Carlos Gershenson (born September 29, 1978) is a SUNY Emprire Innovation Professor at Binghamton University [5] and President of the Complex Systems Society (2024-2027).

He studied a BEng in Computer Engineering at the Arturo Rosenblueth Foundation in Mexico City in 2001 and a MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sussex.

[6] He received his PhD at the Centrum Leo Apostel of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium in 2007, on "Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems", under the supervision of Francis Heylighen.

[18] Together with Gustavo Carreón, Tania Pérez, Jorge Zapotecatl, and Luis Pineda, he developed the #Metrevolución project,[19] which managed to coordinate boarding and descent of passengers in the Mexico City metro.

[23] Gershenson also co-chaired together with Jose Luis Mateos the Conference on Complex Systems 2017, held for the first time in Latin America in Cancun.