Teaching
I specialize in the teaching of programming for the Computer Sciences program in the Faculty of Sciences, and I usually teach Computer Sciences Introduction and Data Structures. Lately, I have been sporadically teaching Modeling and Programming.
I have also taught Analysys of Algorithms and Computer Architecture and Organization.
This semester (2019-1) I will teach:
- Computer Sciences Introduction,
- Modeling and Programming, and
- Computer Sciences Seminar B: This seminar covers Combinatorial Optimization Heuristics.
I am also involved with the Institutional Tutoring Program in the Faculty of Sciences, and I collaborate with the Propedeutic Courses for first year students of the Computer Science program.
Publications
- Canek Peláez, Elecciones La ciencia al servicio de la democracia, ¿Cómo ves?, year 20, number 235, June 2018, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
- Canek Peláez, David Romero, A model and an algorithm to construct Mexican district maps, Book of Abstracts of XLVII Annual Meeting Italian Operations Research Society, September 2017, Page 141.
- Canek Peláez, David Romero, Advances on a Combinatorial Optimization Approach for Political Districting in Mexico, Actas de la XVII Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial, Aquilafuente 224, September 2016, Pages 399-408.
- Canek Peláez, Unit testing as a teaching tool in higher education, SHS Web of Conferences, Volume 26, January 2016, ERPA International Congresses on Education 2015 (ERPA 2015).
- José Miguel Díaz-Báñez, Marco A. Heredia, Canek Peláez, J. Antoni Sellarès, Jorge Urrutia, Inmaculada Ventura, Convex blocking and partial orders on the plane, Computational Geometry, Volume 51, January 2016, Pages 55–66.
- Canek Peláez, Adriana Ramírez-Vigueras, Carlos Seara, Jorge Urrutia, Weak separators, vector dominance, and the dual space, In XIV Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry, 2011.
- Canek Peláez, Adriana Ramírez-Vigueras, Jorge Urrutia, Triangulations with many points of even degree, Proceedings of the 22nd Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry–CCCG, 2010, Pages 103–106.
- Elisa Viso, Canek Peláez, Introducción a las Ciencias de la Computación con Java, 2012, 573 pages, ISBN: 978-607-02-3345-6.
- Canek Peláez, Elisa Viso, Introducción a las Ciencias de la Computación: Manual de prácticas, 2008, 214 pages, ISBN: 978-970-32-5416-3.
Research
I primarily work and do research in the following areas:
- Software Engineering,
- Algorithms,
- Teaching Programming,
- Combinatorial Optimization,
- Combinatorics, and
- Computational Geometry.
However, if it is possible to implement a computer program that solves or helps to solve a problem, I probably will be interested. Specially if the problem is NP-Complete or NP-Hard, and it has real world applications.
If you have such a problem, and need a highly qualified programmer that understands discrete mathematics, do not hesitate to contact me.
I have profiles in the following academic research social networks:
- Google Scholar, and
- ResearchGate.
Conferences
The following are some of the conferences where I have presented works, or I have been coauthor of the work presented:
- VI Congreso de la Sociedad Mexicana de Investigación de Operaciones, October 2017, Guadalajara, Jalisco.
- International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science (ODS2017), September 2017, Sorrento, Italy.
- XVII Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial, September 2016, Salamanca, Spain.
- XXVII Congreso Nacional de Estudios Electorales, November 2016, Guanajuato, Mexico.
- XI Congreso Español de Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB 2016), September 2016, Salamanca, Spain.
- XXXI Coloquio Víctor Neumann-Lara de Teoría de las Gráficas, Combinatoria y sus Aplicaciones, February-March 2016, Querétaro, Mexico.
- Combinatoria y Matemáticas Aplicadas: una celebración de los primeros 70 años de Gilberto Calvillo y David Romero, November 2015, Guanajuato, Mexico.
- ERPA International Congresses on Education 2015, June 2015, Athens, Greece.
- Mexican Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Computational Geometry, November 2013, Oaxaca, Mexico.
- XXVII Coloquio Víctor Neumann-Lara de Teoría de las Gráficas, Combinatoria y sus Aplicaciones, March 2012, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
- XXVI Coloquio Víctor Neumann-Lara de Teoría de las Gráficas, Combinatoria y sus Aplicaciones, March 2011, Hidalgo, Mexico.
- XIV Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry, June 2011, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
- Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry 2011, August 2011, Toronto, Canada.
- Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry 2010, August 2010, Winnipeg, Canada.
- XXV Coloquio Víctor Neumann-Lara de Teoría de las Gráficas, Combinatoria y sus Aplicaciones, March 2010, Querétaro, Mexico.
- XXII Coloquio Víctor Neumann-Lara de Teoría de las Gráficas, Combinatoria y sus Aplicaciones, March 2007, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Programming
Before starting my tenure-track, and although I have never really stopped teaching since 1998, most of my jobs were as professional programmer.
- My GitHub profile. Some small personal Free Software projects I maintain at GitHub.
- My personal GitLab instance. Same as above, but under my control.
Travels
Most of the international traveling I have done in my life has been related to Academia. I usually take lots of photographs, and sometimes I upload them to my online album.
Here are links to albums from some of those trips:
- 2011: Research visit to California State University, Northridge.
- 2011: Research visit to the Fields Institute; part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
- 2011: Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry 2011.
- 2011: Research visit to TU Delft; part 1, 2, and 3.
- 2011: Research visit to Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; part 1 and 2.
- 2011: Research visit to Universidad de Sevilla; part 1 and 2.
- 2011: XIV Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry.
- 2011: Bled'11 - 7th Slovenian International Conference on Graph Theory; part 1, 2, and 3.
- 2010: Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry 2010.
- 2010: Research visit to Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; part 1, 2, and 3.
- 2009: Yucatán Workshop.
- 2009: Research visit to California State University, Northridge.
- 2009: DocCourse in Bellaterra; part 1, 2, and 3.
- 2007: Research visit to California State University, Northridge.
- 2007: XXII Coloquio Víctor Neumann-Lara de Teoría de las Gráficas, Combinatoria y sus Aplicaciones.
- 2006: Guanajuato Workshop.
Personal
- Blog. It has almost nothing to do with my academic life. It is written in Spanish.
- Online album. It has some pretty pictures.
- My Google+ profile. It has even less to do with my academic life.
