Dr. Roger Z. Ríos
Professor
Electrical Engineering Program
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
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The Dead Optimizers Society
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| DOS Research Group - February 2020 |
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In Progress
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Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Optimization of Districting Problems in Microfinacial Institutions"
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Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Optimization of Locations Problems under Backup Coverage"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Optimization of Health Care Applications"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Stochastic Kidney Exchange Problems"
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Undergraduate Program in Software Technology Engineering, FIME, UANL
Thesis: "TBA"
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Undergraduate Program in Software Technology Engineering, FIME, UANL
Thesis: "TBA"
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Undergraduate Program in Software Technology Engineering, FIME, UANL
Thesis: "TBA"
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Undergraduate Program in Software Technology Engineering, FIME, UANL
Thesis: "TBA"
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Postdocs Supervised
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Project: "Location and Routing Optimization" and "Metaheuristics for Kidney Exchange Problems"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Project: "Discrete Optimization in Health Care Management"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Project: "Optimization of Public Transport Systems"
Co-supervised with Prof. Yasmín Á. Ríos
(Tec de Monterrey)
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Project: "Discrete Optimization in Forest Management"
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Tecnológico de Monterrey
Project: "Arc districting"
Co-supervised with Prof. José L. González
(Tec de Monterrey)
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Project: "Advanced Metaheuristics for Territory Design"
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PhD Students Graduated
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Efficient Methods for Solving Power System Operation Scheduling Challenges:
The Thermal Unit Commitment Problem with Staircase Cost and
the Very Short-term Load Forecasting Problem"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Modelos y Algoritmos de Optimización en Tiempo Real de Sistemas de
Transporte Público Basados en Autobuses"
Co-chaired with Prof. Yasmín A. Ríos
(Tec de Monterrey)
Award-winning thesis
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Doctoral Program in Intelligent Systems, Universidad de Las Américas Puebla
Thesis: "Dispersion-based Models and Algorithms for Districting Problems"
Co-chaired with Prof. Juan A. Díaz
(UDLAP)
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Industrial Engineering Doctoral Program, Tecnológico de Monterrey - Campus Toluca
Thesis: "Optimal Location of Specialized Healthcare Service Capacity across
Public Hospital Networks"
Co-chaired with Prof. Karla B. Valenzuela
(Tec de Monterrey - Campus Toluca)
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Models, Algorithms, and Heuristics for Multiobjective
Commercial Territory Design"
Co-chaired with Prof. José L. González
(Tec de Monterrey)
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Center for Manufacturing Systems, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Thesis: "Capacitated Fixed Cost Facility Location Problem with
Lead Time Choices"
Co-chaired with Prof. José Luis González
(Center for Quality and Manufacturing, Tecnológico de Monterrey)
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Graduate Program in Materials Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Optimización de un Sistema de Alimentación
para el Llenado de Moldes con Aleaciones de Aluminio"
Co-chaired with Prof. Martha P. Guerrero
(Graduate Program in Materials Engineering, UANL)
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MSc Students Graduated
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Potential Impact of Implementing a Kidney Exchange Program in Mexico:
Case Studies from Mexican Databases"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Estudio de un Problema de Localización de Servicios de
Emergencia con Cobertura de Respaldo"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Assessing the Impact of Kidney Paired Donation in Mexico"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Formulations and Algorithms for the Kidney Exchange Problem"
Co-chaired with Prof. Jonathan F. Bard (University of Texas at Austin)
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Optimal Location of Car Wreck Adjusters"
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M.Sc. Program in Quality and Productivity, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Thesis: "Optimización de la Cosecha para un Bosque Mixto
mediante Programación Dinámica"
Co-chaired with Prof. José Luis González
(Tecnológico de Monterrey) and
Prof. Óscar Aguirre (Department of Forest Science, UANL)
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Optimización del Problema de p-Centro Capacitado"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Una Metaheurística para un Problema de Carga y Descarga
en la Repartición de Bebidas Embotelladas"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Un Esquema Integrado para la Administración de Recursos de
Contención de Incendios Forestales desde un Enfoque
Estocástico"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Un Problema de Gestión Forestal con Requerimientos de
Adyacencia en Unidades Territoriales"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Un Marco Integrado de Gestión para el Control y
Gestión de Incendios Forestales"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Un Método de Búsqueda Tabú con
Oscilación Estratégica para la Optimización de
Diseño de Zonas de Recolección de Aparatos
Electrodomésticos"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Un Esquema de Acotamiento Dual para un Problema de Diseño
Territorial"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Diseño de Territorios Comerciales con Costos de Ruteo"
Award-winning thesis
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Diseño de Planes Eficientes para la Segmentación de
Clientes con Múltiples Atributos"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Un Algoritmo de Localización-Asignación para el
Diseño Eficiente de Planes Territoriales de Uso Comercial"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Un Procedimiento de Búsqueda Voraz Aleatorizado y
Adaptativo para el Diseño Eficiente de
Territorios de Atención Comercial con
Requerimientos de Asignación Conjunta"
Award-winning thesis
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Un Procedimiento de Búsqueda Miope Adaptativa y
Aleatorizada para la Definición de Territorios de
Atención Comercial"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Operación Eficiente de Redes de Transporte de
Gas Natural mediante el Método de Gradiente Reducido
Generalizado"
Award-winning thesis
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Una Metodología de Solución basada en
Programación Dinámica No Secuencial y Búsqueda
Tabú para la Operación Eficiente de Sistemas
de Transporte de Gas Natural en Estado Estable"
Award-winning thesis
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Modelos de Optimización Entera Mixta No Lineal
en Sistemas de Transporte de Gas Natural"
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Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Pre-procesamiento de un Problema de Optimización
de Redes de Gas Natural"
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BSc Students Graduated
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Undergraduate Program in Software Technology Engineering, FIME, UANL
Thesis: "A Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure for a Territory Design Problem
Arising in Microfinancial Institutions"
Award-winning thesis
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Undergraduate Program in Software Technology Engineering, FIME, UANL
Thesis: "A heuristic for the α-Neighbor p-Center Problem"
Award-winning thesis
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Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, UANL
Thesis: "Evaluación de Métricas de Dispersión
en Sistemas Territoriales"
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School of Physics and Mathematics, UANL
Thesis: "Evaluación de la Calidad de Métodos de
Optimización Exacta para Modelos de Diseño
Territorial"
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Foreign Interns
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U. of Twente, Netherlands
Project: "Solving a Traveling Salesman Problem with
Time Windows using Tabu Search"
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Summer Kids
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Industrial Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Comalcalco
Project: "Forest Road Network Optimization"
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Industrial Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Colima
Project: "Medical Resident Scheduling"
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Industrial Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Culiacán
Project: "Optimal Ambulance Location"
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Industrial Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Toluca
Project: "Optimizing Shipping Costs for a Small Company"
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Industrial Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Culiacán
Project: "Sensitiviy Analysis for a Transport Resource Assignment Problem"
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Business Management Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia
Project: "Sensitiviy Analysis for a Transport Resource Assignment Problem"
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Physical and Mathematical Sciences
U. Michoacana de San Nicolás Hidalgo
Project: "A GAMS Model for Optimal Fire management Resource Deployment"
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Computer Systems Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Tepic
Project: "The PARADISEO Framework for Metaheuristic
Implementation"
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Industrial Engineering
U. del Valle de México - Toluca
Project: "Diseño Territorial"
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Industrial Engineering
U. Autónoma de Tamaulipas - Tampico-Madero
Project: "Un Modelo basado en GAMS para el Diseño de Territorios"
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Industrial Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Los Mochis
Project: "GAMS para la Solución Inicial del Problema de
Diseño
Territorial con Múltiples Restricciones de Balanceo y Restricciones
de Asignación Conjunta"
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Industrial Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro
Project: "Agrupamiento de Puntos
de Venta en una Red de Distribución"
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Computer Systems Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Tepic
Project: "Minimización del
Tiempo Total de Retraso al Secuenciar
Líneas de Flujo mediante Búsqueda Local"
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Computer Systems Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro
Project: "Minimización del Número de
Tareas Tardías al Secuenciar Líneas de Flujo"
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Computer Systems Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Tepic
Project: "Problemas de Secuenciamiento Óptimo de
Líneas de Flujo en Sistemas de Manufactura"
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Administrative Computational Systems
in progress U. Autónoma de Coahuila - Torreón
Project: "Problema de Máxima Cobertura de Ubicaciones"
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Industrial Engineering
U. de Guadalajara - Lagos de Moreno
Project: "Optimización Inteligente de Redes de
Transporte de Gas Natural"
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Computer Systems Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Project: "Sistema de Redes de Tuberías de Gas
Natural en Estado Estable"
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Computer Systems Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Project: "Sistema de Redes de Tuberías de Gas
Natural en Estado Estable"
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Computer Systems Engineering
U. Autónoma de Tamaulipas - Reynosa
Project: "Optimización Inteligente de Redes de
Transporte de Gas Natural"
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Computer Systems Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro
Project: "Optimización Inteligente de Redes de
Transporte de Gas Natural"
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UANL Summer Kids
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Math (FCFM)
Project: "A mathematical model for locating hospitals"
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Physics (FCFM)
Project: "A real-world application of the p-median problem"
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Actuary Science (FCFM)
Project: "Basics of Stochastic Programming"
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High School 7 - East
Project: "The Traveling Salesman Problem"
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High School 25
Project: "The Transportation Problem"
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Mathematics (FCFM)
Project: "The Transportation Problem"
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Mathematics (FCFM)
Project: "The p-Median Problem"
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High School 15 Florida
Project: "The Traveling Salesman Problem"
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High School 7
Project: "Heuristics for The Traveling Salesman Problem"
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Aeronautical Engineering (FIME)
Project: "An Optimization Model for Fire Management"
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Mathematics (FCFM)
Project: "Evaluación de método de ramificación
y acotamiento para un problema de diseño territorial"
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Mathematics (FCFM)
Project: "Un Modelo Basado en GAMS para un Problema de Diseño
de Territorios de Ventas"
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System Management Engineering (FIME)
Project: "Administrando Capacidad y Flujo en Parques de Diversiones"
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System Management Engineering (FIME)
Project: "Modelos de Programación Entera"
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High School 9
Project: "Heurísticas para Problemas de
Optimización Combinatoria"
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High School 7
Project: "Modelando Problemas de Dieta mediante
Programación Lineal"
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High School 7
Project: "Modelando Problemas de Dieta mediante
Programación Lineal"
Revised: 11 / Jan / 2026