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Dr. Luis Enrique Sucar receives the Biblos Award of Merit 2023

Santa María Tonantzintla, Puebla, May 3, 2023. In recognition of his career, a few days ago Dr. Luis Enrique Sucar Succar, a researcher at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), received the 2023 Biblos Award of Merit in the scientific area. This award is given by the Biblos A.C. Award Association, the Lebanese Mexican Center and the Lebanese Embassy in Mexico to members of the Mexican community of Lebanese descent for significant contributions to the well-being and development of Mexico and humanity.

This year, in addition to Dr. Sucar, the teacher Nahib Chartouni Jalil also received the Biblos Award. The Prize was delivered last Thursday, April 27, at the Lebanese Center in Mexico City. The winners received a medal and diploma from the ambassador of the Republic of Lebanon in Mexico, Sami Nmeir, as well as the president of the Board of Directors of the Lebanese Center, Carlos Letayf Wehbe, and the teacher Alejandro Kuri Pheres, president of the Biblos Prize Association. A.C.

Dr. Luis Enrique Sucar Succar

Dr. Luis Enrique Sucar is an Electronics and Communications Engineer from the ITESM Monterrey campus, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, California, and a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London, England. He has been a researcher and professor at the Institute of Electrical Research and at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. He is currently a researcher at INAOE. He has completed research stays at Imperial College London, at the University of British Columbia, Canada, at INRIA, France, and at CREATE-NET, Italy.

He is a member of the National System of Level III Researchers, the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering. He is National Science Award. In 2019 he obtained the "Luis Rivera Terrazas" State Award, granted by the Government of the State of Puebla. In 2022 he obtained the distinction of Emeritus Researcher of the National System of Researchers (SNI), the highest recognition granted by said instance of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) to its members.

Dr. Sucar has been President of the Mexican Academy of Computing, the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence and the Mexican Federation of Robotics, member of the Advisory Committee of the IJCAI, Senior Member of the IEEE and Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition, Computational magazines. Intelligence and Computing and Systems. He has more than 400 publications in journals, books, and conferences, and has directed more than 90 bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses. He has three patents.
His research focuses on artificial intelligence, mainly on the development of probabilistic graphical models and their application in computer vision, robotics, intelligent tutoring systems, and biomedicine. He has been a pioneer in the development of Bayesian networks, highlighting his contributions in high-level vision modeling, and in the development of new models and techniques for temporal representations, information validation, reliability analysis, multimodal information recovery, recognition of gestures, modeling of the student in tutor systems and multidimensional and hierarchical classifiers.

In the field of technological development, he has participated in various projects with medical and industrial applications, including a semi-automatic endoscope, technology for diagnosis and help for power plant operators, projects for wind forecasting and diagnosis in wind farms, and a video surveillance system. intelligent.

Among his projects, Gesture Therapy stands out, a low-cost rehabilitation system that was accepted into the Leaders in Innovation Fellowships (LIF) program of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Great Britain. In 2021, the INAOE granted the licensing of the patent for the handle of said system to the company Aldawa Technologies, a "spin-off" of the INAOE founded by Dr. Sucar and his partner, Dr. Roberto Valdivia.