Contact Information Name: Andres Mendez-Vazquez Research Professor CURRICULUM VITAE Address: CINVESTAV Unit Guadalajara Av. Del Bosque 1145, Col. El Bajo, Zapopan, Jalisco, 45015, Mexico Telephone: +52(33)3777-3600 Ext 1052 E-mail: amendez@gdl.cinvestav.mx URL: http://www.gdl.cinvestav.mx/amendez/ Education May 2009 May 2008 Postdoctoral in Ambience Intelligence University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Dissertation Adviser: Paul D. Gader Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Information Fusion and Sparsity Promotion Using Choquet Integrals December 2002 Master of Sciences in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA January 1999 Bachelor of Mathematics University of Yucatan, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico Thesis Adviser: Maria Concepcion Fuentes Florencia Ph.D. Thesis Title: L-Fuzzy Sets: An introduction 1
Employment History Research Professor, CINVESTAV unit Guadalajara Postdoctoral scholar, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), University of Florida under Professor Sumi Helal Graduate Research Assistant, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), University of Florida under Professor Paul D. Gader. Graduate Research Assistant, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), University of Florida under Professor Mark Schmalz. Teaching Assistant, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), University of Florida. CDA 3101 Introduction to Computer Organization. Fall 2009 - Present Summer 2008 - Spring 2009 Fall 2002 - Spring 2008 Summer 2002 - Fall 2002 Fall 2001 - Spring 2002 Research Experience Research Professor CINVESTAV Unit Guadalajara August 2009 - Present Machine Learning and Data Mining Numerical Optimization and Statistical Methods Information Fusion Artificial Intelligence Analysis of Algorithms Computer Vision Projects Cinvestav Researcher 2009 - Present Oracle 2013 - Present: A collaboration to improve the indexing in B+ Tree Data Structures using concurrency and lock-free techniques. 2
Fuerza Aerea Mexicana 2014 - Present: The design and creation of a simulator for helicopter training. Wisemex 2013: A collaboration with the company Wisemex to produce a series of algorithms for: Forecasting of energy consumption. Identification of sources of consumption. Modutram, 2010-2012: The project, promoted by a group of companies and Mexican educational institutions, is called LINT (Lean Intelligent Network Transportation), is a system of automated urban transport. We were in charge of: The simulator system design. The load balancing traffic algorithm, and the algorithm for best route. IBM Guadalajara, Smart Hiring, 2009 : We proposed a design for a datamining engine at the social network sites in order to seek the best matching for positions at the IBM site Guadalajara. Postdoctoral Research Scholar Obesity and Diabetes Studies in Intelligent Environments, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), University of Florida under Professor Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal. May 2008 - May 2009 Developed a sensor fusion algorithm based in itemset frequency and the Choquet integral for event detection aimed to study the caloric intake/outtake of people in an intelligent environment under the National Institute of Health Grant Number 1R21DA024294-01. Developed an algorithm based in fuzzy neural networks for sparsity promotion features aimed to the detection of events in intelligent environments. Developed simulation algorithms based in Markov chains, Poisson processes and distribution fitting for the simulation of events in intelligent environments. Helped to develop an algorithm for chewing detection based in the Fourier transform and motion detection under the National Institute of Health Grant Number 1R21DA024294-01. Graduate Research Assistant, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), University of Florida under Professor Paul D. Gader. January 2003 - May 2008 3
Developed and implemented a Minimum Classification Error fusion training algorithm using Sugeno measures and Choquet integral based on gradient decent optimization. Developed and implemented Sparsity Promoting Markov Chain Monte Carlo fusion training algorithms for general fuzzy measures, Choquet integral and Gaussian distributions. Developed and implemented Sparsity Promoting Markov Chain Monte Carlo Minimum Classification Error fusion training algorithms for Sparsity Promotion for general fuzzy measures, Choquet integral and Logistic Regression. Participated in the development of a multi-sensor and hyperspectral fusion framework for application to wide area landmine detection in the project Science of Land Target Spectral Signatures, U. S. Army Research Office Cooperative Agreement Number DAAD19-02-2-0012. Assisted in writing final report for the project Science of Land Target Spectral Signatures. Participated in the development of decision level fusion algorithms, testing software and final report for landmine detection for the project Feature-Based Methods for Landmine Detection with Ground Penetrating Radar, U. S. Army Research Office Cooperative Agreement Number DAAD19-02-2-0012. Assisted in the preparation of presentations for sponsored research review meetings. Coordinated the Seminar presentations for the landmine research group Fall 2002 - Summer 2004. Assisted in the design of information fusion algorithms in the project Optimized Multi-algorithm Systems for Detecting Explosive Objects Using Robust Clustering and Choquet Integration, National Science Foundation grant CBET-0730484. Graduate Research Assistant, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), University of Florida under Professor Mark Schmalz. May 2002 - December 2002 Participated in the implementation of a 3D reconstruction algorithm using level sets for BIOCAM: Biomimetic Camouflage for Dynamically Adaptive Target Concealment, Subcontract to Frontier Technology, Inc., Army STTR Phase 2 Contract number DACA42-02-C-0007, 1 Dec 2001 through 30 Nov 2003. 4
Researched techniques for concealment of vehicles for BIOCAM: Biomimetic Camouflage for Dynamically Adaptive Target Concealment, Subcontract to Frontier Technology, Inc., Army STTR Contract number DACA42-00-P-0276, 9 Aug 2000 through 15 Jan 2001. Assisted in the preparation of presentations for sponsored research review meetings. Assisted in the preparation of progress reports. Research Publications Refereed Journal Articles 1. R. Chavez-Alvarez, A. Chavoya and A. Mendez-Vazquez Discovery of Possible Gene Relationships through the Application of Self-Organizing Maps to DNA Microarray Databases, Plos One, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093233, April 03, 2014. 2. R. Rodriguez-Avila, G. Nuez-Vega, R. Parra-Michel and A. Mendez-Vazquez, Frequency- Selective Joint Tx/Rx I/Q Imbalance Estimation Using Golay Complementary Sequences, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.pp, no.99, pp.1,9, 0 doi: 10.1109/TWC.2013.040213.120622, May 2013. 3. H. Frigui, L. Zhang, P. D. Gader, J. N. Wilson, K.C. Ho, A. Mendez-Vazquez, An evaluation of several fusion algorithms for anti-tank landmine detection and discrimination, Information Fusion, Volume 13, Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 161-174. 4. J. Guadalupe Olascuaga-Cabrera, E. Lopez-Mellado, A. Mendez-Vazquez, and F. Ramos-Corchado, A Self-Organization Algorithm for Robust Networking of Wireless Devices, IEEE Sensor Journal, VOL. 11, NO. 3, march 2011. 5. A. Mendez-Vazquez, P. D. Gader, J. M. Keller, and K. Chamberlin, Minimum classification error training for Choquet integrals with applications to landmine detection, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, pp 225-238, February 2008 vol. 16, num 1. Refereed Conference Articles 1. A. Garcia-Garcia, A. Mendez-Vazquez, Learning Fuzzy Rules through Ant Optimization, LASSO and Dirichlet Mixture IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2014 (IEEE WCCI 2014), July 6-11, Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China. 2. R. Orozco-Lopez, A. Mendez-Vazquez, Fast and Robust Object Recognition Based on Reduced Shock-Graphs and Pruned-SIFT, Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2013), Pages 376-387 5
3. A. Sancen-Plaza Influence Maximization for Big Data through Entropy Ranking and Min-Cut, 9th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2013), October 20-23, 2013 Austin, Texas, United States. 4. D. E. Caro-Contreras, A. Mendez-Vazquez, Computing the Concept Lattice using Morphological Neural Networks submitted to The Tenth International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications, La Rochelle, France October 15-18, 2013 5. V. Fernandez, A. Mendez-Vazquez, R. Marco-Antonio and G. Monica, Fuzzy model based on RGBD images to Identify Biometrical Facial Geometry, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2013), Hydrebad, India July 7-10, 2013. 6. M. Carlos-Mancilla, J.G. Olascuaga-Cabrera, E. Lopez-Mellado, A. Mendez-Vazquez, Design and Implementation of a Robust Wireless Sensor Network, International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers CONIELECOMP 2013, 11-13 March 2013. 7. Olascuaga-Cabrera, J.G.; Mendez-Vazquez, A.; Lopez-Mellado, E.; A Novel Distributed Energy-Efficient Self-Organized Algorithm for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, 2012 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE),, vol., no., pp.19-26, 26-29 June 2012 doi: 10.1109/IE.2012.37 8. J. Guadalupe Olascuaga-Cabrera, E. Lopez-Mellado and A. Mendez-Vazquez, A Multi-objective PSO Strategy for Energy-efficient Ad-Hoc Networking, The 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2011) October 9-12, 2011 Anchorage, Alaska. 9. J. G. Olascuaga-Cabrera, A. Mendez-Vazquez and E. Lopez-Mellado, Wireless Network Formation and Maintaining for Mobile Devices Based on Self-organization Strategies, Proceedings of the The Fifth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology, September 20-25, 2010, Valencia, Spain 10. A. Mendez-Vazquez, A. Helal and D. J. Cook, Synthesizing Datasets for Pervasive Spaces, (Short Version) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, 20-21 July, 2009, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. 11. A. Helal, M, Schmalz and A. Mendez-Vazquez, Algorithms for the detection of chewing behavior in dietary monitoring applications, Procedings of Mathematics for Signal and Information Processing SPIE, 2009, San Diego, CA, USA. 6
12. A. Helal, A. Mendez-Vazquez, S. Hossain, Specification and Synthesis of Sensory Datasets in Pervasive Spaces, submitted to the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 09) to be held July 5-8, 2009, Sousse, Tunisia. 13. A. Mendez-Vazquez, A. Helal and D. Cook, Simulating Events to Generate Synthetic Data for Pervasive Spaces, Workshop on Developing Shared Home Behavior Datasets to Advance HCI and Ubiquitous Computing Research, in conjunction with the ACM HCI Conference to be held April 2009, MIT, Massachusetts, USA 14. A. Mendez-Vazquez and P. D. Gader, Learning Fuzzy Measure Parameters by Logistic LASSO, in Proceedings of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, New York, May 2008. 15. A. Mendez-Vazquez and P. D. Gader, Maximum a Posteriori EM MCE Logistic LASSO for Learning Fuzzy Measures, in Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress in Computational intelligence, Hong Kong, China, June 2008. 16. A. Mendez-Vazquez and P. D. Gader, Sparsity promotion models for the Choquet integral, in Proceeding of the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007. 17. P. Gader, A. Mendez-Vazquez, K. Chamberlin, J. Bolton, and A. Zare, Multi-sensor and algorithm fusion with the Choquet integral: applications to landmine detection, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, September 2004, pp. 1605-1608, vol 3. 18. M. A. Schatten, P. D. Gader, J. Bolton, A. Zare, and A. Mendez-Vazquez, Sensor fusion for airborne landmine detection, in Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 6217, May 2006, CID 62172F. 19. P. Gader, L. Wen-Hsiung, and A. Mendez-Vazquez, Continuous Choquet integrals with respect to random sets with applications to landmine detection, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Budapest, Hungary, July 2004, pp. 523-528 vol. 1. Book Chapters 1. Book Embedded and Networking Systems: Design, Software, and Implementation, Chapter Cluster-based Networking for MANETs Using Selg-Organization, Series: Devices, Circuits, and Systems, Published: September 24, 2013 by Chapman and Hall/CRC 7
Technical Reports 1. M. Schmalz, A. Mendez-Vazquez, and A. Helal, Dietary Monitoring for Diabetes and Obesity: Early Algorithm for Detection and Quantification of Chewing Behavior, Technical Report MPCL-08-08, May 2008. http://www.icta.ufl.edu/projects/ publications/schmalz08a.pdf Teaching Experience Professor, Cinvestav GDL, Optimization for Computer Science Problems. Summer 2010, Fall 2011 Professor, Cinvestav GDL, Machine Learning/Data Summer 2010 - Summer 2014 Mining. Professor, Cinvestav GDL, Artificial Intelligence. Spring 2010 - Spring 2014 Professor, Cinvestav GDL, Analysis of Algorithms Fall 2009 - Fall 2014 and Complexity. Substitute Teaching Assistant, COP 3530 Data Structures and Algorithms. Spring 2002 Taught a weekly 1-hour class homework discussion session; held a weekly 2-hour office hours; supervised quizzes and exams; graded homework and exams. Teaching Assistant, CDA 3101 Introduction to Computer Organization. Fall 2001 - Spring 2002 Taught a weekly 1-hour class homework discussion session; supervised quizzes and exams; held a weekly 3-hour office hours; assisted in test preparation; graded homework and exams. Web-Published Materials Dissertation Information Fusion and Sparsity Promotion Using Choquet Integrals. Seminar slides in MCMC and sampling methods. Seminar slides in Dempster-Schaffer Belief theory. Notes in Choquet integral Theory. 8
Other Professional Experiences & Skills Leadership Positions Registrar Officer for the conference Ubicomp 2009 Sept 30 - Oct 3, Orlando, Florida USA. Treasurer, ASCIE: Association of Graduate Students in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), University of Florida, Fall 2006 - Spring 2007. Founding officer, participated in the creation and initial organization of the association. Actively participated in planning and running organizational events. Benton Engineering Council Representative, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Departments representative to the Benton Engineering Council, University of Florida, Fall 2006 - Spring 2007. Graduate Student Council Representative, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Departments representative to the Graduate Student Council, University of Florida, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008. Volunteer in the CISE - ACM - ASCIE career fair Fall 2007 - Spring 2008. Conference reviewer IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. 2009 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference. Technical Skills Scientific Environments: expertise in Matlab, R, and proficiency in Mathematica. Programming Languages: expertise in Java, and proficiency on C and C++. Application programming interfaces: proficiency in OpenGL and CUDA. Operating Systems: expertise Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, OSX, Windows. Document Markup Language: proficiency in HTML, and expertise in LaTex. 9
Language Skills Spanish - Native speaker. English - Fluent speaker and read/write with proficiency. Research interest Choquet integral theory, fuzzy set theory, numerical optimization, statistical methods, stochastic processes methods and information fusion methods for applications in: Data Mining and Machine Learning Algorithms. Graphical Models for Data Mining and Machine Learning. Analysis of Algorithms. Information Fusion. Computer Vision. 10
References Paul D. Gader, Ph.D. Professor Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering University of Florida - P.O. Box 116120 Gainesville, FL 32611-6120 USA CSE Building Room E356 Office Phone: (352) 392-1526 Email: pgader@cise.ufl.edu James M. Keller, Ph.D. Professor University of Missouri - Columbia Columbia, MO 65211-2060 Email: KellerJ@missouri.edu Gerhard X. Ritter, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering University of Florida - P.O. Box 116120 Gainesville, FL 32611-6120 USA CSE Building Room E364 Office Phone: (352) 392-1536 Email: ritter@cise.ufl.edu Joseph N. Wilson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering University of Florida - P.O. Box 116120 Gainesville, FL 32611-6120 USA CSE Building Room E358 11
Office Phone: (352) 392-1360 Email: jnw@cise.ufl.edu Mark Schmalz, Ph.D. Associated Scientist Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering University of Florida - P.O. Box 116120 Gainesville, FL 32611-6120 USA CSE Building Room E446 Office Phone: (352) 392-6831 Email: mssz@cise.ufl.edu Abdelsalam Helal, Ph.D. Professor Director of the Harris Mobile Computing Laboratory Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering University of Florida - P.O. Box 116120 Gainesville, FL32611-6120 USA CSE Building Room E448 Office Phone: (352) 392-6845 Email: helal@cise.ufl.edu 12