Professor Martha Mora Torres has a degree in Electronic Engineering from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), a Master's degree in Engineering (Computer Science) and a Ph.D. in Sciences (Computer Science) from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

She is currently an Associate Professor in the area of Combinatorial Optimization. Her area of expertise is knowledge representation with uncertainty applied to cognitive design, multi-agent architectures, synthetic emotions ,and artificial consciousness. She has the PRODEP recognition.