Jesús Favela

(Alice said)
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to go," said the Cat"
"I don't know where...,"said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter
which way you go." said the Cat

From Lewis Caroll's
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

What I do

I'm an Associate Professor at CICESE Research Center in Ensenada, Baja California, México, where I head the Collaborative Information Retrieval and Filtering Group. My main area of research is the retrieval of unsolicited information from organizational memory.

I did my PhD at working at the Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory in the KAPS Project. I hold an M.Sc. from MIT where I did thesis work in the areas of Object-Oriented Technologies and Computational Mechanics. I hold a degree in Civil Engineer from UNAM in México.

Research Interests

You can find more details of our research work in the following areas:

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Digital Image Analysis and Interpretation
Software Engineering

My current research is organized in several funded Research Projects

Recent Publications

Here's a list of some of my recent publications with Abstracts, and when allowed, PS downloadable versions.

Courses

Other sites of interest... to me

I represent CICESE's CSCW Research Group in CYTED-RITOS
I'm a founding member of the Mexican Computer Science Society (SMCC)
I teach undergraduate courses at Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC)
I collaborate with LANIA in professional development courses
I'm in the programme committee of Iberamia'96, CRIWG'96, PROMS-MmNet'97, RNIS, and XI SBES
I'm Programme Committee Chair for CRIWG'97 to be held in Madrid, Spain in October 1-3