David Escobar Castillejos

Professor David Escobar-Castillejos earned his bachelor’s degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from Tec de Monterrey’s Puebla Campus, with a specialization in Applied Robotics. He continued his education and completed his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences at Tec de Monterrey’s Mexico City Campus. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting researcher at Purdue University (2014 and 2016). He subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College London, where he was awarded a Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) visa by the UK government and was named an International Newton Fellow by the Royal Academy of Medical Sciences.

Since January 2021, he has been a full-time professor and researcher in the Computer Science Department at the School of Engineering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana ) in Mexico City. In January 2023, he assumed the position of Chair of the Computer Science Department. He is a Level 1 researcher with CONACYT.

He is a member of the Cyber Learning and Data Science Lab at Tec de Monterrey CDMX and the Permanent Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation in the Southeast (FOROCYT), and director of the iOS Development Lab at the Universidad Panamericana.