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Computer Scientist & Educator

Ernesto Cuadros‑Vargas

ecuadros@spc.org.pe

Professor, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI), Lima, Peru. Founder of the Peruvian Computer Society. Standards‑committee statesman for computer science education across the Americas.

ACM Distinguished Speaker

2025–2027

IEEE‑CS Distinguished Visitor Speaker

2025–2027

Ph.D. in Computer Science from the ICMC, University of São Paulo, Brazil (2004), with research conducted alongside Carnegie Mellon University (2001) and the Technische Universität Berlin (2002). For sixteen years he chaired or deaned computer science programs in Peru, and he is the only Latin American to have sat on the ACM/IEEE‑CS steering committees that wrote both the CS2013 and CC2020 curricular standards used worldwide.

Computing CurriculaAccreditationMultimedia DatabasesCS Education PolicyNeural Networks

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Teaching Impact

More of Professor Cuadros‑Vargas's graduates work at Google worldwide than the alumni of every other Peruvian university combined.
— a sixteen‑year record of academic leadership in Peruvian computer science

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Media Appearances

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Education

2004

Ph.D. in Computer Science

ICMC, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil — dissertation on indexing & searching in multimedia databases

Research residency — Carnegie Mellon University, 2001 Research residency — TU Berlin, 2002

1998

M.Sc. in Computer Science

Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

1994

B.Sc. in Software Systems Engineering

Universidad Católica de Santa María, Arequipa, Peru

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Leadership & Service

2020–23

Board of Governors, IEEE Computer Society

2009–16

Executive Secretary, Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informática (CLEI)

8 yrs

Founder & President, Sociedad Peruana de Computación (SPC)

2005–20

Department Chair / Dean, Computer Science, Peru

Sixteen years shaping curricula and academic policy

2016–18

Ad honorem advisor to the President of the Republic of Peru

Also served as advisor to Peru's Minister of Education

Ongoing

International accreditation evaluator

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Standards & Distinctions

STEERING COMMITTEE

ACM/IEEE‑CS Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020)

Only Latin American member of the committee.

STEERING COMMITTEE

ACM/IEEE‑CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 (CS2013)

Only Latin American member of the committee.

2025–2027

ACM Distinguished Speaker

Association for Computing Machinery.

2025–2027

IEEE‑CS Distinguished Visitor Speaker

IEEE Computer Society.

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Global Engagement

Invited speaker at conferences and universities across:

🇧🇷 Brazil🇨🇱 Chile🇨🇴 Colombia🇺🇸 United States🇨🇦 Canada🇷🇺 Russia🇯🇵 Japan🇨🇳 China🇮🇳 India🇪🇸 Spain🇲🇦 Moroccoand more

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Affiliation & Contact

Currently professor at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI), Lima, Peru.

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