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Roberto Morales-Manzanares is a musician, composer, performer and Professor of Music at the University of Guanajuato. He holds a PhD in Composition from the University of California (UC), Berkeley. In 1987, Roberto co-founded, with Francisco Núñez, the Laboratory of Computer Music and Digital Synthesis at the Escuela Superior de Música. In 1992, he founded the Laboratorio de Informática Musical at the Escuela de Música de La Universidad de Guanajuato, of which he was Director until 2019. He has won a number of national and international awards as a composer, and his music is regularly performed in Mexico, the United States and Europe. Roberto has been invited as Composer-Researcher in Residence at several universities, including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, McGill University, New York University and Columbia University. He has organized and directed several international music festivals, including ‘La Computadora y la Música’, ‘Callejón del Ruido, Composición Ideas y Tecnologı́a’ and ‘Transito_MX04’. Currently, Roberto organizes courses and seminars on composition, music and mathematics and digital art in various institutions across Mexico. His research interests focus on real-time composition generated from mathematical models, learning systems applied to audio and video computing, gesture capture, and real-time processing of image and sound.