Dr. Miguel RAZO was born in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. He obtained his B.S. in Communications and Electronic Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Guanajuato, México, in 2001 and 2002 respectively. He worked as professor in the Communications and Electronics department, teaching undergraduate level courses, and served as a committee member for the creation of the B.S. in Computer Science, as well as software architect for government and private industry projects.

In January 2005 through the support of the agreement between The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and the Mexican Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT), he started his graduate studies at UTD, where he earned his M.S. in Telecommunications Engineering in 2006 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2009. He worked as Research Assistant from 2007 to 2009, and is currently a Research Associate, at the OpNeAR (Open Networking Advance Research) Laboratory and Senior Lecturer within the Computer Science Department at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.

He has collaborated in design and implementation of software prototypes for telecom industry.

His research interests include network planning, fault protection, telecommunication software design, protocol design and network modeling, emulation and simulation.