José Alfredo Sánchez Huitrón

Alfredo Sánchez is a professor of computer science and director of the Laboratory of Interactive and Cooperative Technologies at Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), Mexico. He holds MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. His research interests lie in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Natural User Interfaces and Smart Cities. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, a visiting scientist at the Center for Botanical Informatics of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and a visiting scholar at Shanghai University’s Institute of Smart Cities. Prof. Sánchez serves at the editorial board of the Journal of Internet Services and Applications as well as the International Journal of Digital Libraries. He chairs the Latin American Community of Human-Computer Interaction under ACM’s SIGCHI, and is co-founder of the Latin American Conference Series on Human-Computer Interaction (CLIHC). He also has served as president of the Mexican Computer Science Society and is a member of the National Researchers System.