Esteban Meneses 1942 S Orchard St. Apt A, Urbana, IL 61801 217-344-0218 (esteban.meneses@acm.org) Personal Data Passport Number: 303610389 Country of Origin: Costa Rica Civil status: married. Academic Interests Education Distributed Computing: timestamp systems, consistency protocols. High Performance Computing: architectures, parallel programming. Web Mining: link analysis, symbolic data analysis. Compiler Construction: register allocation, typing systems. Masters in Computer Science. Costa Rica Institute of Technology, 2004-2007. Graduated with honors (Magna Cum Laude). Grade average: 9.6 over 10. BA in Computing Engineering. Costa Rica Institute of Technology, 1997-2001. Graduated with honors. Grade average: 9.3 over 10. Some courses of BA in Math. University of Costa Rica, 1998-2004. Grade average: 9.2 over 10. Awards and Memberships Excellence Challenge Prize, Best Professor in Computer Engineering. Procter&Gamble, Costa Rica, 2007. Graduated with Honors, Masters in Computer Science. 2007. Costa Rica Institute of Technology, Paper Convergence Through a Weak Consistency Model: Timed Causal Consistency selected one of the best articles on XXX Latin American Conference on Informatics. Arequipa, Perú, 2004. Professional Membership of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). Since 2002. Graduated with Honors, BA in Computing Engineering. Costa Rica Institute of Technology, 2001. Best Grade Average of the School of Mathematics in year 1998. University of Costa Rica, 1999. Teaching Computing Engineering School Adjunct Professor Costa Rica Institute of Technology (ITCR) 2001-2007 Algorithms and Data Structures 1: II semester-2001 y I semester-2005. Computer Organization. II semester-2002 y II semester-2004. Algorithms and Data Structures 2: II semester-2005 y I semester-2006. Programming Languages. I semester-2003. Compilers and Interpreters: I semester-2002, II semester-2004 y I semester-2007. Artificial Intelligence. II semester-2004, I semester-2006 y I semester-2007. Operating Systems Principles. I semester-2005 y II semester-2005. Operation Research: II semester-2006. Software Engineering Department Instructor Cenfotec 2005-2006 Data Structures 2: II y III cycle-2005, I, II y III cycle,2006. Computer Architecture. I cycle-2005.
Research Projects Computing Research Center (CIC, ITCR) National Cluster for Advanced Research Cartago, Costa Rica January, 2007 - July, 2007 Subproject ADN (National Data Analysis). Implementation of a portal for analyzing national data. Use of D2K tool from NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications). Research in techniques of machine learning for discovering patterns in national databases. Computing Research Center (CIC, ITCR) Klá Cartago, Costa Rica January, 2005 - December, 2006 Klá = net in cabécar language. Research and experimentation in Web mining. Analysis of Costa Rican web. Research on strategies for clasifying web objects. Computing Research Center (CIC, ITCR) SPREAD Cartago, Costa Rica July, 2004 - December, 2006 SPREAD = Systems and Consistency Protocols for Distribuited Environments. Research and experimentation on timestamping systems. Research on consistency protocols for distributed systems. Publications Distributed Computing Quirós-Ramírez, María A., Yuan-Hao Chiang and Esteban Meneses. ATLAS: A Real-Time HTML Document Colaborative Edition System with Multiple Consistency Levels (in Spanish). XXXIII Latin American Conference on Informatics. San José, Costa Rica. October, 2007. Quesada Sánchez, Carlos E. and Esteban Meneses. Web Caching Replacement Policies (in Spanish). Tecnología en Marcha. Magazine of the Costa Rica Institute of Technology. Vol 19(4). October-December, 2006. Rodríguez-Ramírez Iyubanit, Esteban Meneses and Francisco J. Torres-Rojas. SEND: Distributed Executions Simulator (in Spanish). XIII Encuentro Chileno de Computación. Jornadas Chilenas de Computación. Valdivia, Chile. November, 2005. Meneses, Esteban and Francisco J. Torres-Rojas. A Set Problem in Distributed Computing (in Spanish). Revista Virtual de Matemática, Educación e Internet. Magazine of the School of Mathematics, Costa Rica Institute of Technology. October, 2005. Meneses, Esteban and Francisco J. Torres-Rojas. Time and Order Considerations in Consistency Models for Web Caching. The 2005 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. June, 2005. Torres-Rojas, Francisco J. and Esteban Meneses. Applying Sequential Consistency to Web Caching. The 2005 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. June, 2005. Torres-Rojas, Francisco J., Esteban Meneses and Alexander Carballo. Developing a Web Caching Architecture with Configurable Consistency: A Proposal. International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. Miami, Florida, United States. May, 2005. Torres-Rojas, Francisco J. and Esteban Meneses. Analyzing Convergence in Consistency Models for Distributed Objects. The 8th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS). Grenoble, France. December, 2004. Torres-Rojas, Francisco J. and Esteban Meneses. Timed Consistency: Unifying Model of Consistency Protocols in Distributed Systems. X Congreso Argentino en Ciencias de la Computación. Buenos Aires, Argentina. October, 2004. Torres-Rojas, Francisco J. and Esteban Meneses. Convergence Through a Weak Consistency Model: Timed Causal Consistency. XXX Latin American Conference on Informatics. Arequipa, Perú. September, 2004. Meneses, Esteban and Francisco J. Torres-Rojas. Possible and Impossible Vector Clock Sets.
The 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. June, 2004. Torres-Rojas, Francisco J. and Esteban Meneses. Some Interesting Properties About Vectorial Clocks (in Spanish). Workshop en Sistemas Distribuidos y Paralelismo. Jornadas Chilenas de Computación. Chillán, Chile. November, 2003. Parallel Computing Araya-Fernández, Laura, Ricardo León-Peralta, Esteban Meneses and José Castro. A Parallel Implementation of Fuzzy ARTMAP in the High Performance Platform D2K (in Spanish). Workshop en Inteligencia Artificial. Jornadas Chilenas de Computación. Iquique, Chile. November, 2007. Web Mining Meneses, Esteban and Oldemar Rodríguez-Rojas. Measuring Contribution of HTML Features in Web Document Clustering. XXXIII Latin American Conference on Informatics. San José, Costa Rica. October, 2007. Meneses, Esteban. Characterizing the Structure of Central American Web. XXXIII Latin American Conference on Informatics. San José, Costa Rica. October, 2007. Cháves, Warner, Juan Morán and Esteban Meneses. Klá: A Crawler for Costa Rican Web (in Spanish). Tiempo Compartido. Magazine of the School of Computing Engineering, Costa Rica Institute of Technology. Vol(7): 2. May, 2007. Meneses, Esteban and Oldemar Rodríguez-Rojas. A Symbolic Representation for Distributed Web Document Clustering (poster). 4th Latin American Web Congress. Cholula, México. October, 2006. Meneses, Esteban. Vectors and Graphs: Two Representations to Cluster Web Sites Using Hyperstructure. 4th Latin American Web Congress. Cholula, México. October, 2006. Meneses, Esteban and Oldemar Rodríguez-Rojas. Using Symbolic Objects to Cluster Web Documents (poster). 15th International World Wide Web Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland. May, 2006. Meneses, Esteban. Mining the Costa Rican Web. International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. Setúbal, Portugal. April, 2006. Compiler Construction Meneses, Esteban and Francisco J. Torres-Rojas. Register Allocation Techniques in a Compiler: Part II (in Spanish). Tiempo Compartido. Magazine of the School of Computing Engineering, Costa Rica Institute of Technology. Vol(6): 1. August, 2005. Meneses, Esteban and Francisco J. Torres-Rojas. Register Allocation Techniques in a Compiler: GCC vs C+- (in Spanish). XII Encuentro Chileno de Computación, Jornadas Chilenas de Computación. Arica, Chile. November, 2004. Meneses, Esteban and Francisco J. Torres-Rojas. Register Allocation Techniques in a Compiler : Part I (in Spanish). Tiempo Compartido. Magazine of the School of Computing Engineering, Costa Rica Institute of Technology. April, 2001. Book Review Meneses, Esteban. Words and Rules (in Spanish). Tiempo Compartido. Magazine of the School of Computing Engineering, Costa Rica Institute of Technology. Vol(6): 3. August, 2006. Seminars and Presentations 4th Latin American Web Congress Puebla, México October, 2006 Presenting the papers Vectors and Graphs: Two Representations to Cluster Web Sites Using Hyper-
structure and A Symbolic Representation for Distributed Web Document Clustering (poster). International World Wide Web Conference Edinburgh, Scotland May, 2006 Presenting the paper Using Symbolic Objects to Cluster Web Documents (poster). Jornadas Chilenas de Computación Valdivia, Chile November, 2005 Presenting the paper SEND: Distributed Execution Simulator. Grid World 2005 Student Scholarship Boston, Massachusetts, United States October, 2005 Conference organized by Global Grid Forum. The 2005 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications Las Vegas, Nevada, United States June, 2005 Presenting the paper Time and Order Considerations in Consistency Models for Web Caching. Conferencia Latinoamericana de Estudios en Informática Arequipa, Perú September, 2004 Presenting the paper Convergence Through a Weak Consistency Model: Timed Causal Consistency. Jornadas Chilenas de Computación Chillán, Chile November, 2003 Presenting the paper Some Interesting Properties About Vectorial Clocks..net Training Tour Attendee San José, Costa Rica November, 2001 Training on.net development platform. I Encounter of Mathematics Applied to Attendee Engineering, Computing and Science San José, Costa Rica February, 2001 Presentations about applications of mathematical methods. Industry Experience PrediSoft Research and Development San José, Costa Rica January, 2004 - March, 2005 Design and development of a neural network system. Development of systems for Principal Component Analysis. Development of systems for Time Series Analysis. ArtinSoft Corp Research and Development San José, Costa Rica January, 2001 - November, 2003 Development of several modules of a type guided compiler for a functional programming language. Development of a lightweight typing system for a functional programming language. Development of several modules of a typing system for a functional programming language. Tests TOEFL (paper based test) Date: 06/03/2006 Grade: 617 / 677 Register Number: 3375194 TOEFL (computer based test) Date: 20/05/2002 Grade: 260 / 300 Register Number: 8830000000183038 GRE General Test (computer based test) Date: 30/09/2002 Grade: Verbal = 460 (48%), Quantitative = 800 (94%), Analytical = 750 (91%)
Register Number: 6337-155 GRE Subject - Computer Science (paper based test) Date: 13/12/2003 Grade: 830 (87%) Register Number: 7873120 Technical skills Programming Languages: Java, C++, C, ML, Scheme, Lisp, C#, Pascal, Delphi, Smalltalk. Operating Systems: Windows, Linux. Databases: SQL Server. Activities Arts: reading, clasic guitar, acting. Sports: soccer, gym, swimming. Tourism: national parks, archeological sites.