Cris Pedregal Martin

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Computer Science		Univ. of Massachusetts, 2002	Amherst, Mass.
M.S. Computer Science		Univ. of Massachusetts, 1994	Amherst, Mass.
Licenciado Informatica		ESLAI (Univ. of Lujan), 1988	Argentina    


RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2002		University of New Mexico		Albuquerque, N.M.
* Investigated transactional recovery in novel applications and platforms;
 system tradeoffs in novel architectures; IT infrastructure decay.

1994-2001	University of Massachusetts		Amherst, Mass.
* Investigated foundations of transactional recovery, from databases to
 mobile to e-commerce systems
* Designed and supervised development and deployment of database-backed 
 web-based instructional system.
* Investigated how to provide programming language support for real-time
 and for advanced transactions functionality.

Summer 1994	Xerox PARC				Palo Alto, Calif.
* Worked in design and implementation of multimedia delivery/markup system.

Summer 1993	GTE Labs (Verizon)			Waltham, Mass.
* Investigated integration of advanced transactions into a distributed
 object manager.


PUBLICATIONS  
* Cris Pedregal Martin and Krithi Ramamritham: Support for Recovery in Mobile
Systems, IEEE Transactions. on Computers, 51(10), October 2002.
* Cris Pedregal Martin and Krithi Ramamritham: Guaranteeing Recoverability in 
 Electronic Commerce, in  Proc. Third International Workshop on Advanced Issues
 of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems, San Jose, Calif., June 2001. 
* Agustin Schapira, Kim De Vries, and Cris Pedregal Martin: MANIC: An Open-
 Source System to Create and Deliver Courses over the Internet, in  Proc. 2001
 Symposium On Applications and the Internet, San Diego, Calif., January 2001. 
* Cris Pedregal Martin and Krithi Ramamritham: Recovery Guarantees in Mobile 
 Systems, in  Proc. International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless 
 and Mobile Access, Seattle, Wash., August 1999. 
* Cris Pedregal Martin and Krithi Ramamritham: Toward Formalizing Recovery of 
 (Advanced) Transactions, in  Advanced Transaction Models and Architectures, 
 S. Jajodia and L. Kerschberg, editors, Kluwer, Boston, 1997.
* Cris Pedregal Martin and Krithi Ramamritham: Delegation: Efficiently 
 Rewriting History, In Proc. of the 13th Int'l Conference on Data Engineering,
 Birmingham, UK, April 1997.
(All papers are available at  http://www.cs.umass.edu/~cris/papers.html )


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2002		University of New Mexico		Albuquerque, N.M.
* Taught core Computer Science courses, supervised & mentored undergraduate
and graduate students, paticipated in undergraduate curriculum design.

1991-1995       University of Massachusetts             Amherst, Mass.
* Redesigned, managed, and lectured two introductory CS courses.
* Assisted students and supervised TAs for intro and advanced CS classes.
* Tutored (in Spanish/English) disadvantaged students in Math and CS.  

1989    University of  Buenos Aires                     Argentina 
* Developed and taught seminar on object-oriented concurrent languages.

1988    ESLAI                                           Argentina
* Teaching assistant for advanced programming languages course.


OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

2000-2001       IGEN Corporation                        Cambridge, Mass.
* Performed QA on data model for web-based enterprise diet & fitness service. 
* Audited and improved security of database and web server infrastructure.

1998-2001       University of Massachusetts             Amherst, Mass.
* Assessed needs and acquired computing equipment for research group.

1991    University of Massachusetts                     Amherst, Mass.
* Research Assistant for Pilgrim, a joint project UMass - DEC (Compaq). 

1989    Foreign Affairs Ministry                        Argentina
* Collaborated in system administration and deployment of a wide-area,
 mission- critical networked office system with dozens of sites worldwide.


PEER REVIEWING 
OOPSLA  ACM Conf. on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Apps.
SIGMOD  ACM International Conference on Management of Data.
ICDE  International Conference on Data Engineering.
Information Processing Letters  (Elsevier).


REFERENCES
 Prof.  Krithi Ramamritham - email: krithi@cs.umass.edu
 Prof.  David Stemple - email: stemple@cs.umass.edu
 Prof.  Eliot Moss - email: moss@cs.umass.edu
 Prof.  Rick Adrion - email: adrion@cs.umass.edu


CONTACT INFO
Cris Pedregal Martin - cris@cs.unm.edu - 505-294-1415
Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131