Our faculty

headshot of Carlos Gershenson-Garcia

Carlos Gershenson-Garcia

SUNY Empire Innovation Professor

School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
EB T09

Background

Carlos Gershenson obtained his BEng degree in computer engineering from the Fundación Arturo Rosenblueth, México (1996-2001). He then received his MSc degree in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems from the University of Sussex (2001-2002). He holds a PhD summa cum laude from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (2002-2007). His thesis was on “Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems.”

He was a postdoctoral fellow at the New England Complex Systems Institute (2007-2008) before joining the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México as a research professor (2008-2023). He was also a visiting professor at MIT, Northeastern University (2015-2016) and ITMO University (2015-2019), and a visiting scholar at the Santa Fe Institute (2022-2023).

Gershenson has more than 150 scientific publications in books, journals and conference proceedings, which have been cited more than 7000 times. He has given more than 300 presentations.

He has a wide variety of academic interests, including artificial intelligence, complex systems, self-organization, artificial life, and philosophy of science, with applications to healthcare, transportation, governance, education and cybersecurity.

Gershenson is editor-in-chief of Complexity Digest and member of the board of advisors for Scientific American. He has received numerous awards, including a Google Research Award in Latin America and the Audi Urban Future Award. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Mexican Academy of Informatics.

Gershenson joined the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering at Binghamton University as a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in 2023.

Google Scholar

Education

  • BEng in Computer Engineering, Fundación Arturo Rosenblueth, Mexico (2001)
  • MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, University of Sussex, UK (2002)
  • PhD in Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (2007)

Research Interests

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Complex systems
  • Self-organization
  • Artificial life
  • Philosophy of science
  • Healthcare
  • Transportation
  • Education

Related News Stories