Rafael Batres

Prof. Batres is a professor in the School of Engineering and Sciences at Tecnologico de Monterrey. He is a great-grandson of Dr. Ignacio Prieto, known for his research on the bacteria responsible for Typhus.

His expertise includes supply chain management, modeling for decision making, operations management, business process modeling, business dynamics, material and product design, time-series forecasting, operating procedure synthesis, computer-based support for startup and shutdown operations, knowledge engineering, ontologies, metaheuristic optimization, machine learning, data mining, case-based reasoning, agent-based modeling, and lean thinking.

Rafael Batres received a BS in chemical engineering from the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and both a MEng and PhD in process systems engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1998, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. He also worked for over a year in France in the French Petroleum Institute (IFP) as a visiting scientist, where he coordinated a team in a European project that focused on the integration of batch control systems and fault diagnosis tools. From 2005 to 2014, Dr. Batres worked as an associate professor in the group of industrial systems engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Mexican Academy of Computer Science.