Talks
Conference presentations, invited talks, outreach, and media.
Talks are listed newest first. The same list appears in my CV.
Conference presentations
2026
Keynote: Reescalamiento y pérdida de población en centros urbanos de MéxicoMérida, Mexico
6.º Congreso Internacional de Estudios sobre la Ciudad (PUEC, UNAM)
2026
[Talk title]Mexico City, Mexico
22nd International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH), International Society for Urban Health
2026
Developing and validating spatial indicators of cycling access and connectivity across diverse urban contexts globallyMérida, Mexico
International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) Congress 2026
- Co-author; with M. Abdollahyar, C. Higgs, A. Jafari, and the GOHSC cycling working group.
2026
Urban scaling and population drift: The case of MexicoTurin, Italy
CS2Italy: Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
2026
Poster: A preference-based urban expansion simulator for housing and employment growth: Methods and case study in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area, MexicoTurin, Italy
CS2Italy: Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
- With N. Cadavid-Aguilar, S. Gutiérrez-Bernal, and U. Salazar De Urquidi.
2025
Assessing cell phone data for home–work mobility analysis: Evidence from the Mexico City Metropolitan AreaLondon, UK
International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM)
- With N. Cadavid-Aguilar and R. Ponce-Lopez; presented by R. Figueroa-Soriano.
2025
Building a multi-temporal urban population grid for Mexico: The why and the howLondon, UK
International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM)
- With R. Figueroa-Soriano, who presented.
2024
Imputing informal workers for transportation modelling in Latin America by the use of machine learning techniquesBogotá, Colombia
World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR)
- With C. Maia de Souza, A. A. Domínguez-Cristerna, R. Ponce-Lopez, and E. J. Miller.
2023
Interactive dashboard to characterize urban sprawl in Latin America based on SLEUTHMontréal, Canada
International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM)
- With R. Ponce-Lopez, J. A. Torre, A. Vazquez Brust, M. A. Scetta, and C. Piedrafita.
2022
An implementation of SLEUTH as an open platform for doing scenario planning to predict urban growthMexico City, Mexico
Annual Meeting of the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU)
- With R. Ponce-Lopez.
Invited talks and outreach
2026
Scaling and population loss in Mexican urban centresMexico City, Mexico
Presentation of the study to researchers from El Colegio de México and UNAM, with commentary by Diane Davis (Harvard GSD); Tecnológico de Monterrey
- With R. Ponce-Lopez.
2026
Scaling and population loss in Mexican urban centersMexico City, Mexico
Research Seminar, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2025
Dinámicas de población al interior de 69 zonas metropolitanas de México con relación al modelo urbano vigenteMexico City, Mexico
Invited speaker, Academic Advisory Council (Consejo Consultivo Académico) of INEGI, second session of 2025
2025
Cuando el desarrollo separa: complejidad económica y segregación urbana en MéxicoSan Pedro Garza García, Mexico
Data Day Monterrey 2025, Software Guru
- With F. Gómez Zaldívar.
2025
Cuando el desarrollo separa: complejidad económica y segregación urbana en MéxicoMérida, Mexico
MeriData meetup
2025
Cuando el desarrollo separa: complejidad económica y segregación urbana en MéxicoYucatán, Mexico
Engineering Week (Semana de Ingeniería), Universidad Politécnica de Yucatán
2024
Despoblación de los centros urbanos en México
Research Seminar, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2024
Sistema de Información Urbano Metropolitano: la expansión urbana de Monterrey en datos, hacia una discusión informadaSan Pedro Garza García, Mexico
Data Day Monterrey 2024, Software Guru
2024
URSA, herramienta open source para la planificación urbanaMérida, Mexico
ConCiencia Social Mérida (Data-Pop Alliance), CEPHCIS-UNAM
2023
URSA: sistema de apoyo para la planificación urbanaPuebla, Mexico
Urban Open Day, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2023
Aprenda a implementar la herramienta de código abierto Predicción de Crecimiento Urbano
Code for Development workshop, Inter-American Development Bank (online)
- Co-presenter.
2023
Presentation of the URSA interactive dashboard
Tec Science Summit, cities track, Tecnológico de Monterrey
- With R. Ponce-Lopez.
2022
pySleuth
Workshop of Tecnológico de Monterrey and the University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute (online)
2021
Calificación automática con Jupyter, Nbgrader y GitHub Classroom
1.er Congreso de Innovación en la Práctica y Enseñanza de las Disciplinas Científicas, Sociales y Humanas, Colegio de Bachilleres del Estado de Yucatán
- With D. Gamboa Angulo.
2019
Forest fire prediction in YucatánMérida, Mexico
National Meeting of the Intel Innovation Labs Network (Red de Laboratorios de Innovación Intel)
Media
2026
Press coverage of Scaling and population loss in Mexican urban centres
- Interviewed in “Mexican cities are expanding towards the periphery, but its centers are increasingly empty,” TecScience, August 2026 (Spanish).
- Reported by UDG TV, NTR Guadalajara, and Libera Radio, August 2026.
2026
Video profile, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2026
TecScience, April 2026; interviewed on the Global Urban Heat Vulnerability Index
2024
TecScience, Tecnológico de Monterrey
- Feature on a mobility simulation tool for Monterrey; credited, with A. Romero, for key implementation work.
2024
Blog post with R. Ponce-Lopez, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey