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Curriculum

Current Position

Ph.D. student in Computer Science (double program)

• National Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble, Laboratory LSR-IMAG, HADAS Database Group (ex-STORM)
• Universidad de las Américas, CENTIA, Research Center of Information and Automation Technologies
• Advisors France:
  • Prof. Dr. Christine Collet (INPG),
  • Dr. Genoveva Vargas-Solar (CNRS)
• Advisors México:
  • Dr. José Luis Zechinelli-Martini (CENTIA-UDLAP),
  • Dr. Luciano García-Bañuelos (UAT)
    

Supported by the program to improve the teaching system of the public universities of México (PROMEP-SEP) and the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala.

Education

M.S. in Computer Science

• Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, 1997–1999
• Thesis entitled “Path planning for a robot arm”
• Highest rank in class (98/100)

B.S. in Computer Engineering

• Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, 1990–1995
• Graduated by the excellence program option.
• Highest rank in class (9/10).

Complementary

• 5th Summer school on Distributed Systems. Mixed French-Mexican laboratory in computer science, Ensenada B.C., Mexico, 2006.
• 4th Summer school on Distributed Systems. Mixed French-Mexican laboratory in computer science, Grenoble, France, 2005.
• 3rd Summer school on Distributed Systems. Mixed French-Mexican laboratory in computer science, Puebla, Mex, 2004.
  
• “Diploma in university teaching”. IberoAmerican University, Puebla, Mex, 2003.
• 4th Summer school on images and robotics. Mixed French-Mexican laboratory in computer science, Puebla, Mex, 2003.
  
• “Speech issues course”. Intel Dialogic Tech summit, Miami, FL USA, 2000.
• “Speech application dialog design Course”. Nuance Speech University, Menlo Park, CA, USA, 2000.

Publications

• A. Portilla, G Vargas-Solar, C. Collet, J.L. Zechinelli-Martini, and L. García-Bañuelos. "Contract based behavior model for services coordination". To appear in J. Filipe and J. Cordeiro, editors, Web Information Systems and Technologies Third International Conference, Revised Selected Papers WEBIST 2007, volume 8 of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer, July 2008.
• A. Portilla, H. Tan and J.A. Espinosa-Oviedo. "Construire des applications fiables à base de services mobiles". Proceedings of the 4èmes journées Francophones Mobilité et Ubiquité. UbiMob'08, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. Saint-Malo,France. Mai 2008.
• A. Portilla, H. Tan and J.A. Espinosa-Oviedo. "Building reliable mobile services based applications". In Data and Services Management in Mobile Environments (DS2ME) workshop proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering. ICDE 2008, IEEE Computer Society. Cancun México, April 2008.
• A. Portilla, G. Vargas-Solar, C. Collet, J.L. Zechinelli-Martini, L. Garcia-Banuelos, and V. Hernandez-Baruch. "Rose: a transactional services coordination engine". In Proceedings of the 23emes Journees Bases de Donness Avancees. BDA 2007, Marseille, France, October 2007.
• V. Hernandez-Baruch, A. Portilla, and J.L. Zechinelli-Martini. "Rose: A transactional services coordination engine". In 8th Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC 2007). ENC-SMCC, IEEE Computer Society, Morelia, México, September 2007.
• A. Portilla, G. Vargas-Solar, J.L. Zechinelli-Martini, C. Collet and L. García Bañuelos, "A flexible model for providing transactional behavior to services coordination in an ortoghonal way". In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems (WEBIST 2007), STICC Press. Barcelone, Spain. March 2007.
• A. Portilla, G. Vargas-Solar, J.L. Zechinelli-Martini, C. Collet and L. García-Bañuelos, "Towards a transactional services coordination model", In Proceedings of the Tenth International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2006), IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 978-0-7695-2577-8. New Delhi, India. Decembre 2006.
• A. Portilla,G. Vargas-Solar, J.L. Zechinelli-Martini ,C. Collet and L. García-Bañuelos, "A survey for analyzing transactional behavior in service based applications", Procedings of the 7th Mexican International Conference on Computer Science, ENC'06, IEEE Computer Society, San Luis Potosí, México, September 18-22, 2006.
• A. Portilla, "Providing Transactional Behavior to Services Coordination", Proceedings of the VLDB 2006 Ph.D. Workshop, CEUR Vol-170, Seoul, Rep. of Korea, September 11, 2006,CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.
• A. Portilla and J. M. Ahuactzin, “Planificación de Trayectorias basada en un Incremento Inteligente del Conocimiento del Espacio de Trabajo”, In Proceedings of the CONIELECOMP 2004, Veracruz, México Febrero 2004.
• J.M. Ahuactzin and A. Portilla, "A Basic Algorithm and Data Structures for Sensor-Based Path Planning in Unknown Enviroments", In Proceedings of the IROS 2000, IEEE Computer Society, Takamatsu, Japan. October 2000.
• A. Portilla and J.M. Ahuactzin, "Planificación de Trayectorias para un Brazo Robot en un Ambiente Desconocido", In Proceedings of the Segundo Encuentro Internacional de Computación ENC'99 de la SMCC. Septiembre 1999.
• F. Farfán, H. Cuayáhuitl, and A. Portilla, “Evaluating Dialogue Strategies in a Spoken Dialogue System for Email”, In Proceedings of the IASTED Artificial Intelligence and Applications, ACTA Press, Manalmádena, Spain, Septiembre 2003.
• F. Farfán, H. Cuayahuitl and A. Portilla, ¿Comó evaluar aplicaciones de dialogo hablado en un Contac Center?. Revista bimestral E-contact del Instituto Mexicano de Telemarketing, Julio-Agosto 2003.
• R. Cazares, M. Luna and A. Portilla, "TD_UAT: Un Sistema de Recuperación de Información en Tesis Digitales", In Proceedings of the Congreso Interuniversitario de Electrónica, Computación y Eléctrica 2003, IEEE Computer Society, Zacatepec, México. Abril del 2003.

Experiency

• Full Time Lecturer, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala.
• Engineering Manager, Kranon S.A. de C.V.
• Part Time Lecturer, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala.
• Computer Department Manager, Plásticos Especiales Garen.
• Service Engineer, Kranon S.A. de C.V.
• Programmer, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala.

Teaching

Graduate (MS in Computer Science with 6 credits per curse and 64 Theory hours)

• Computer Architecture
• Research Methodology

Undergraduate (Computer Engineering with 4 to 6 Credits and 45 to 60 Theory hours)

• Thesis Project I
• Thesis Project II
• Human Computer Interaction
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work
• Data Structures
• System Software
• Imperative Programming
• Databases

Other research activities

• Staff member of the International Conference on Data Engineering ICDE-2008.
• Webmaster of the french site of the French-Mexican laboratory in computer science from 2005 to 2006.
• Member of the Logistic Local Committee of the Encuentro Internacional en Computación ENC-03.
• Member of the Logistic Local Committee of the Summer school on images and robotics, 2003 . Mixed French-Mexican laboratory in computer science.