Adriana Lara López is a Mexican computer scientist whose research involves

evolutionary computation In computer science, evolutionary computation is a family of algorithms for global optimization inspired by biological evolution, and the subfield of artificial intelligence and soft computing studying these algorithms. In technical terms, they ...

memetic algorithm A memetic algorithm (MA) in computer science and operations research, is an extension of the traditional genetic algorithm. It may provide a sufficiently good solution to an optimization problem. It uses a local search technique to reduce the like ...

s, and

multi-objective optimization Multi-objective optimization (also known as multi-objective programming, vector optimization, multicriteria optimization, multiattribute optimization or Pareto optimization) is an area of multiple criteria decision making that is concerned with ...

. She is a professor in the school of physics and mathematics at the

Instituto Politécnico Nacional The National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico ( es, Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México; ), abbreviated IPN, is one of the largest public universities in Mexico with 171,581 students at the high school, undergraduate and postgraduate level ...

in Mexico.

Education and career

Lara graduated from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in 2001, and earned a master's degree through

CINVESTAV The Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (in Spanish: ''Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional'' or simply as ''CINVESTAV-IPN'') is a Mexican non-governmental ...

in 2003. She completed her PhD at CINVESTAV in 2012. Her dissertation, ''Using Gradient Based Information to Build Hybrid Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms'', was jointly supervised by Oliver Schütze and Carlos A. Coello Coello. She has been a professor at the IPN since 2003.

Recognition

Lara was elected to the

Mexican Academy of Sciences The Mexican Academy of Sciences ''(Academia Mexicana de Ciencias)'' is a non-profit organization comprising over 1800 distinguished Mexican scientists, attached to various institutions in the country, as well as a number of eminent foreign coll ...

in 2022.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lara, Adriana Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Mexican computer scientists Mexican women computer scientists Academic staff of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences