Awards
received by the students
of the Natural Language Processing Lab
and students advised by our professors

 

    

Lázaro Cardenas Gold Medal
 (Presea Lázaro Cárdenas)

presented personally by the President of the United States of Mexico
     
 

Yulia Ledeneva (Russia) receiving her Lázaro Cárdenas Gold Medal from Felipe Calderón, the President of the United States of Mexico, accompanied by Enrique Villa Rivera, Director General (President) of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. Presidential Palace in the Constitution Square, 2009.

Yulia Ledeneva received her PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2008. Advisor: Alexander Gelbukh.

The Gold Medal. Here, here, and here are some press-releases about the event.
     

  Francisco Hiram Calvo Castro addressing Vicente Fox, the President of the United States of Mexico, accompanied by Reyes Tamez Guerra, Secretary of Education of Mexico, and  Enrique Villa Rivera, Director General (President) of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, at the ceremony of presenting him the Lázaro Cárdenas Gold Medal. IPN, 2006.

Hiram Calvo received his PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2006. Advisor: Alexander Gelbukh.

Another photo from the ceremony, photo with the medal.
     
 

Yoel Ledo Mezquita (Cuba) receiving his Lázaro Cárdenas Gold Medal from Vicente Fox, the President of the United States of Mexico, accompanied by Reyes Tamez Guerra, Secretary of Education of Mexico, and  Miguel Angel Correa Jasso, Director General (President) of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. Presidential Residence Los Pinos, 2003.

Yoel Ledo Mezquita received his PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2006. Advisors: Grigori Sidorov and Alexander Gelbukh.

Another photo, diploma, the medal.
 

 

Other Institutional Awards

presented personally by by the Director General (President) of the IPN. IPN has more than 300,000 students.
     

  Francisco Hiram Calvo Castro received an Award for Post-Graduate Thesis in 2006. This award is presented by the Director General (President) of the IPN (National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico) and is presented yearly to the best theses defended at the Institute. The award is accompanied by monetary prize approximately equivalent to US $3,600 (as for 2006).

Hiram Calvo received his PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2006. Advisor: Alexander Gelbukh.

 
     
  Francisco Hiram Calvo Castro received an Award for Best Average Marks in 2005-2006. This award is presented by the Director General (President) of the IPN (National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico) and is presented yearly to the best average marks received by the students of the Institute.

Hiram Calvo received his PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2006. Advisor: Alexander Gelbukh.

 
 

 

National and International Awards
     

 

Yulia Ledeneva (Russia) received the Best Paper Award, Second place, at the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2008. The conference received about 400 submissions from 43 countries.

Yulia Ledeneva received her PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2008. Advisor: Alexander Gelbukh.
     

 

Steve Legrand (Finland / Australia) received the Best Poster Award, Second place, at the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2007. The conference received about 485 submissions from 43 countries.

Steve Legrand received his PhD degree from University of Jyväskylä, Finlandia, in 2007. Advisors Pasi Tyrväinen and Alexander Gelbukh.
     

 

Yulia Ledeneva (Russia) received the award for the best PhD thesis in Artificial Intelligence, third place, in 2009 in the national competition of PhD theses in Artificial Intelligence organized by the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA).

Yulia Ledeneva received her PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2008. Advisor: Alexander Gelbukh.
 

 

Honors Degrees
     
Mención honorífica by IPN, Mexico

The only honors degree awarded by this school (equivalent to cum laude or summa cum laude).

Note: Some people are listed twice if they received first MSc and later PhD honors degree.

 

Manuel Montes y Gómez, PhD, advisors Alexander Gelbukh and Aurelio López López.

Hiram Calvo Castro, PhD, advisor Alexander Gelbukh.

Yulia Ledeneva (Russia), PhD, advisor Alexander Gelbukh.

Javier Leandro Tejada Cárcamo (Peru), PhD, advisors Alexander Gelbukh and Hiram Calvo Castro.

Sulema Torres Ramos, PhD, advisor Alexander Gelbukh.

Grettel Barceló Alonso (Cuba), PhD, advisors Alexander Gelbukh and Grigori Sidorov.

Javier Leandro Tejada Cárcamo (Peru), MSc, advisor Alexander Gelbukh.

Sulema Torres Ramos, MSc, advisor Alexander Gelbukh.

Alfredo López Monroy, MSc, advisors Alexander Gelbukh and Hiram Calvo Castro.

Miguel Ángel Ríos Gaona, MSc, advisors Alexander Gelbukh and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay.
     
Mención laureada by UN, Colombia

The highest honors degree awarded by this school (equivalent to summa cum laude).

  

Carlos Mario Zapata Jaramillo, PhD, advisors Alexander Gelbukh and Fernando Arango Isaza.
     
Mención meritoria by UN, Colombia

The second highest honors degree awarded by this school (equivalent to cum laude), awarded to less than 10% of students.

  

Sergio Gonzalo Jiménez Vargas, MSc, advisors Alexander Gelbukh and Fabio A. González O.