Alfredo Weitzenfeld is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF), 2006-2007. He is a Professor at the Computer Engineering Department in Mexico’s Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM) where he directs the BioRobotics (CANNES) and Robotics Laboratories.

He obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, an MS in Computer Engineering and later a PhD in Computer Science both from the University of Southern California (USC) where he later stayed as a Research Assistant Professor. He has participated in various research projects funded by CONACYT (Mexico main research funding agency) and by international collaboration programs with NSF and UC MEXUS in the US, and LAFMI in France. He is a member of Mexico National Research System (SNI), ACM and IEEE Senior Member. He is also a charter member of the IEEE Latin American and Mexican Robotics Councils. He is currently the chair of IEEE-RAS Mexico Robotics Chapter and Co-Chair of IEEE-RAS Standing Committee for Chapters and International Activities. He is the founder and current chair for the Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS) technically co-sponsored by IEEE-RAS. He is the director of the Eagle Knights RoboCup soccer team at ITAM competing in the small-size and four-legged leagues, and current Latin American champion in both leagues. He just recently founded and currently directs the USF RoboBulls RoboCup small-size team.

He is the main author of The Neural Simulation Language NSL: A System for Brain Modeling (coauthors M. Arbib and A. Alexander) published in 2002 by MIT Press and the author of Object Oriented Software Engineering with UML, Java and Internet published in 2004 by Thomson Learning. He is the main designer of the Neural Simulation Language (NSL), the Abstract Schema Language (ASL), and the Mobile Internet Robotics architecture (MIRO). His main research interests are in biorobotics, swarm robotics and human-robot interaction.