Vita

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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

2007 (6)

• International Books (Libros Internacionales)

  1. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas and Patricio Morriberón and José Peñarrieta editor. Jornadas Peruanas de Computación (JPC2007), Trujillo, November 2007. Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego, Sociedad Peruana de Computación. 197 pages.
     

• International Conferences

  1. Alexander Ocsa and Carlos Bedregal and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. A new approach for similarity queries using proximity graphs. In Proceedings of the 22nd Brazilian Symposium on Data Bases. Joao Pessoa, PB. October 15-19 2007. Brazilian Computer Society.
     
  2. Alexander Ocsa and Carlos Bedregal and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. DB-GNG: A constructive Self-Organizing Map based on density. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2007). Orlando-FL. August 2007. International Neural Network Society (INNS)and IEEE-Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). IEEE.
     
  3. Omar U. Florez-Choque and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. Improving to Human Computer Interaction through Spoken Natural Language. In Fourth International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2007). Nanjing, China. June 3-7 2007. Southeast University, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and University of Illinois at Chicago. IEEE.
     
  4. Omar U. Florez-Choque and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. Using Spoken Natural Language to retrieve information from databases. In IEEE editor. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Image and Signal Processing (CIISP 2007). Hawaii, USA. April, 1-5 2007. IEEE, Computational Intelligent Society (CIS). IEEE.
     
  5. Alexander Ocsa and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. DBM*-Tree: An Efficiente Metric Access Method. In Proceedings of the 45th ACM Southeast Conference. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. March 2007. American Computing Machinery (ACM).
     

2006 (8)

• National Journals

  1. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. La formación académica como base para el desarrollo de la Industria del Software del Perú. Revista del Programa de Apoyo a la Competitividad de la Industria del Software. 1(1) pp.24-27. January. 2006.
     

• International Books (Libros Internacionales)

  1. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas editor. Proceedings de las Jornadas Peruanas de Computación (JPC2006) y del Congreso Internacional de Iniciación Científica en Computación (CONIICC2006), volume 1,Arequipa, June 2006. Sociedad Peruana de Computación and Universidad Católica San Pablo, Universidad Católica San Pablo. 415 pages, ISBN: 9972-825-09-4.
     

• International Conferences

  1. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas and Pablo Calcina Ccori and Juan Agramonte Quispe and Jorge Neyra Araoz and Jean Pierre Huertas López and José Bautista Palomino. CYBERDOC: Sistema de Trámite Documentario. In Proceedings da Conferência Sul-Americana em Ciência e Tecnología Aplicada ao Governo Electrônico (CONEGOV). 2006.
     
  2. José Peñarrieta and Patricio Morriberón and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. Distributed Spatial Approximation Tree - SAT$*$. In Mauricio Marin and Gonzalo Acuña editor. Actas de la XXXII Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informatica (CD ROM)(CLEI2006). pages 155. August 2006. CLEI. Universidad de Santiago. 956-303-028-1.
     
  3. Elizabeth Vidal and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. Computer Science Curricula design for peruvian universities: San Pablo Catholic University case study. In Proceedings of the 1st IFIP International Conference on Education for the 21st century -- Impact of ICT and Digital Resources. 2006.
     
  4. Omar U. Flórez-Choque and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. A Biologically motivated computational architecture inspired in the Human Immnulogical System to quantify abnormal behaviors to detect presence of intruders.. In Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing - BICC 2006 (IFIP BICC'06). pages 95--106. Santiago, Chile. August 2006. Springer Science. 19th IFIP World Computer Congress.
     
  5. Carlos Bedregal and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. Using Self-Organizing Maps and Large Databases without tears. In Proceedings of the World Conference on Computational Intelligence (WCCI2006). Vancouver, Canada. July 2006. IEEE.
     
  6. T.J. Oyana and L.E.K. Achenie and E. Cuadros-Vargas and P.A. Rivers and K.E. Scott. A Mathematical Improvement of the Self-Organizing Map Algorithm. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Engineering and Technology (AET 2006). Entebbe, Uganda. July 16-19 2006. Faculty of Technology, Makerere University, NUFU, SIDA.
     

2005 (1)

• International Conferences

  1. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas and Roseli A. Francelin Romero. Introduction to the SAM-SOM* and MAM-SOM* Families. In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN05). volume 5. pages 2966--2970. July 2005. INNS-IEEE.
     

2004 (5)

• PhD Thesis (Tesis de Doctorado)

  1. E. Cuadros-Vargas. Recuperación de información por similaridade utilizando técnicas inteligentes. Department of Computer Science - University of Sao Paulo, , March, 2004.(In portuguese) Advisor: Profa Roseli Ap. Francelin Romero.
     

• International Books (Libros Internacionales)

  1. Mauricio Solar and David Fernandez-Baca and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas editor. 30th Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informatica- CLEI2004, volume 1,Arequipa-Peru, Sep 2004. Sociedad Peruana de Computacion, 1273 pages.
     
  2. Mauricio Solar and David Fernandez-Baca and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas editor. Resumenes de la 30th Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informatica- CLEI2004, volume 1,Arequipa-Peru, Sep 2004. Sociedad Peruana de Computacion, 177 pages.
     
  3. Luis Olsina and Alexandre Vasconcelos and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas editor. VII Workshop Iberoamericano de Ingenieria de Requisitos y Desarrollo de ambientes de software- IDEAS2004, volume 1,Arequipa-Peru, May 2004. Sociedad Peruana de Computacion,
     
  4. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas and Adenilso da Silva Simao and Christian Paz-Trillo and Jesús Mena-Chalco editor. II Conferencia Internacional de la Sociedad Peruana de Computación SPC2004 - II CICP, volume 1,Lima-Peru, January 2004. Sociedad Peruana de Computación, Red Mundial de Científicos Peruanos, In Spanish.
     

2003 (8)

• International Books (Libros Internacionales)

  1. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas and Eduardo Tejada-Gamero and Adenilso da Silva Simao editor. I Conferencia Internacional de la Sociedad Peruana de Computación SPC2003 - I CICP, volume 1,Lima-Peru, January 2003. Sociedad Peruana de Computación, Red Mundial de Científicos Peruanos, In Spanish.
     

• International Conferences

  1. E. Cuadros-Vargas and R. Francelin Romero and Klaus Obermayer. Speeding up algorithms of SOM Family for Large and High Dimensional Databases. In Workshop on Self Organizing Maps. Kitakyushu Japan. September 2003.
     
  2. Hector Ral Velarde Bedregal and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. Propuesta de una Alternativa de Conformación de Tribunales (Jurados) para la Defensa de Tesis a nivel Universitario. In I Workshop Peruano en Educación Superior en Computación e Informática. 2003. Peruvian Computer Society. In Spanish.
     
  3. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. CC002 - El rol de la Sociedad Peruana de Computación en el desarrollo de nuestro pa. In Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas and Eduardo Tejada-Gamero and Adenilso da Silva Simao editor. I International Conference of the Peruvian Computer Society (Sociedad Peruana de Computación). pages 32--32. Lima-Peru. January 2003. Peruvian Computer Society (Sociedad Peruana de Computación), Red Mundial de Científicos Peruanos. Talk CC002 In Spanish.
     
  4. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas and Marco A. Álvarez. CC003 - Análisis y Tendencias de la Computación en el Plano Educacional. In Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas and Eduardo Tejada-Gamero and Adenilso da Silva Simao editor. I International Conference of the Peruvian Computer Society (Sociedad Peruana de Computación). pages 33-33. Lima-Peru. January 2003. Peruvian Computer Society (Sociedad Peruana de Computación), Red Mundial de Científicos Peruanos. Talk CC003 In Spanish.
     
  5. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. CC030 - Sugerencias para enseñar estructuras de datos en computación?. In Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas and Eduardo Tejada-Gamero and Adenilso da Silva Simao editor. I International Conference of the Peruvian Computer Society (Sociedad Peruana de Computación). pages 48-48. Lima-Peru. January 2003. Peruvian Computer Society (Sociedad Peruana de Computación), Red Mundial de Científicos Peruanos. Talk CC030 In Spanish.
     
  6. José Eduardo Talavera-Herrera and Omar Vivas-Arapa and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. CC122 - Refinamiento de Estructuras Inteligentes Mediante Algoritmos de Poda y Lógica Difusa. In Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas and Eduardo Tejada-Gamero and Adenilso da Silva Simao editor. I International Conference of the Peruvian Computer Society (Sociedad Peruana de Computación). pages 66-66. Lima-Peru. January 2003. Peruvian Computer Society (Sociedad Peruana de Computación), Red Mundial de Científicos Peruanos. Talk CC122 In Spanish.
     
  7. Carlos Alberto Rossel Jahuira and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. CC123 - Solving the TSP by mixing GAs with Minimal Spanning Tree. In Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas and Eduardo Tejada-Gamero and Adenilso da Silva Simao editor. I International Conference of the Peruvian Computer Society (Sociedad Peruana de Computación). pages 123-123. Lima-Peru. January 2003. Peruvian Computer Society (Sociedad Peruana de Computación), Red Mundial de Científicos Peruanos.
     

2002 (8)

• International Conferences

  1. Jose Talavera-Herrera and Omar Vivas-Arapa and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. Optimizacion de Motores de Inferencia Conexinistas Mediante Algoritmos de Poda y Logica Difusa. In Alfredo Viola et al editor. Procedings of CLEI. volume 1. pages 113--113. November 2002. CLEI. In Spanish.
     
  2. Carlos Alberto Rossel Jahuira and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. Hybrid Genetic Algorithm with Exact Techniques applied to TSP. In Second International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications. pages 119-124. Atlanta, Georgia. August 2002. Dynamic Publishers. Computational Intelligence and Applications.
     
  3. Humberto Costa de Sousa and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas and André. P. L. F. de Carvalho. A Practical Implementation of a Component-based Framework for Artificial Neural Networks. In II Workshop de Desenvolvimento Baseado em Componentes (II WDBC). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. August 2002. CD-ROM.
     
  4. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. Recuperacion de Informacion por Similaridad. In X International Congress of System Engineering Students (CONEIS 2002). Huancayo-Peru. August 2002. Universidad Nacional del Centro. Invited Talk In Spanish.
     
  5. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. Implementing Data Structures. In Ninth International Congress of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering (INTERCON 2002). Lima-Peru. August 2002. IEEE Peru. Invited Talk In Spanish.
     
  6. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. Programación Orientada a Componentes. In Luis Alfaro editor. Congreso Latinoamericano de Sistemas, Informática, Telemática, Electrónica y Computación. Arequipa-Peru. July 2002. Universidad Nacional de San Agust. CD-ROM In Spanish.
     
  7. Carlos Alberto Rossel Jahuira and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. Hybrid Genetic Algorithm with Exact Techniques applied to TSP. In XV Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimisation. Lugano, Switzerland. May 2002.
     
  8. E. Cuadros-Vargas and R. Francelin Romero. A SAM-SOM Family: Incorporating Spatial Access Methods into Constructive Self-Organizing Maps. In Proc. IJCNN'02, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. pages 1172-1177. Hawaii, HI. 2002. IEEE Press.
     

2001 (1)

• International Conferences

  1. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. Aplicaciones Multi-Hebras. In V Congreso Internacional Sudamericano de Ingeniería de Sistemas e Informática (V CISAISI). Arequipa-Peru. October 2001. UNSA. In Spanish.
     

2000 (1)

• Technical Reports (Reportes técnicos)

  1. E. Cuadros-Vargas and R. Francelin. Estudo de Modelos de Redes Neurais para a Indexación e Recuperación de Dados (Neural Networks Models for Indexing and Searching Data). 58, ICMC-USP Brazil, August , 2000. in Portuguese.
     

1998 (2)

• International Conferences

  1. E. Cuadros-Vargas and A. de Carvalho. Target Recognition using Constructive Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the Second Latino-American Seminar on Radar Remote Sensing. Image Processing. European Space Agency. Santos-SP, Brazil. September 1998. in Portuguese.
     
  2. E. Cuadros-Vargas and M. Alvarez and A. de Carvalho. Multi-Thread Object Oriented Simulator of Ontogenic Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications -- ICCIMA. pages 276-281. Vitoria-Australia. February 1998. World Scientific.
     

1997 (2)

• International Conferences

  1. E. Cuadros-Vargas and M. Alvarez and A. de Carvalho. Kipu Um Simulador de Redes Neurais Ontogenicas Orientado a Objetos. In Proceedings of IV Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks-SBRN. Goiânia, Brazil. December 1997. in Portuguese.
     

• Technical Reports (Reportes técnicos)

  1. E. Cuadros-Vargas and M. Alvarez and A. de Carvalho. Simulador Multi-threads de Redes Neurais Ontogénicas Orientado a Objetos. 59, ICMC-USP Brazil, , 1997. in Portuguese.
     

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