Full (Tenured) Professor of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Director of the Sensory Motor Integration Lab and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.

Torres is a Professor of Psychology, Computer Science and Cognitive Science at the Rutgers Psychology dept., the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science and the Computer Science Center of Computational Biomedicine and Modeling. She holds graduate appointments at the Biomedical Engineering Dept and at the Neuroscience and Cell Biology Program of Rutgers. She has published over 130 papers in highly prestigious and open access journals, and she holds 4 granted patents and 5 provisional patents, has co-founded 3 companies, written 4 printed books with Elsevier and Tailor and Francis, and co-edited multiple open access e-books in Frontiers Journals.

Torres has been recognized by the autism community with multiple awards for her labor of love, education and dissemination of scientific and technological advances. The state of NJ, where she lives, conferred her a joint legislative resolution from the Senate and General Assembly to acknowledge her as an individual of strong character, and exceptional determination and to pay tribute to her meritorious record of service, leadership and commitment to leading initiatives that have transformed research and treatments of autism.

Torres holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from CAL State San Jose, a master’s degree and PhD in Cognitive Science with applications to AI from the University of California San Diego, has done her postdoctoral training in electrophysiology and computational neural systems at CALTECH and her Sabbatical on genomics and computational biology at the Salk Institute of La Jolla, CA.