I graduated with a BSc in math from the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and with a master's degree in logic (LoPhiSS) from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. In the Spring of 2006 I took a trimester in Quantum Computing, Information and Complexity at the Centre Emile Borel, Henri Poincaré Institute in Paris. During the Summer of 2007, I was an intern at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and during the Spring semester of 2008 a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.
In 2005, I attended the NKS Summer School at Brown University, and since 2007 I've been a regular member of the faculty of the School held every year at the University of Vermont, and overseas at the CNR in Pisa, Italy in 2009.
In 2006 I began collaborating with Wolfram Research and Wolfram|Alpha as a consultant, a R&D fellow, and more recently as a senior research associate at the Special Projects office in Cambridge, MA.
I was born in Mexico City. Today I'm a Germanopratin expat living in the cradle of the existentialist movement.
From left to right:
Hector Zenil, Stephen Wolfram, Paul Davies, Ugo Pagallo, Gregory Chaitin,
Cristian Calude, Karl Svozil, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and John Casti. University of Vermont, Burlington, U.S.A. 2007. Picture by Sally McCay.
J. Joosten, F. Soler and H. Zenil, "Descriptional vs. Time Complexity, Slowdown and Speed-up phenomena in Small Turing Machines" 3rd. International workshop on Physics and Computation 2010, Egypt, Cairo, Accepted.
H. Zenil and J.P. Delahaye, "An algorithmic information-theoretic approach to the behavior of financial markets," submitted by invitation, workshop special issue, journal of Economic Surveys, 2010.
J.P. Delahaye and H. Zenil, "Output probability distributions of small Turing machines and exact evaluation of the algorithmic complexity of short strings," to be submitted to Experimental Mathematics .
Panel discussion organizer, NKS 2007 Science Conference, University of Vermont, featuring Gregory Chaitin, Stephen Wolfram, Paul Davies, John Casti, Karl Svozil, Cristian Calude.
Selected Demonstrations Demonstrations are small pieces of peer-reviewed dynamical code written in Mathematica showing a mathematical concept or scientific idea.
If you do not have Mathematica in order to run these Demonstrations you can download the Mathematica Player for free.
Poster presentation: Enumerating quantified axiom systems with equality, Midwest NKS Conference 2005, Indiana University, U.S.A.
On the possible computational power of the human mind, The Centre for Complexity Research, Society and Complexity Conference, September 2005, University of Liverpool, England.
Shareholder and CEO
1998-2003
Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS), Mexico City, Mexico. Having as customers companies such as Telcel, Maxcom, Nextel, Unefon, ADT, Alestra (AT&T), among others.
IT consultant
1996-2000
CNBV (The Mexican banking regulatory commission) and KPMG (TELCO division) Mexico City, Mexico.
Volunteering and Internships Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Summer 2007 Mars Gravity Biosatellite team
Supporting member of the software engineering team for the program, in charge of assembling, reviewing and enhancing software requirements and flowdown.
The International Wikimania Conference
Summer 2006
for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (the Wikipedia foundation) Wikimedia Organization Team, July-August, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Summer 2006 Artificial Gravity Project(test subject)
Man-Vehicle Laboratory, August, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Mexican Consulate in Seattle, WA.
December 2003-January 2004 Documentation and Consular Activities
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-123 liftoff (video taken by Hector Zenil on March 11, 2008)
This video recording was taken from the vantage point of the Banana river, 6 miles from the Shuttle platform in a restricted area inside the Kennedy Space Center. The STS-123 was the 25th. flight to the International Space Station (ISS) and delivered a Japanese module and the Canadian Dextre robot.
