Yulia Ledeneva (Russia) receiving her Lázaro Cárdenas Gold Medal from the hands of Felipe Calderón, the President of the United States of Mexico, accompanied by Enrique Villa Rivera, Director General (President) of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. Presidential Palace, Constitution Square, 2009.

Yulia Ledeneva received her PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2008; advisor: Alexander Gelbukh.

The Gold Medal. Here, here, and here are some press-releases about the event.

Francisco Hiram Calvo Castro addressing Vicente Fox, the President of the United States of Mexico, accompanied by Reyes Tamez Guerra, Secretary of Education of Mexico, and  Enrique Villa Rivera, Director General (President) of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, at the ceremony of presenting him the Lázaro Cárdenas Gold Medal. IPN, 2006.

Hiram Calvo received his PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2006; advisor: Alexander Gelbukh.

Another photo from the ceremony, photo with the medal.

Yoel Ledo Mezquita (Cuba) receiving his Lázaro Cárdenas Gold Medal from the hands of Vicente Fox, the President of the United States of Mexico, accompanied by Reyes Tamez Guerra, Secretary of Education of Mexico, and  Miguel Angel Correa Jasso, Director General (President) of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. Presidential Residence Los Pinos, 2003.

Yoel Ledo Mezquita received his PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2006; advisors: Grigori Sidorov and Alexander Gelbukh.

Another photo, diploma, the medal.

Francisco Hiram Calvo Castro received an Award for Post-Graduate Thesis in 2006. This award is presented by the Director General (President) of the IPN (National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico) and is presented yearly to the best theses defended at the Institute. The award is accompanied by monetary prize approximately equivalent to US $3,600 (as of 2006).

Hiram Calvo received his PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2006; advisor: Alexander Gelbukh.

Francisco Hiram Calvo Castro received an Award for Best Average Marks in 2005–2006. This award is presented by the Director General (President) of the IPN (National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico) and is presented yearly to the best average marks received by the students of the Institute.

Hiram Calvo received his PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2006; advisor: Alexander Gelbukh.

Sergio Gonzalo Jiménez Vargas (Colombia), together with Alexander Gelbukh, received the best paper award (first place) at the 2011 Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2011, for the paper: SC spectra: A new soft cardinality approximation for text comparison.

Sergio Gonzalo Jiménez Vargas is a PhD student at the National University, Colombia; advisor: Alexander Gelbukh. MICAI 2011 conference received 348 submissions from 40 countries.

Olga Kolesnikova (Russia) received the award for the best PhD thesis in Artificial Intelligence, first place, at the 2011 national competition of PhD theses in Artificial Intelligence organized by the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), for the thesis: Automatic extraction of lexical functions.

Olga Kolesnikova received her PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2011; advisor: Alexander Gelbukh.

Olga Kolesnikova (Russia), together with Alexander Gelbukh, received the best paper award (first place) at the 2010 Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2010, for the paper: Supervised Machine Learning for Predicting the Meaning of Verb-Noun Combinations in Spanish.

Olga Kolesnikova was at that time a PhD student at, and now holds a PhD degree from, CIC-IPN; advisor: Alexander Gelbukh. MICAI 2010 conference received over 300 submissions from 34 countries.

Grettel Barcelo Alonso (Cuba) received the award for the best PhD thesis in Artificial Intelligence, second place, at the 2010 national competition of PhD theses in Artificial Intelligence organized by the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), for the thesis: Desambiguación de los sentidos de las palabras en español usando textos paralelos.

Grettel Barcelo Alonso received her PhD degree with honors from CIC-IPN in 2010; advisors: Alexander Gelbukh and Grigori Sidorov.

Miguel Angel Ríos Gaona received the award for the best MSc thesis in Artificial Intelligence, second place, at the 2010 national competition of PhD theses in Artificial Intelligence organized by the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), for the thesis: Word Sense Disambiguation and recognizing Textual Entailment with Statistical Methods.

Miguel Angel Ríos Gaona received his MSc degree with honors from CIC-IPN in 2010; advisors: Alexander Gelbukh and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay.

Yulia Ledeneva (Russia) received the award for the best PhD thesis in Artificial Intelligence, third place, at the 2009 national competition of PhD theses in Artificial Intelligence organized by the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), for the thesis: Automatic language-independent detection of multiword descriptions for text summarization.

Yulia Ledeneva received her PhD degree with honors from CIC-IPN in 2008; advisor: Alexander Gelbukh.

Yulia Ledeneva (Russia) received the Best Paper Award, Second place, at the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2008. The conference received about 400 submissions from 43 countries.

Yulia Ledeneva received her PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2008; advisor: Alexander Gelbukh.

Steve Legrand (Finland / Australia) received the Best Poster Award, Second place, at the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2007. The conference received about 485 submissions from 43 countries.

Steve Legrand received his PhD degree from University of Jyväskylä, Finlandia, in 2007; advisors: Pasi Tyrväinen and Alexander Gelbukh.

Francisco Hiram Calvo Castro, together with Alexander Gelbukh and Adam Kilgarriff, received the Best Presentation Award at the 6^th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2005, for presentation of the paper Distributional Thesaurus vs. WordNet: A Comparison of Backoff Techniques for Unsupervised PP Attachment. Elected via ballot among all attendees of the conference, out of 53 oral presentations. The conference received 151 submissions from 26 countries.

Hiram Calvo received his PhD degree from CIC-IPN in 2006; advisor: Alexander Gelbukh..

Manuel Montes y Gómez, PhD, advisors Alexander Gelbukh and Aurelio López López.

Francisco Hiram Calvo Castro, PhD, advisor Alexander Gelbukh.

Yulia Ledeneva (Russia), PhD, advisor Alexander Gelbukh.

Javier Leandro Tejada Cárcamo (Peru), PhD, advisors Alexander Gelbukh and Francisco Hiram Calvo Castro.

Sulema Torres Ramos, PhD, advisor Alexander Gelbukh.

Grettel Barceló Alonso (Cuba), PhD, advisors Alexander Gelbukh and Grigori Sidorov.

Olga Kolesnikova (Russia), PhD, advisor Alexander Gelbukh.

Javier Leandro Tejada Cárcamo (Peru), MSc, advisor Alexander Gelbukh.

Sulema Torres Ramos, MSc, advisor Alexander Gelbukh.

Alfredo López Monroy, MSc, advisors Alexander Gelbukh and Francisco Hiram Calvo Castro.

Miguel Angel Ríos Gaona, MSc, advisors Alexander Gelbukh and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay.

Rodrigo Gabino Ramirez Moreno, MSc, advisor Alexander Gelbukh.