Antonio Sánchez Aguilar

Curriculum Vitae
Last update September 2007
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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)

 

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

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)