Dora-Luz Flores is a computer engineer and professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Ensenada, Mexico. She received her MS from Instituto Politécnico Nacional and her PhD from UABC. Currently, Dr Flores is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores and heads the Bionanoengineering research group. She has coauthored over 30 peer-reviewed manuscripts and six book chapters. Her current research interest focuses on artificial intelligence applied to biological systems, simulation of complex systems, computational biology, and agent-based systems.
Dr. Flores has directed almost 20 undergraduate and postgraduate students with their thesis projects. She has served as an organizer in more than ten Mexican and international conferences, including CLAIB, MICAI, and CNIB. She is also the editor-in-chief of the Mexican Journal of Biomedical Engineering 2022-2023. In 2018, she received a Fulbright-García Robles scholarship to carry out a research project at the University of California Irvine.