| Patricio Zorrilla Amaya is an industrial engineer from Monterrey, Mexico, specializing in operations management and AI-assisted workflow optimization. Across a career spanning manufacturing, nonprofit, e-learning, healthcare, and fintech, he has been recognized for quickly spotting improvement opportunities and turning them into results that stakeholders at every level can see. Today, he designs AI-enabled workflows grounded in core industrial engineering principles, including process analysis, human factors, and mathematical modeling, to stabilize operations, reduce overhead, and raise satisfaction for the teams and customers who rely on them. Patricio earned his B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Universidad de Monterrey and, as a Fulbright scholar, his Master of Industrial Engineering from Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing in 2024. At Rice, he deepened his expertise in operations research, revenue management, human factors and UX research, advanced mathematical modeling, supply chain, and manufacturing systems. He is passionate about building bridges between Mexican engineering talent and the Rice community. |
