About me

I was born and raised in Mexico City, were I did my undergrad in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (something similar to Electrical Engineering) at Universidad Iberomericana, Ciudad de México. After a little over 4 years of working as a Professor at my alma mater and teaching most of the programming and databases classes, I decided to move to Boulder, CO, USA. In spring of 2009 I started a MS, which turned into a PhD, in Computer Science (it really was on Computational Biology) with Rob Knight. Finally, I obtained my PhD in fall 2012.

More often than I would like to acknowledge, collaborators and friends ask me if I go with "Antonio González" or "Antonio González Peña". Well, as a good latino I have two last names, my father's: González and my mother's: Peña so in papers I published before moving to the USA I used my full name (to be honest not that many), then on my first paper published in the USA I decided to do the same. Big mistake! Mainly, because as I decided to not hyphen my two last names parsers decided that I was "Antonio G. Peña". Thus, since that moment I decided that the easiest will be to go with Antonio González for publications and keep all my correspondence as Antonio González Peña.