Alfonso Medina Urrea, originally from Mexico City, is a full-time professor-researcher at the Spanish Spanish Dictionary (Center for Linguistic and Literary Studies, Cell) since 2012.

He obtained a bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas in San Antonio (Degree in Mathematics and Computing, Ministry of Public Education) and a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies of the University of Texas in Austin. In 2003, he obtained a doctorate in Cell linguistics (Promotion 1993-1996). He was a Sandwich fellow (1998-2000) of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdiest at the University of Tréveris (Trier), Fach Linguistische Datenverarbeitung. In the National System of Researchers of CONACYT he is a national researcher, level I, since 2004.

He was a full -time researcher at the Institute of Engineering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico between 2005 and 2012, in the Linguistic Engineering Group, where he was in charge of the Constitution and Development of Electronic Corpus for Linguistics Research and in Text mining. He has been the author and co -author of more than 30 articles (published in specialized magazines, book chapters and Congress Memories) related to the automatic discovery of the Aphjal concatenative morphology of various languages, with the development and compilation of electronic linguistic corpus and with various Language technologies.

In addition to teaching courses in the PhD in Cell linguistics, he has been a professor at the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and the Faculty of Sciences (UNAM) and at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH).

He has been a member of the Mexican Association of Applied Linguistics, the Mexican Association for Natural Language Processing, the Network of Digital Humanities, the Ibero -American Network of Terminology and the International Quantitative Linguistic Association.