Antonio Sánchez Aguilar
Curriculum Vitae
Last update September 2007
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Versión en Español
Age 56
Nationality: Mexican
Address: 3120 Bellaire Drive West
Fort Worth, Texas 76109
USA
Telephone: 1-817-257-7057
Email: a.sanchez-aguilar @tcu.edu
URL: http://www.cs.tcu.edu/people/professors/asanchez/asanchez.html
Married to Dr. Mary Alcocer ,
two sons Alonso (29) and Felipe (27)
Education
1977 - 1983 D. Sc. in Computer Science with Minors in
Operations Research and
Management Science, 3.8/4.0 average.
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
1975 - 1976 M. Sc. in Computer Science with
"Exceptional Performance" in the final
exam, 3.8/4.0 average.
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
1970 - 1975 B. Sc. in Chemical Engineering
with "Honors".
Universidad Iberoamericana
México City, México
Academic Activities
2007 - Associate Professor of Computer Science
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas
2005 -2006 Distinguished Lecturer of Computer Science
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas
2002 - President of the Board of LANIA
( National Laboratory for Advanced Informatics )
1981 - 2004 Full Professor of Computer Science
and Information Technology
Universidad de las Américas-Puebla
Puebla, México.
2002- 2003 Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas
1989- 2001 Vice President for Academic Support
Universidad de las Américas-Puebla
Puebla, México.
Summer 1988 Visiting Scholar in Cybernetics
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
1985 - 1988 Vice President for Academic Affairs
Universidad de las Américas-Puebla
Puebla, México.
1984 - 1985 Dean, School of Engineering
Universidad de las Américas-Puebla
Puebla, México.
1982 - 1984 Chairman, Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences,
Universidad de las Américas-Puebla
Puebla, México.
Summer 1983 Associate Professorial Lecturer
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
1978 - 1981 Part time Professor in Computer Science:
- Universidad de las Américas-Puebla
- Universidad Iberoamericana, México
- Ciess - IMSS, México, D.F.
1977 - 1979 Graduate Teaching Assistant
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
1973 - 1974 Math Instructor at High School Level
Colegio Oxford, México, D.F.
Consulting Activities
1989-1994 Consulting Services Manager of
UDLA Consultores,
Cholula, Puebla, México
1979 - 1981 Consultant and Project Manager at
Consultores ITSA, a national consulting
firm in the fields of Computer and
Telecommunications México, D.F.
1978 -Free-Lance Consultant in Operations
Research at the Ministry of Agriculture of
the Mexican Government.
-Assistant at the IMIT,
Mexican Institute of Technological
Research México, D.F.
Areas of Interest
- Java development for Interoperability
-Thin Client for Public Computing
- Adaptive Learning & Artificial Intelligence
Academic Societies
- President of the SMCC
(Mexican Society of Computer Sciences)
(2001-2003)
-Member of CS Board UT-El Paso
- Treasurer of the SMCC
(Mexican Society of Computer Sciences)
(1995-2001)
- President of the SMIA
(Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence)
(1991-1993)
- Founding member of the SMIA
(Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence)
Distinctions
Upsilon Pi Epsilon Member (2003)
ComputerWorld Honors Laureate as part of the UDLA project ( 2001)
Phi Beta Delta Honorary Member (1993)
Member of the organizing committees of
Iberoamerican congresses of AI (Barcelona,Morelia,Havana,Caracas,Cholula,Lisboa)
- Mexico´s CONACYT Scholarship for
the Doctor in Science studies (1977-1979 )
- OAS Scholarship for the Master in Science
studies ( 1975-1977 )
Publications
Spoken commands in a Smart Home: An iterative approach to the Sphinx Algorithm (Coauthor) MICAI’07 Sixth Mexican Conference on AI, Tlaxcala, Mexico, November, 2007. Springer Verlag . (English)
Summer Interuniversity Research: The Crescent Lab experience for international graduate students (Coauthor) ENC’07 Eight Mexican International Conference on Computer Science, Morelia, Mexico September, 2007. (English)
From Information to Knowledge: The continuous need to teach AI (Coauthor) MICAI’06 Fifth Mexican Conference on AI, Tlaxcala, Mexico, November, 2006. IEEE Computer Society Alamitos, Ca. (English)
The Crescent Lab: A smart home lab for students (Coauthor) ENC’06 Seventh Mexican International Conference on Computer Science, SLP, Mexico September, 2006. IEEE Computer Society Alamitos, Ca. (English)
A CLS Hierarchy for the Classification of Images (Coauthor) MICAI 2005 Monterrey Mexico, Noviembre 2005 published as MICAI 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Alexander Gelbukh, Álvaro Albornoz, Hugo Terashima-Marín (Eds) Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer-Verlag Volume 3789 (English)
Knowledge Focused Education: Consequences of IT (Coauthor), 25th Annual McMaster World Conference , Mc Master University, Hamilton, Ca January 2004-03-03 (English)
Énfasis en el Conocimiento: Implicactiones de las TI (Coauthor),
Lania Newsletter, Vol 41-42 (2003) pp 1-6 (Spanish)
A constructivist educational tool: Software architecture for web-based video games Fourth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science, Tlaxcala, Mexico September, 2003. IEEE Computer Society Alamitos, Ca. (English)
Public Computing as a utility service X Meeting of CYTED, México, Mex. 2002
(Spanish)
Deploying Thin Clients for Public Computing. WERC Sun World Education and Research Conference San Francisco March 2001 (English)
Towards an Ontology of Waste Water Treatment Plants (Coauthor ), Environment Modelling and Software, Environmental Modelling & Software Vol 14 (1999) 401-408 (English)
Uso de las Tecnologías en Java para proveer servicios de cómputo público
Lania Newsletter, Vol 27 (1999) pp 1-6 (Spanish)
Think Client Computing (L'informatique sur client leger) (English)
Java Enterprise Solutions Simposium. Paris, France April 1999
A Knowledge base for wastewater treatment plants ( Coautor ), Expert Systems with Applications, Vol 14-1/2 Jan/Feb 1998 pp 53-61 (English)
Telecommunications as a technológical opportunity ( Coauthor ), Boletín de Política Informática Vol 20 - 6 1997 pp 1-10 (Spanish)
Simulation facilities for RISC processor data flow and performance optimization ( Coauthor), Computers & Industrial Enginering
Vol 33-1/2 1997 pp 109-112 (English)
AG/SAC : A. Genetic Selection of ALISA parameters ( coauthor )
V Iberoamerican Conference on IA : IBERAMIA 96
Cholula, Puebla, Nov. 1996
The use of Cognitive Maps in Virtual Reality ( coauthor )
V Iberoamerican Conference on IA : IBERAMIA 96
Cholula, Puebla, Nov. 1996
Data acquisition in water systems ( coauthor )
XXI National Conference of ANFEI Puebla, México Oct. 1996
The WWW as an interoperability tool ( coauthor )
Soluciones Avanzadas N. 29 Enero 15, 1996
An expert systems for stabilization lagoons ( coauthor )(English)
3rd International Conference on Approximation and Optimization in the Caribbean, Puebla, México Oct. 1995 p.p. 59
Hypertalk: A fortunate mix of OOL and software tool, Soluciones Avanzadas Num. 24 Año 3. 1995 pags.
An expert systems for stabilization lagoons ( coauthor )
XX Congreso de la Academia Nacional de Ingeniería, Veracruz, Sept 1995 pags 179-183
The Use of Alisa for medical image recognition ( Coauthor),
Proceedings of INFOMEDICA 95, Guadalajara, Mexico,
Enero 1995.
Zyanya: EDP Auditing and Expert Systems
II World Congress on Expert Systems, Lisboa, Portugal Enero 1994 (English)
Zyanya: Expert Systems in Auditing
( Coauthor ) IX National Conference of A. I. Veracruz, Ver. July 1992
Performance Metrics for Connectionist Models
( Coauthor ) IX National Conference of A. I. Veracruz, Ver. July 1992
Expert Systems at Universidad de las Américas
World Congress on Expert Systems, Orlando, Fl. Dec. 1991(English)
Learning Automata: An Alternative to Neural Networks
Simposium on Natural and Artificial Intelligence: in Rudomin, P., Arbib, M.A., Cervantes Pérez, F., and Romo, P. (Eds.), Neuroscience: From Neural Networks to Artificial Intelligence, Research Notes in Neural Computing, Vol. 4, Springer- Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin 1993 (English)
Pattern Recognition using a Learning Automata Network
II FAW Workshop on Neural Networks and Adaptive Learning
ULM Germany July 1990 (English)
AER: Pattern Recognition Using a Network of Learning Automata.
( Coauthor ) II Congreso Iberoamericano de I.A. Morelia México Julio 1990
Computing in The Engineering Curricula
Coauthor, Comunidad Informática Num. XIII-40 April 1990
pp 34-38
Organizational Implications in Data Base Systems
I Seminario de Informatica en la Administración Pública
México City, México Dec. 1989
TORDMAC: An Application of CAD/CAM, III National Conference of CAD/CAM, Puebla, México, Nov. 1989 ( Coauthor ).
PROLOG for Adaptive Learning Models
FAW Workshop on Adaptive Learning, Ulm, West Germany, 1989 (English)
Guidelines for the Implementation of a Neural Network for Image Processing
(Coauthor) VI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Queretaro, México, 1989. (English)
KUY: A Backgammon Learner
(Coauthor) VI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Queretaro, México, 1989. (Spanish)
Teaching Computing to Engineers
Coauthor, National Congress of Past, Present & Future of Computer
UNAM, México, June 1988. (Spanish)
Paradigms & Controversies in Machine Translation II
V National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Yucatán, México, March 1988. (Spanish)
Paradigms & Controversies in Machine Translation I
IV National Conference of Artificial Intelligence
Puebla, México, March 1987. (Spanish)
Cotranslator of the book Software Engineering of R.E. Fairley
McGraw Hill January, 1987 (Spanish)
Machine Translation by Conceptual Dependencies
IV Simposium on Applied Linguistics, SMLA
México,, November 1986 (Spanish)
PINEL: Expert System in Psychodiagnostic
Coauthor,III National Conference of Artificial Intelligence
Oaxaca, México, March 1986 (Spanish)
Disaster Management
Coauthor, International Conference of AMICEE
México, November 1985 (Spanish)
Notes on Computer Science Curricula
(Coauthor) V Conference on Computers in Higher Education
FAR, Moterrey N.L. México, March1985 (Spanish)
Structure of the SEA Expert System
(Coauthor) II National Conference on AI,
FAR, Monterrey, N.L. México, March 1985 (Spanish)
Disaster Planning in a Computer Environment
Coauthor, XII Reunión de Automatización de Bancos Centrales
Sto. Domingo, Dominican Republic, November 1984 (Spanish)
Expert Systems Design
Semana Nacional de Computación, FAR
México, October 1984. (Spanish)
SEA: Agricultural Expert System
Coauthor, Revista COMPUMUNDO # 6
México, September 1984. (Spanish)
MIDROB: An Intermediate Language for Robot Control
Coauthor, IEEE-LATINCON
México, July 1984 (English)
Symbolic Languages in Engineering
Coauthor, IV Conference on Computers in Higher Education
Guanajuato, México, February 1984. (Spanish)
The HCLSA
I National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, FAR
Guanajuato, México, February 1984. (Spanish)
Analysis of the HCLSA
IEEE-MEXICON
Cuernavaca, Morelos, México, November 1983. (Spanish)
The Use of Symbolic Languages in the Computarized Synthesis of Digital Circuits
Coauthor, 26th. Midwest Conference of Circuits and Systems
Puebla, México, August 1983. (English)
MIDROB: An Intermediate Language for Robot Control
Internal Report Mobile Robot Project
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C., July 1983. (English)
The Hierarchical Collective Stochastic Learning Automation
Doctoral Dissertation,
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C. February1983 (English)
Data Base Aspects in DDP
Coauthor, Comunicaciones-81
Miami, Florida, April 1981. (English)
A Recursive Approach to the CLASFY Algorithm
Coauthor, IX Conference of the CIME
México, November 1980.
Basis for the Hierarchical Learning in Automata
IEEE-MEXICONMéxico, October 1980. (Spanish)
Evaluation of Software Packages for Latin American Banks
Coauthor, VII Conference of the CLAB
Quito, Ecuador, January 1979. (Spanish)
A Model to Process Data for Factibility Analysis of an Industrial Plant Coauthor, I Latin American Conference of Cost Engineering
México, January 1975. (Spanish)