Professor Luis Seco
Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto and Director of Risklab in Toronto, Canada.
Professor Seco’s core activity is bringing artificial intelligence into today’s sustainability challenges to build a new and better world.
His has extensive expertise in developing University-Industry relationships, which he has done since 1996. In October 2007, he won the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Synergy Award for Innovation. In 2011, he was admitted Caballero de la Orden del Mérito Civil (Knight of the Order of Civil Merit), an award from the Government of Spain for his application of mathematics to foresee economic cycles.
Professor Seco ’s career started at Princeton University in 1985, and landed at the University of Toronto in 1992 after a short stay at the California Institute of Technology. Today, he holds adjunct appointments at Renmin University in Beijing, Florida International University, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Zurich and Kutaisi International University.