Antonio Sanchez

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  •  Age 57
  • 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 with two sons Alonso (30) and Felipe (29)

 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 - 2008 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.

1974-1975 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)
  • 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) (1986)
  • Founding member of the SMCC (1995)

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

Service Robots on a Smart Home Lab (Coauthor) in Workshop on Service Robots of MICAI'08 Mexican Conference on AI, Mexico, 2008. (English)

Un componente basado en agentes para identificar los riesgos de los adultos mayores en
su hogar mediante ontologías (Coauthor)
in Workshop on Medical Applications of ENC'08 Mexicali, Mexico Octubre, 2008.

The Use of Collective Learning for Image Recognition and Segmentation in IEEE Metrocon Arlington, Tx, August, 2008. (English)

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. IEEE Computer Society Alamitos, Ca. (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)

Experiences in International Education using Internet 2 (Coauthor) XVIII International Conference PBD Organization, Washington D.C. March 2004 (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