discrete Applied Mathematics; International Journal of Unconventional Computing; Natural Computing; New Journal of Physics; PLoS One; Frontiers; Philosophies; Biosystems; Entropy.

Book and paper reviewer

For the ACM Computing Reviews (more than 25 reviews published, some featured as selected reviews and selected reviewer).

Guest Editor of journal special issues

• Seminars in Developmental Cell Biology (Elsevier) — special issue on information theory applied to molecular biology
• Information (MDPI) — special issue on the Physics of Information

Invited editorial board member of

• Frontiers (a Nature group journal) in Robotics and AI (specialty: computational intelligence)
• Springer Book Series on Emergence, Complexity and Computation in Nature
• 3rd Managing Editor of Complex Systems (founded by Stephen Wolfram, 1987) — since 2017
• Associate Editor — Theoretical Computer Science, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Complexity

National science bodies

• Member of the national body of researchers SNI, CONACYT (SNI II)
• Member of the Registro CONACYT de Evaluadores Acreditados (RCEA) — Mexican National Science Council

Committee member, chair or organiser of

• ASCAT 2023 — Second Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology, 2023
• WorldCist'23 — 11th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
• AUTOMATA 2022 — 28th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems
• COMPLEX NETWORKS 2020 — Ninth International Conference on Complex Networks & Their Applications
• AUTOMATA 2020 — 26th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems
• ALife 2020
• SSCI 2019 — IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence
• AUTOMATA 2019 — 25th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems
• ALIFE 2019 — 2019 Conference on Artificial Life
• SOI-WS-V2 — Study Of Information, World Scientific Vol. 2
• LOD 2018 — 4th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science
• SE4COG 2018 — 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Cognitive Services
• ALIFE 2018 — 2018 Conference on Artificial Life
• AUTOMATA 2018 — 24th Annual International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems
• TICTTL 2011 — Third International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic
• PAAMS'12-ss — 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (special sessions)
• MOD 2017 — 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization & Big Data
• CiE 2017 — Computability in Europe 2017
• ECAL 2017 — 14th European Conference on Artificial Life
• ALIFE 2016 — 15th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems
• ICNSC 2016 — 13th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control
• SITIS 2015 — 11th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems
• ASDS 2015 — Architecting Self-Managing Distributed Systems
• RaR-HAaM-2015 — Representation and Reality: Humans, Animals and Machines
• CCS'15 — Conference on Complex Systems '15
• CiE 2015 — Computability in Europe 2015
• FCT 2015 — 20th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory
• AUTOMATA 2015
• IWBBIO 2015 — 3rd International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering
• ECAL 2015 — 13th European Conference on Artificial Life
• ROR / AISB-50 Symposium — Representation of Reality: Humans, Animals and Machines / AISB-50
• SITIS 2013 — 9th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems
• TPNC 2013 — 2nd International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing
• MCU 2013 — Machines, Computations and Universality 2013
• ALIFE 14 — 14th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems
• ECAL 2013 — 12th European Conference on Artificial Life
• SMLC 2013 — Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions
• CiE 2013 — Computability in Europe 2013
• Turing 2014 — The Turing Guide
• ECCS'13 — European Conference on Complex Systems 2013
• JETAI 2013 — Journal for Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
• PAAMS'13 Special Sessions
• ISCS'13 — 2013 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems
• TIC2 — Turing in Context II
• ECCS'12 Satellites — European Conference on Complex Systems 2012, Satellite Meetings
• NC @ AISB/IACAP 2012 — AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012, Symposium on Natural Computing
• Wolfram 10 — Irreducibility and Computational Equivalence: Wolfram Science 10 Years After the Publication of A New Kind of Science
• WCSCM 2011 — Workshop on Complex Systems as Computing Models
• P&C 10 — 3rd International Workshop on Physics and Computation
• TURING RESEARCH 2012 — Turing Centenary Research Fellowship and Scholar Competition
• ISP 2012 — Images: Content Recognition Classification
• Turing-100 — The Alan Turing Centenary
• First Turing Centenary Advisory Committee (2007) — invited by the late Prof. S. Barry Cooper, alongside Dermot Turing (Alan Turing's nephew); the committee led to Alan Turing's posthumous pardon and inspired the film The Imitation Game.

Awards & Grants

• Charles François Prize — International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS), for his work on understanding the complexity of living systems.
• Swedish Research Council grant worth 3,690,000 SEK (~$0.5M USD).
• Swedish Wenner-Gren Center Foundation for Scientific Research — €10,000.
• Selected young researcher to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, to interact with Fields, Abel and Turing prize winners at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
• John Templeton Foundation grant worth USD $180,000 for the project on Habitable Zones of Complexity Measures, investigating the interplay of complexity in causal evolving networks.
• Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) grant worth USD $40,000 plus mini-grants totalling ~$10K USD via the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, in the context of "The Nature of Computation and the Physics of Information", "Computation and Biology" and "Computation and Time" (FQXi-MGA-1316, 2011-93849 (4661), FQXi-MGA-1212), 2012–2014.
• Appointed member of the National Researchers Body (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores — SNI) of the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACyT), 2013.
• Winner — Computational Imagery category, "2011 Kroto Institute Scientific Image Competition". Image entitled Visualising the Computational Universe: Runtime Space in a Peano Curve, 2011.
• 3rd Place Prize — "Reality: Digital or Analog?" Contest 2011, awarded by the Foundational Questions Institute (essay title: "The World is Either Algorithmic or Mostly Random"); announced at the World Science Festival, NYC, 2011.
• Travel support by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science through the University of Leeds, 2012.
• Bourse aux jeunes chercheurs — Comité National Français d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, 2011.
• Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (bourse de mobilité aires culturelles), University of Paris, 2007.
• Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) Travel Grant Award (CiE 06, Swansea UK).
• NSF and the New England Complex Institute (NECSI) — ICCS06, Boston, USA.
• Université de Lille III — Kurt Gödel: The Writings, Maison de la Recherche, Lille, France, 2006.
• Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK — visiting fellow, Workshop LAAW04, Wolfson Court, Girton College, 2006.
• Masters and PhD fellowship from CONACYT and the French Ministry of Education — €60K, 2005–2011.
• Grants as PI / senior researcher — Swedish Research Council (VR), John Templeton Foundation, Silicon Valley Foundation, DARPA BTO.
• Kroto Institute Award · UK Department of International Trade · Etihad Artificial Intelligence competition (beating Microsoft and Accenture) · 3rd Prize "The Next Unicorn", Ibiza Tech Forum.
• French citizenship granted by the President of France under a policy of academic excellence (2011); also holds Mexican and British nationalities.