Hector Zenil

Hector Zenil has a diverse and impressive work experience spanning various prestigious institutions. Hector is the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Oxford Immune Algorithmics since 2018, where they raised substantial funding and built a team of over 40 staff. Hector has also obtained ISO medical device certification and authored multiple patents in the medical devices field.

Hector has held roles at renowned institutions such as the University of Cambridge, Karolinska Institutet, The Alan Turing Institute, University of Oxford, Wolfram, Algorithmic Nature Lab - LABORES, National University of Singapore, University of Sheffield, and Carnegie Mellon University. In these positions, they have been a Senior Researcher, Laboratory Leader, Assistant Professor, Senior Research Associate, Head of Group, Visiting Professor, and Research Associate. Hector has worked on a wide range of topics including computational medicine, complexity science, AI, DNA research, and theorem proving.

Overall, Hector Zenil has established himself as a leading researcher and innovator in the fields of artificial intelligence, computational biology, and complexity theory.

Hector Zenil has a diverse education history in the field of mathematics and computer science. In 1997, they obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Hector then attended Brown University in 2005 to pursue a Wolfram Science School program, focusing on Computational Sciences. That same year, they also attended École normale supérieure and completed a Master's degree in Logic (LoPHISS). From 2006 to 2011, Zenil studied at the University of Lille 1 Sciences and Technology, where they earned a PhD in Theoretical Computer Science. Continuing their academic pursuits, Zenil joined Université Paris-Sorbonne in 2008 and received a Doctor of Philosophy and Epistemology (PhD) in Logic, completing their studies in 2015.