María Angélica Salazar Aguilar (born 1981) is a Mexican

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

and

operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

er specializing in

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for

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

transportation planning Transportation planning is the process of defining future policies, goals, investments, and spatial planning designs to prepare for future needs to move people and goods to destinations. As practiced today, it is a collaborative process that i ...

and

sales territory A sales territory is the customer group or geographical area for which an individual salesperson or a sales team holds responsibility. Territories can be defined on the basis of geography, sales potential, history, or a combination of factors. Com ...

design. She is a professor at the

Autonomous University of Nuevo León The Autonomous University of Nuevo León () is a public research university with seven campuses across the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León. Founded as University of Nuevo León on 25 September 1933, it is the third largest public university ...

, in the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.

Education and career

Salazar earned a computer engineering degree from the

Querétaro Institute of Technology The Querétaro Institute of Technology (), or ITQ is part of National Technological Institute of Mexico system, which is an organized educational complex, high academic self-sufficiency and continuity in their actions, together by a strong sense ...

in 2004. She went to the Autonomous University of Nuevo León for graduate study in systems engineering, earning a master's degree and a PhD. Her 2010 doctoral dissertation, ''Models, Algorithms, and Heuristics for Multiobjective Commercial Territory Design'', was supervised by Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado. She did postdoctoral research in Canada at the

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, in the Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur les Réseaux d'Entreprise, la Logistique et le Transport (CIRRELT), before returning to the Autonomous University of Nuevo León as a faculty member.

Recognition

Salazar is a member of the

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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Salazar Aguilar, M. Angélica 1981 births Living people Mexican computer scientists Mexican women computer scientists Operations researchers Autonomous University of Nuevo León alumni Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences 21st-century Mexican scientists 21st-century women scientists