Contact Information
Mailing/Courier Address
Carleton University School of Computer Science 5302 Herzberg Building 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 Canada
Office Hours
- By appointment
Home Page
Phone/Fax
- Tel.: +1-613-878-3344
- Fax: +1-319-856-4158
- Skype: cesar.astudillo
Biography
César Astudillo was born in Concepción, Chile, on September 1977. He received his B.Sc. and Eng. degrees from the University of Concepción, Chile, in 2002. He has been at the University of Talca, Chile, since 2004 in the Engineering Faculty, where He is currently an Assistant Lecturer of the Computer Science Department. At this moment, He is pursuing his doctoral studies at Carleton University, Canada.
Education
- PhD (c) Computer Science, Carleton University. Currently pursuing
- Computer Engineering. University of Concepción. 2002
- B.Sc. Engineering Sciences, University of Concepción. 2002
Grants and Scholarships
- Awarded departmental scholarship, Carleton University (2006 through present)
- Exchange Internship, Autonomous University of Nuevo León. 2001
Publications
Articles Submitted to Refereed Journals
- César A. Astudillo and B. John Oommen. Imposing Tree-based Topologies onto Self Organizing Maps. Submitted in December, 2008.
Conference Papers
- César A. Astudillo and B. John Oommen. A Novel Self Organizing Map Which Utilizes Imposed Tree-based Topologies. 6th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems. 2009. This talk was a Plenary/Keynote Talk at the Conference. [Abstract] [BibTeX][PDF]
- Alfredo Candia and César A. Astudillo. Algoritmos para el Problema de las n-reinas. Proceedings of the 30th Latin-American Conference on Informatics. 2004. (Spanish) [Abstract] [BibTeX][PDF]
- Federico Meza, Ruth Garrido, César A. Astudillo. Un Lenguaje de Bajo Nivel como Apoyo al Aprendizaje en el Primer Curso de Programación de las Carreras de Ingeniería. Revista Electrónica de la Sociedad Chilena de Ciencia de la Computación. Vol. 4, Núm. 1, 2003. ISSN 0717-4276. (Spanish) [Abstract] [BibTeX][PDF]
Presentations Given at Workshops and Conferences
- Alfredo Candia and César A. Astudillo. Un Algoritmo de Búsqueda Local para el Problema de las n-reinas. V Workshop en Inteligencia Artificial. 2004. (Spanish)
Theses
- PhD Thesis. "Data Structure Constrained Self-Organizing Maps". Carleton University. (Currently in progress)
- B. Sc. Final Project. "Desarrollo Evolutivo de Individuos Artificiales Utilizando Técnicas de Vida Artificial". University of Concepción. 2002 (Spanish)
Research
His research interests include, but are not limited to:- Hierarchical Self-Organizing maps.
- Adaptive Data Structures.
- Unsupervised Learning and Clustering.
Work
Up to the present days, his professional experience has been ligated to the academic world.- Research Assistant, Carleton University. 2006-present
- Instructor, Carleton University. 2007-2008
- Assistant Lecturer, University of Talca. 2002-present
- Teacher Assistant, University of Concepción. 1998-2001