Matemático y Maestro en Ciencias por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, obtuvo su doctorado en la Universidad de Missouri-Columbia, como becario del programa CONACYT-Fulbright-García Robles, bajo la dirección del Prof. Steve Hofmann. Luego de realizar una estancia de tres años como J. L. Doob Posdoctoral Professor en la Universidad de Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), desarrolló su labor de docencia e investigación en México, dirigiendo varias tesis en niveles de licenciatura, maestría y doctorado, y fungiendo como mentor de varias estancias posdoctorales. Ha dado clase en el ITAM desde el Otoño de 2017. Sus áreas de especialización incluyen interacciones del análisis de Fourier moderno con las ecuaciones diferenciales parciales, el análisis funcional y la teoría geométrica de la medida.
Jorge Rivera Noriega obtained the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. As a fellow of the CONACYT-Fulbright-García Robles program he pursued the doctoral studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and upon obtaining the Ph. D. degree under supervision of Prof. Steve Hofmann, he took a three-year position as J. L. Doob Posdoctoral Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been teaching and developing his research in México ever since, and has been director of several thesis at the undergraduate, master and doctoral degree level. He has also been mentor of several posdoctoral fellows. He started teaching at ITAM in the Autumn Semester of 2017. His research interests are focused on certain interactions of modern Fourier analysis with partial differential equations, functional analysis and geometric measure theory.