Vita

See this document in spanish here, this document in pdf format here

1. Personal Information

Name :	Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas
E-mail :
WWW :	http://socios.spc.org.pe/ecuadros
Address :	Urb. La Cantuta D-11. José Luis Bustamante y Rivero Arequipa Peru
Phone :	+51-54-400416 +51-54-9341932

2. Education

• PhD in Computer Science (2000-2004).
  University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Advisor: Profa Dra. Roseli Ap. Francelin Romero
  Research Project: Similatiry Information Retrieval using Intelligent Techniques (March 2004).
• M.Sc. Computer Science (August 1996- August 1998).
  Research Project: Application of Constructive and Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition and
  Kipu: A Construtive Neural Networks Simulator.
  Research Advisor: André Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho. PhD.
  University of São Paulo - Brazil.
• B.Eng. Systems Engineer (1990-1994).
  Catholic University of Santa María.
  Research Project: Indexing and Searching on Textual Data Bases using Digital Data Structures (1995).
  Arequipa - Peru.

3. Research Projects

• Applying IEEE/ACM computing curricula in Peru. Since 2003.
• Analysis of urban trafic in Arequipa: origin and consequences. 2004.
• Incorporating Spatial Access Method into Neural Networks
• Indexing and Searching Multimedia Data using and Intelligent Techniques. PhD Project
  This project is being carried out with Carnegie Mellon University and Technischen Universität-Berlin Germany.
• Performance Comparison between Multi-Threaded and Single-Threaded Applications (1999) With Guillermo Camara Chavez
  Catholic University of Santa María. Arequipa-Peru.
• Using Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction (1999)
  National University of San Agustin. Arequipa-Peru.
• Kipu: A Simulator for Constructive Neural Networks (1997-1998).
  University of São Paulo. São Paulo-Brazil.
• Indexing and Searching on Textual Data Bases using Digital Data Structures (1994-1995).
  Catholic University of Santa María. Arequipa-Peru.

4. Professional Experience

• Member of the Educational Activities Board (EAB) of IEEE 2006-2007
• President of the Peruvian Computer Society (SPC) 2001-2007.
• CEO of the Handel Soft SAC. Peru. Since September 2004.
• Assistant Professor. National University of San Agustin Arequipa, Peru. Since 1999.
• Assistant Professor. National University of San Agustin Arequipa, Peru. Since March 2004.
• Systems Analyst and C++ Programmer (Nov 1993 - Oct 1995) Senior since June 1994
  Informatic Institute of the National University of San Agustin. Arequipa-Peru.
• Senior Programmer Olympus Srl. Arequipa-Peru. September 1998-August 1999.
• Object Oriented Programming with Visual C++. UNA. Puno - Peru. Invited Professor. Graduate School. January-February 2000.
• Invited Professor Data Structures. UNA. Puno-Peru. Summer Course. 1999.
• Invited Professor Applied Informatics for Medicine. UCSM-Arequipa-Peru. Graduate School. November 1998 – July 1999.
• Invited Professor Neural Networks. UCSM-Arequipa-Peru. Graduate School. November 1998 – July 1999.
• Assistant Professor of Neural Networks USP-Brazil. Undergraduate School. 1998.
• Assistant Professor of Data Structures. USP – Brazil . Summer School Graduate School. Summer 1997.
• Assistant Professor of Graphs Theory. USP - Brazil: Undergraduate. 1997.
• Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics, Introduction to Compilers, Operational Research. UCSM. Arequipa-Peru. 1996.
• Object Oriented Programming II. Instituto del Sur. Arequipa-Peru. 1995.

5. Publications

Full list (including pdf files) can be seen at: http://socios.spc.org.pe/ecuadros/publications.php

6. Recent responsabilities

• Head of the School of Computer Science (Informatica), Universidad Católica San Pablo, Arequipa, Peru.
  
• President of the Peruvian Computer Society (SPC) 2001-2005.
• President of the Organizing Committee of the VII Iberoamerican Workshop on Requirement Engineering and developing of Software Environments (VII Workshop Iberoamericano de Ingeniería de Requisitos y Desarrollo de Ambientes de Software) (IDEAS2004)
  http://ideas2004.spc.org.pe
• President of the Organizing Committee of the 30th Latinoamerican Conference on Informatics (30ma edición de la Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática (CLEI2004)
  http://clei2004.spc.org.pe
• Member of the executive committee for CLEI (Conferencia Latinoamericana de Estudios en Informática) representing Peru
• PC Chair for Intl Conf. of Peruvian Computer Society. Lima-Peru. 2003.
• PC Member of the I and the II Peruvian Workshop on Graduate Computing Education
  (Workshop Peruano de Eduación Superior en Computación - I WECI) (In Spanish)
  

Reviewer for

• Neural Network Journal
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
• Codeguru.com Website the number one developer site!
  

7. Main interests

• Spatial and Metric Access Methods
• Data Structures involved in Databases performance
• Flowcharts and data structures
• Neural Networks, Self-Organizing Maps (like Growing Neural Gas)
• Multi-Threading applications
• Object Oriented Programming
• COM (Component Object Model)
  

8. Languages

• Spanish (mother tongue)
• Portuguese Fluent (Advanced level)
• English Fluent (Advanced level)
• German (Basic Level)

9. References

• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, PhD (U de Chile, Chile)
  rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl, http://www.dcc.uchile/~rbaeza
• Christos Faloutsos, PhD, SCS, Carnegie Mellon University-USA
  christos@cs.cmu.edu, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos
• Klaus Ubermayer, PhD, School of Computer Science, Technishen Universitat Berlin, Germany
  oby@cs.tu-berlin.de
• Roseli A Francelin Romero, PhD (ICMC-USP, Brazil)
  rafrance@icmc.usp.br, http://www.icmc.usp.br/~rafrance
• Andre de Carvalho, PhD. (ICMC-USP, Brazil)
  andre@icmc.usp.br, http://www.icmc.usp.br/~andre