Roberto Ponce López is a faculty member and researcher with a joint appointment at the Center for the Future of Cities and the School of Government and Public Transformation at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. His research focuses on the use of Urban Information Systems to support land-use and transportation policy planning in cities. He leads the Urban Science research group at the Center, directing an interdisciplinary team of ten researchers who develop quantitative approaches to understanding urban systems and designing public, open-source urban information platforms.

He currently leads and collaborates on more than ten research projects on topics including urban expansion simulation, transport modeling, and public space analytics. His academic work has been published in several of the most prestigious journals in urban studies and computational urbanism. Roberto holds a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.