ALFREDO WEITZENFELD

Professor

Computer Engineering Department

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

Río Hondo #1, San Angel Tizapán, CP 01000, México D.F., MEXICO

of (52-55) 56284000, ext 3614, fax (52-55) 56284065

email: alfredo@itam.mx

web: http://www.cannes.itam.mx/Alfredo/English/Alfredo.htm


Education

1987-1992

PhD, Computer Science, Dic. 1992, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

1984-1985

MS, Computer Engineering, Mayo 1985, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

1977-1982

BS, Electrical Engineering, Mayo 1982, TECHNION, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel


Academic Experience

2006-2007 (Sabbatical)

Visiting Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Dept, College of Engineering, University of South Florida, FL

2005 (Summer)

Visiting Professor, Computer Engineering Dept, School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, CA

2004 (Summer)

Visiting Professor, School of Information and Computer Science, University of California Irvine, CA

2003 (Summer)

Visiting Professor, School of Information and Computer Science, University of California Irvine, CA

2002-present

Robotics Laboratory Director, Computer Engineering Department, ITAM, Mexico, D.F.

1995-present

Biorobotics (CANNES) Laboratory Director, Computer Engineering Department, ITAM, Mexico, D.F.

1994-present

Professor, Computer Engineering Department, ITAM, Mexico, D.F.

1993

Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, USC, Los Angeles, CA.


Funded Research Projects

2005-2007

LAFMI-CONACYT (ISC-CNRS): "A Natural Language Interface for Command and Control of Robots"

 

2004-2007

UC-MEXUS-CONACYT (UCSC): "Networked SEREBROs: Ad-Hoc Networking for Collaborative Search and Rescue Biomimetic Robots"

 

2004-2007

NSF-CONACYT (UCI): "Visually-guided NeuroEthological Autonomous Robots: An Adaptive Middleware Approach to Distributed Embedded Mobile Systems"

 

2001-2003

UC-MEXUS-CONACYT (UCI): "Miro:Adaptive Middleware for a Mobile Internet Robot Laboratory"

1998-2001

CONACYT-REDII: "Neural Modeling and Simulation in the Web"

1996-1999

NSF-CONACYT (USC): "Multi-Level Simulation Methodology: A Computational and Experimental Approach to Neural Systems"

1995-1998

NSF-CONACYT (Georgia Tech): "Ecological Robots: A Schema-based Approach"


Membership

1997-present

Doctoral Advising Member, Engineering School, UNAM, Mexico

1995-present

Member, National Research System (SNI), Mexico


Editorial Board

2007-present

Journal of Artificial Neural Systems

2006-present

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems


Books

2002

The Neural Simulation Language: A System for Brain Modeling

2004

Object-Oriented Software Engineering with UML, Java e Internet


Publications