Jorge Andrés Martínez Alarcón is a biomedical engineer graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and holds two Master of Science degrees, one in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and another in Applied Computing from the University of Dundee (Scotland). He worked in private sector companies as design engineer and product manager, before joining in 1996 the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the Universidad Iberoamericana as a full-time professor in the Biomedical Engineering Program.  At the university he ran the Biomedical Engineering Program for 12 years, from 1996 to 2002 and from 2003 to 2009. During that time, along with his team, he fostered projects like the creation of the Center for Rehabilitation Engineering and Technology, Internship and Rotation Programs for the Biomedical Engineering students, and the establishment of a research program that has succeeded in attracting resources from Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). His own research has been focused on the development of software-based assistive technology for people with disabilities, particularly in the field of augmentative and alternative communication, in which he has developed several applications that help people with speech disabilities to communicate verbally. He is also a member of CONACYT’s registry of accredited evaluators since 1998 and has been treasurer and academic fellow of the Mexican Society of Biomedical Engineering (SOMIB). Since September of 2009 he is the Dean of the Department of Engineering at the Universidad Iberoamericana.