— Background
Professor Montiel is full-time researcher/professor of engineering at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). His research interest lies on the areas of Decision Analysis and Optimization Under Ambiguity. Recently he has been working on the applications of N-person cooperative games (negotiations) to electoral pooling. He holds a Ph. D. and a Post-Doc in operations research from the University of Texas at Austin (UT), a MSc. in Financial Engineering from Columbia University, and a MSc. in Management Sciences and Engineering from Stanford University. He was Head of the Ph. D. Program in Financial Sciences at EGADE Santa Fe. His teaching experience at UT, EGADE, and ITAM covers topics such as project management and planning, production systems, optimization, project valuation, engineering economics, and decision analysis; at a Doctoral, Masters and undergrad levels. In addition to his academic lectures, he teaches courses for industry managers as well as high school teachers. He is recipient of CONACYT, Fulbright and Chiles Foundation scholarships.
Luis is member of the Research National System (SNI) at Mexico and fully committed with the strengthening of Mexico system of education and research.