Dr. Moncayo is Associate Professor of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations at ITAM and member of the National System of Researchers of CONACyT. The University of Exeter (UK) awarded him a PhD in Engineering. His research focuses on the development of optimization techniques (operations research) to improve manufacturing and logistics systems, as well as the application of data analytics in these systems.

He is Full Time Researcher Professor. He graduated with honors from the Physics Engineering Undergraduate Program at ITESM campus Monterrey, has a Master in Theoretical Physics with cum laude honor from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

He worked as the Deputy Director of the Analytics area at Banorte Insurance and Pensions. He also worked in the Risk Analytics area at BBVA Bancomer constructing statistical and machine learning models for Credit Risk Management of different portfolios.

He is a full time professor at the Academic Department of Languages (DAL) at ITAM. He has a PhD and an MA in Literary Theory (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana); he also has a BA in Hispanic Literature (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). He has been teaching Hispanic Literature and Academic Writing Skills in Spanish since 1996. His research focuses on the relationship between rethoric, literary theory and philosopichal discourse in the context of the 20th century hispanic thinkers. He is the author of Nacer desde el sueño.

He has a bachelor’s degree in Spanish Language and Literature from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), a Master of Arts degree in Hispanic Philology from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Spain, and PhD in European Literature from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His academic interests are focused on the twentieth and twenty-first century Latin American Literature and in Travel Literature, and his work has been presented at conferences and published in academic journals.

He holds a Law Degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a Master Degree in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Theater theater, and a PhD in Spanish and Latin Americana Literatures, both from UNED, whith a two years research stay at El Colegio de México. Currently, he is a professor of Estrategias de Comunicación Escrita and Investigación y Redacción Jurídica at ITAM and collaborates as a researcher at Seminario de Tradiciones Populares of El Colegio de México. Since January 2016, he is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores in the category of “Candidate”.