Alejandro Vaisman

I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I received a BA degree in Civil Engineering from  the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and BA in Computer Science from the same university. I worked as a civil engineer in environmental projects from 1984 to 1994.  In 2001 I got my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires. My PhD thesis studied updates and time management in OLAP.  I have been teaching at the Computer Science Department at UBA, from 1987. I have been an invited professor at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 1997. In 1998 I joined the Systems Division  at the Universidad de Belgrano , Buenos Aires  (with a DBA position), where in 2001 I was appointed vice-dean of the School of Engineering and Information Technology.  In 2003 I joined the University of Toronto as a posdoctoral fellow, and lecturing the Data Management Systems course. After that, I returned to the University of Buenos Aires, lecturing the  courses on Fundamentals of Data Warehousing and Database Systems, and as Vice-Head of the Department of Computer Science. During 2006 I was visiting reearcher at the Computer Science Department of the University of Chile.  During 2008-2009 I was visiting researcher at the University  of Hasselt, working for the GeoPKDD project. I Chaired  the Masters Program in Data Mining at the University of Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales from  March 2005 to March 2010. I am currently Asociate Professor at the Univeridad de la República, Uruguay, at the Institute of Computing. I am also in charge of the postgraduate professional program. My research interests are: Semantic Web, OLAP and  Datawarehousing, Data Mining,  GIS  and Moving Objects databases,  XML databases.

Events and Seminars

• South American Database School and II Workshop on Foundations on Databases and the Web (in honor to Alberto O. Mendelzon), Punta del Este, Uruguay, Oct. 23rd to 26th, 2007. Web site.
• III Jornadas Argentinas de Data Mining, Oct 30th, 2008, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Web site
• South American Database School and III  Workshop on Foundations on Databases and the Web (in honor to Alberto O. Mendelzon), Arequipa, Peru,  May 12th to 15th,  2009. Web site
• Dagsthul Seminar 08471. Geographic Privacy-Aware Knowledge Discovery and Delivery. November, 2008.
• Trajectory Data Warehousing and Mining: a State-of-the-Art and Research Directions. Invited tutorial. Mobile Data Management (MDM' 2010), Kansas City. Misouri. USA. May, 2010.
• Fourth  Workshop on Foundations on Databases and the Web (in honor to Alberto O. Mendelzon), Buenos Aires, Argentinq, May 17th to 20th, 2010. Web site.

E-mail: avaisman@fing.edu.uy; alejandro.vaisman@gmail.com