Spanish CS/CE Graduates from USA Universities

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Alejandro Acero (alexac@microsoft.com)

Interests: Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Signal Processing.

Affiliation:

• Microsoft Corporation (1994-present): Senior Researcher
• Telefonica I+D (1991-1994): Manager Speech Group
• Apple Computer (1990-1991): Senior Voice Engineer
• Carnegie Mellon University (1987-1990): PhD student
• Rice University (1986-1987): Masters' student

Current Address:

Microsoft Corporation

One Microsoft Way, 9S/1125

Redmond, WA 98052

Angel Alvarez (aalvarez@dit.upm.es)

Interests: (Distributed) Operating Systems, Concurrent Programming, Software Fault-tolerance, Real-time Programming.

Affiliations:

• DIT (Department of Telematics Engineering, Technical University of Madrid) (1988-present): Associate Professor
• University of Southern California, Department of Computer Science (1972-1977): Graduate student

Current Address:

DIT (C-218)

E.T.S.I. Telecomunicacion

Technical University of Madrid

E-28040 Madrid SPAIN

Jose Luis Ambite (ambite@isi.edu)

Interests: Information not available.

Affiliations: Information not available.

Current Address: Information not available.

Javier Aracil (jaracil@eclair.eecs.berkeley.edu)

Interests: Information not available.

Affiliations: Information not available.

Current Address: Information not available.

Javier Bautista Scheuber (javierb@pollux.usc.edu)

Interests: Computer vision, neural networks, natural language, speech recognition, machine learning, robotics, neural networks and artificial intelligence.

Affiliations:

• University of Southern California, Computer Science Department (1996-present): PhD student

Current Address:

Terrace Apt. #309

1275 W 29th Street

Los Angeles, CA 90007

Juan Jose Blanco (jblanco@cs.fit.edu)

Interests: Artificial Intelligence: currently working on stochastic approaches to CSP (Constraint Satisfaction Problems), scheduling and time-tabling.

Other interests include: constructive approaches to CSP, knowledge representation, expert systems, problem solving and applications of AI.

Affiliations:

• Florida Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department (1995-present): MS student and Teaching Assistant.
• Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1992-95): BS in Physics, Minor in Computer Science (Calculo Automatico). Teaching Assistant in the Department of CS (Informatica y Automatica) (1995).
• Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (1989-1992): BS in Physics.

Current Address:

Florida Institute of Technology

Department of Computer Science

150 West University Blvd.

Melbourne, FL 32901 (USA)

Angel Cabrera (angel.cabrera@ucavila.es)

Interests: Human concept learning, machine learning, educational technology

Affiliations:

• Universidad Catolica de Avila (1996-present): Adjunto al Rector
• Andersen Consulting (1995-1996): Manager, Change Management Division
• Georgia Institute of Technology (1993-1995): PhD, Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science
• Georgia Institute of Technology (1991-1993): MS, Experimental Psychology
• Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (1985-1990): Telecommunications Engineer

Current Address:

Universidad Catolica de Avila

Rastro 2

E-05001 Avila

Emilio Camahort (ecamahor@cs.utexas.edu)

Interests: Computer Graphics: radiance-based modeling and rendering, interactive rendering, multiresolution representations, image compression.

Affiliations:

• The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences (1993-present): PhD Student

Current Address:

The University of Texas at Austin

Department of Computer Sciences

Taylor Hall 2.126

Austin TX 78712-1188

Jaime Castillo Escudero (jaime@tecnova.es)

Interests: Bases de datos, especialmente BD activas; ingenieria software, y en particular garantia de calidad; health information systems.

Affiliations:

• Tecnova , consultores e ingenieros de sistemas de informacion
• Univ. of Southern California, Department of Computer Science (1991-1992) M.Sc. student

Current Address:

Tecnova

c/Velazquez, 94 - 4 izda.

28006 Madrid

Rufo-Javier De Francisco (rdefran@gomez.sc.intel.com)

Interests:

Affiliations:

• Intel Corporation, MicroComputer Labs (1992-present): Senior Software Engineer
• University of Arizona, Department of Computer Science (1990-1992): M.S. Computer Science
• Northern Arizona University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (1989-1990): Computer Science and Engineering
• Universidad de Salamanca, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas (1983-1988): Licenciado en Ciencias Fisicas (Electronica)

Current Address:

MicroComputer Software Labs

Intel Corporation

2200 Mission College Blvd.

Santa Clara, CA-95052

Yolanda Gil (gil@isi.edu)

Interests: Artificial Intelligence: planning and problem solving, knowledge acquisition and machine learning, knowledge-based systems, robotics and manufacturing, AI applications.

Affiliations:

• University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute (1992-present): Senior Research Scientist
• University of Southern California, Computer Science Department (1993-present): Research Assistant professor
• Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department (1986-1992): PhD student

Current Address:

Information Sciences Institute

University of Southern California

4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001

Marina del Rey, CA 90292

Manuel Hermenegildo (herme@fi.upm.es)

Interests: Advanced Compilation Techniques: Abstract Interpretation, Partial Evaluation, Program Specialization, Automatic Parallelization. High-Performance and Distributed Computing: Parallelism, Concurrency, Scalable Architectures. Declarative Programming and AI: Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Concurrent Logic Programming, Functional Programming, Functional/Logic Programming. Program Execution Visualization.

Affiliations:

• Technical University of Madrid, School of Computer Science, Department of Artificial Intelligence, (1990-1995): Assistant Professor, (1995-...): Full Professor, (1990-...): leader of the CLIP Research Group.
• Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), (1986-1990): Reasearch Staff, PAL Research Group Leader.
• University of Texas at Austin, Computer Science Department (1986-1990): Adjunct Professor
• University of Texas at Austin, Computer Science Department (1983-1986): PhD student

Current Address:

Facultad de Informatica

Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

28660-Boadilla del Monte, MADRID

SPAIN

Juan León (juan+@cmu.edu)

Interests: Distributed, parallel, high performance computing; Computer Architecture; Fault tolerance; CORBA, DCE, Java; Fast and large I/O, High speed networks, anything that screams.

Affiliations:

• Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science (3000 B.C - present): PhD (gradual student)
• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Advanced Systems Group (1995-present): Research Systems Programmer

Current Address:

School of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

5000 Forbes Avenue

Pittsburgh, Pa 15213

Miguel A. Lerma (mlerma@math.utexas.edu)

Interests: Computability and Complexity Models, System Administration, Neural Networks.

Affiliations: Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin: Graduate student

Current Address: Department of Mathematics University of Texas at Austin RLM 8.100 Austin, TX 78712

Pablo Molinero Fernández (molinero@stanford.edu)

Interests: Multimedia networking, high-speed networking, distributed and multimedia applications, information visualization.

Affiliations:

• Stanford University, Multimedia Networking Group (1995-present): Ph.D. Student
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), Escuela Técnica Superior Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (1988-94): Telecommunications Eng. Student
• École Nationale Supérieure des Télécomunications de Paris (France), Computer Science Department (1992-94): Telecommunications Eng. Student
• Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid (Spain), Physics Department (1989-95): M.S. Physics Student

Current Address:

Multimedia Networking Group

Stanford University

Gates Blg (room 341)

Stanford, CA 94305

Jose F. Martinez (martinez@cs.uiuc.edu)

Interests: (Research field) Parallel computer architectures design and simulation: memory hierarchies, interconnection networks. (Vocational) Combinatorics: graph theory, combinatorial algorithms.

Affiliations:

• 1996-present: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. MS in Computer Sciences.
• 1990-1996: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Licenciado en Informática.

Current Address: