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This site contains information for prospective graduate and undergraduate students as well as information about students that I am supervising (co-supervising).

Postdocs

  1. Israel Cruz Vega. Adaptive surrogate modeling based on neuro-fuzzy techniques. Sponsored by CONCACyT, August 2013 – July 2015.

PhD thesis

  1. Horacio Jarquín Vásquez. (co-supervised with Dr. Manuel Montes) Computer Science Department, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. (Expected graduation Winter 2024)
  2. María Fernanda Hernández Luquin. Computer Science Department, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. (Expected graduation Spring 2022)
  3. Miguel A. Palacios. (co-supervised with Dr. Enrique Sucar) Computer Science Department, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. (Expected graduation Autumn 2023)
  4. Jesús García Ramírez (co-supervised with Dr. Eduardo Morales) Computer Science Department, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. (Expected graduation Winter 2021)
  5. Mauricio González Soto (co-supervised with Dr. Enrique Sucar) Computer Science Department, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. (Graduated September 2021)
  6. Lino A. Rodriguez C. (co-supervised with Dr. Alicia Morales) Computer Science Department, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. (Graduated on July 2020)
  7. Jorge A. Vanegas. (co-supervised with Dr. Fabio A. Gonzalez) Computer Science Department, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. (Graduated on June 2018)
  8. Adrian Pastor Lopez. (co-supervised with Dr. Manuel Montes) Computer Science Department, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. (Graduated on January 2017) Best PhD Thesis on Artificial Intelligence Award, granted by SMIA
  9. Luis Pellegrin. (co-supervised with Dr. Manuel Montes) Computer Science Department, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. (Graduated October 2017)
  10. Víctor Ponce-López (co-supervised with Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró). Evolutionary Bags of Space-Time Features for Human Analysis. Universitat de Barcelona (Graduated on June 2016).

Master thesis

  1. Luis Joaquín Arellano Muñoz. Detección de incidentes violentos en México usando información multimodal de redes sociales. INAOE, Expected graduation: Autumn 2022. Director: Hugo Jair Escalante, Co-Director: Luis Villaseñor
  2. Karla Maria Valencia Segura. Detección automática de usuarios con depresión en redes sociales mediante fusión de caracterizaciones diversas. INAOE, Expected graduation: Autumn 2022. Director: Luis Villaseñor, Co-Director: Hugo Jair Escalante.
  3. Itzel Tlelo Coyotecatl. Enfoque de recuperación de pasajes para la detección de depresión en redes sociales. INAOE, Expected graduation: Winter 2021. Director: Manuel Montes, Co-Director: Hugo Jair Escalante.
  4. Edgar Giovanni Vargas Ocampo. Aprendizaje autosupervisado para la detección de engaño utilizando información multimodal. INAOE, Expected graduation: Winter 2021. Director: Hugo Jair Escalante, Co-Director: Manuel Montes
  5. Guillermo Alexander Segura. Aprendizaje de Máquina Autónomo Adaptable al Desvío de Concepto. INAOE, Graduated on July 2020. Director: Hugo Jair Escalante.
  6. Dante López Rosas. Clasificación Temprana de Textos con Redes Neuronales. INAOE, Graduated February 2020. Director: Hugo Jair Escalante; Co-Director: Manuel Montes.
  7. Ana María Damián Santamaria. Sistema para el Diagnóstico Automático de Retinopatía Diabética. Universidad Politécnica de Puebla, Graduated February 2019. Director: Jorge de la Calleja; Co-Director: Hugo Jair Escalante.
  8. Jorge Gustavo Madrid Pérez. AutoText: AutoML para Clasificación de Texto. INAOE, Graduated November 2019. Director: Hugo Jair Escalante
  9. Ricardo Benítez Jiménez. Aprendizaje Supervisado por la Web basado en Información Multimodal de Imágenes. Graduated on November 2019. Director: Hugo Jair Escalante; Co-Director: Eduardo Morales.
  10. Rodrigo Rill García. Fusión de Información Multimodal para Detección de Engaño en Videos. INAOE, Graduated on September 2019. Director: Hugo Jair Escalante; Co-Director: Luis Villaseñor.
  11. Jordi Jaromil Cruz Medrano. Detección Automática de Conductores con Fatiga por medio del Aprendizaje Profundo. Universidad Politécnica de Puebla, Graduated on October 2017. Director: Jorge de la Calleja; Co-Director: Hugo Jair Escalante.
  12. Sonia Maribel Gonzalez Lozoya. Sistema de Apoyo para la Evaluación Psicológica a través del Reconocimiento de Expresiones Faciales. Universidad Politécnica de Puebla, Graduated on October 2017. Director: Jorge de la Calleja; Co-Director: Hugo Jair Escalante.
  13. Mauricio García Limón. Computer Science Department, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. Thesis: Simultaneous generation of prototypes and features with genetic programming.(Graduated december 2014). Best MS in Artificial Intelligence Awared (granted by SMIA)
  14. Yared Sabinas Figueroa. (co-supervised with Dr. Eduardo Morales) Computer Science Department, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. Thesis: Reconocimiento anticipado de gestos. (Graduated november-2013).
  15. Harold Andrés Vásquez Chavarría. (co-supervised with Enrique Sucar) Computer Science Department, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. Thesis: A method for Simultaneous Segmentation and Recognition of Gestures. (Graduated September 6, 2013).
  16. Juan Manuel Cabrera. (co-supervised with Manuel Montes y Gomez), Computer Science Department, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. Thesis: Distributional Term Representations for Short-text Classification. (Graduated October 29, 2012).
  17. Karlo Mario Mendoza. Graduate Program on Systems Engineering, UANL, N.L., Mexico. Thesis: Programación Genética de Prototipos para Clasificación. (Graduated June 25, 2012)
  18. Efraín Mendoza Castañeda. Computer Science Department, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico. (Expected graduation autumn-2014).

BS Thesis

  1. Juan Martín Loyola. Clasificación Anticipada de Textos. Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina, Graduated on March 2017. Director: Marcelo Luis Errecalde; Co-Director: Hugo Jair Escalante

Internships

  1. Mélina Verger (Université Paris Saclay) Predicting students’ performance in online courses using multiple data sources. (March 1 – August 31, 2021)
  2. Héctor Manuel Cárdenas (Instituto Tecnológico de Culiacán) Reconocimiento multimodal de emociones, sentimiento y personalidad en el proceso cognitivo (March 1 – 31, 2021)
  3. Víctor Manuel Bátiz Beltrán, (Instituto Tecnológico de Culiacán) Sistema de evaluación de la personalidad y de las emociones en el proceso cognitivo (March 1 – 31, 2021)
  4. Mauricio Soto Saucedo. Program: Residencias profesionales, (Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba) Prototype generation methods for visual vocabulary construction. (January 14 – June 30, 2013)

Scientific Summer program 2011

  1. Brenda Aide Pena Cantú. (FIME-UANL) Graphical User interface for the visualization of commercial territory designs. Program: PROVERICYT, UANL (June 20 — July 22, 2011).
  2. Katia Anaheim Guevara Espinosa. (Instituto Tecnologico de Cd. Mante) Comparison of machine learning algorithms for fault detection in manufacturing processes. Program: Verano Científico 2011 - Academia Mexicana de Ciencias. FIME - UANL (June 20 — August 22, 2011)
  3. Dennis Paul López Acuña (Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa) Static gesture recognition with a Kinect sensor. Program: Verano Científico 2012 - Academia Mexicana de Ciencias. INAOE, (June 25 — August 24, 2012)
  4. Daniel Arroyo Mendoza (Instututo Politécnico Nacional) Authorship attribution with associative memories. Program: Delfín 2012. INAOE, (June 25 — August 10, 2012)
  5. Y. Berenice Riveroll, Verónica Guzmán and Humberto Peralta (Instituto Tecnológico de Cerro Azul) Feature extraction for violent scence detection. Program: Delfín, 2013. INAOE (June 24 - August 26, 2013)
  6. Juan Jiménez González (Instituto Tecnológico de Cerro Azul) A corpus for the evaluation of early gesture-recognition methods. Program: Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, 2013. INAOE (June 24 - August 26, 2013)
  7. Cesar Alejandro Chavez Cerna (Universidad Michoacana de S. N. H.) Hybrid methods for prototype generation. Program: Delfín 2013. INAOE (June 24 - August 9, 2013)