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Academic Background

• BSc in Physics - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• MSc in Computer Science - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• MSc in Complexity Science - Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad México
• Ph.D. student (Biomedical Sciences) - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (at present)

Work in progress

• Ph.D. Main Project: Computational methods for searching functional communities in Gene Regulatory Networks (GRN).
• Review and comparison of community detection methods applied to GRN.
• Community detection methods applied to Biological Networks (GNR and miRNAs Networks in several fenotipes and biological models).
• Enrichment analysis in breast cancer networks.
• Conversion and analysis between Time Series and Networks.
• Numeric Modelation of Physical-Chemical Systems
• Agent Based Modeling in Social Network

Research Interests

• Systems Biology
• Complex Systems and Complex Networks
• Physical Biology and Chemical Physics
• Networks Science
• Computational and Statistical Physics
• Computational Social Science
• Science of Science

Academic Acomplishments

• Lecturer at Sciences Faculty of UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
• Recognition (medal and diploma) for 10 years of academic services at UNAM
• CONACYT Scholarship holder (Aug 2014 - at present)
• CONACYT Scholarship holder (Aug 2008 - Jul 2010)
• UNAM-PAPIIT Scholarship holder (Jun 2007 - May 2008)
• UNAM-DGDC Scholarship holder “Science Divulgation” (Apr 2006 - May 2007)

Publications

• A game-theory modeling approach to utility and strength of interactions dynamics in biomedical research social networks, J. Mario Siqueiros-García, Rodrigo García-Herrera, Enrique Hernández-Lemus and Sergio Alcalá-Corona*, Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling 5.1 (2017): 5.

• Community Structure Reveals Biologically Functional Modules in MEF2C Transcriptional Regulatory Network, Sergio A. Alcalá-Corona, Tadeo E. Velázquez-Caldelas, Jesús Espinal-Enríquez and Enrique Hernández-Lemus*, Frontiers in physiology 7 (2016).
• A Literature-Based Approach to a Narco-Network, Espinal-Enrıquez, J. ∗ , Siqueiros-Garcıa, J. M., Garcıa-Herrera, R., & Alcala-Corona, S. A., Social Informatics (pp. 97-101) (2014). Springer International Publishing (2014).
• Building blocks and search, Lozano, A., Mireles, V., Monsivais, D., Stephens, C. R. , Alcala, S. A., & Cervantes, F., MICAI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (pp. 704-715). Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2009).