Fernando Esponda holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor in Computer Engineering at the Technological Institute of Mexico. He is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Computer Science in Yale University in New Haven. Esponda's representative papers: Fernando Esponda, Elena S. Ackley, Paul Helman, Haixia Jia, and Stephanie Forrest, Protecting Data Privacy through Hard-to-Reverse Negative Databases, In proceedings of the 9th Information Security Conference (ISC'06), pp. 72-84 2006; Fernando Esponda, Negative Surveys, ArXiv Mathematics e-prints: math/0608176, 2006.