Jorge Urrutia Galicia: A Mexican Pioneering Mathematician And Computer Scientist
Jorge Urrutia Galicia is a Mexican computer scientist and mathematician.
Galicia is best known for his work on geometry. He made contributions to many different areas of mathematics, including discrete geometry, discrete optimization, and computational geometry. His specialty in computational geometry has made him recognized as one of the leading researchers worldwide. His research has also focused on combinatorial optimization, which is related to combinatorial game theory.
His early works dealt with problems of separability and visibility, a field in which he is an indisputable authority. While it is clear that mathematics has always played a basic role as the underlying foundation of all technology, especially now, and in this case it is confirmed why the technological scope of Dr. Urrutia’s articles in routing is significant; suffice to mention just one: recently algorithms are being implemented based on the ideas of Dr. Urrutia, to make communication networks that can be used in case of natural disasters.
Since the end of the 20th century, he began to work on routing problems, developing algorithms for both the combinatorial and geometric problems, which literally founded a work area of great importance in its application to wireless and cellular networks. In the 21st century, Dr. Urrutia has also stood out for his numerous contributions to the study of discrete sets of points, on which he has made decisive contributions, both in their solution and formulating various variants.
Dr. Jorge Urrutia Galicia studied a bachelor’s degree in mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences of UNAM from 1971 to 1974, and a master’s and doctoral degree in mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Canada from 1976 to 1980. He has worked at the Metropolitan Autonomous University-Iztapalapa, CIMAT, Carleton University, Ottawa University from 1984-1998, where he was "full professor", and since 1998 at the Institute of Mathematics of the UNAM. On average, he teaches five courses each year (two undergraduate and three postgraduate courses).
Annually, he organizes at least two research workshops in Mexico, one of its main objectives being that its students know and work with renowned researchers and learn to collaborate with them as equals.
From 1990 to 2000, he was editor-in-chief of the journal Computational Geometry, Theory and Applications, published by Elsevier Science Publishers. He has been a member of the editorial boards of the Mexican Mathematical Society Bulletin and of Graphs and Combinatorics (Springer, and Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications (Elsevier). He was also editor of the Handbook of Computational Geometry (2000), one of Elsevier's first published handbooks.
He has published more than 270 articles in conference proceedings and research journals in mathematics and computing, which have received more than 6,000 citations, among the most important are two articles on routing in ad-hoc and wireless networks, which have received more than 2 600 citations together: “Compass Routing in Geometric Graphs” and “Routing with Guaranteed Delivery in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks.” In these investigations, Dr. Urrutia develops new strategies – highly efficient – to send information on wireless networks that take advantage of the characteristics obtained by recent technologies such as GPS, in addition to allowing them to travel through these networks effectively without having knowledge of their topology. It is worth mentioning that in 2012 he was the most cited mathematician of the UNAM.
He has given more than 40 plenary lectures at international congresses on Computational Geometry. He was editor-in-chief of "Computational Geometry, Theory and Applications" from 1990 to 2000. He has supervised more than 55 bachelor, master and doctoral theses.
In 2015, he received the "National University in Research in Exact Sciences" award at UNAM. He is is a member of the National System of Investigators, Level 3 He has organized and participated in the organizing committees of several national congresses including the "Victor Neumann-Lara Colloquium on Graphic Theory and its Applications", the "Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry", the "Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry" and the "Computational Geometry Meetings" (Spain). Oher countries where he has also participated in this way are Italy, Indonesia, Philippines, China, Canada, Peru and Argentina, as well as his home country, Mexico.
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