Research Corner

Sorry, but from here on there is some stuff in Spanish! (the language depends on the main title)

• El Juego de Publicar
  (The Publishing Game)
• Seminario de Resolución de Problemas (1995-2001)
• Visualization in Software and Information Retrieval
  (Visualización en Software y Recuperación de Información)
• Visual Programming
  (Programación Visual)
• Seminario de Visualización (1997)

• AMYRI: CYTED Project on Searching the Web which was born from the algorithms group of the RITOS Iberoamerican Network for CS Research funded by CYTED between 1994 and 1998.

Students

• Ph.D.:
  • Barbara Poblete, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Web Mining)
  • Liliana Calderón, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Query Mining)
  • Cristina González, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Query Mining)
  • Ximena Olivares, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Multimedia Retrieval, jointly with Roelof Van Zwol)
  • Christian Middleton, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Web Mining)

Links to some of my old Ph.D. students

• Gonzalo Navarro (Ph.D., finished in December of 1998 at Univ. of Chile)
• Jesús Vegas (Ph.D., finished in May of 1999 at Univ. of Valladolid co-guided with Pablo de la Fuente and working on Visualization in Information Retrieval)
• Edgar Chavez (Ph.D., finished in September of 1999 at CIMAT, México, co-guided with Jose Luis Marroquín working in Metric Data Structures)
• Carlos (Chato) Castillo, Yahoo! Research (Ph.D., finished in Nov of 2004 at Univ. of Chile working in Web Crawling)
• Claudine Badue, Univ. Federal de Espirito Santo, Brazil (finished in 2007 from UFMG co-guided with Nivio Ziviani and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto working in Distributed Search Engines)
• Marcelo Mendoza, Univ. de Valparaiso, Chile (finished in 2007 from Univ. of Chile co-guided with Carlos Hurtado working in Mining Web Queries)
• Omar Alonso, A9, USA (finished in 2008 from UC David co-guided with Michael Gertz in Temporal Information Retrieval)
• Alvaro Pereira, Yahoo!, USA (finished in 2008 from UFMG co-guided with Nivio Ziviani working in Web Mining)