Manuel Freire

Contact

Address Escuela Politécnica Superior - UAM
Ctra. de Colmenar Viejo, km 15
CP ES-28049 Madrid, España
Laboratorio B-207
Telephone +34 91 497 22 67
Fax +34 91 497 22 35
E-mail manuel.freire@uam.es

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As of May 2010, I have returned from a Post-doctoral stay at the HCIL lab, at the University of Maryland at College Park, USA, where I have done research on network analysis and visualization. I am again a non-tenured Professor at the EPS-UAM.

Research

See the research page for more on my interests, publications and past and present research activities. I am currently working on network analysis and visualization. My PhD thesis topic was clustered graph visualization, which I applied to Adaptive Hypermedia (AH) courses, device network visualization, concept maps and similarity analysis. The clustered graph visualization framework I developed, Clover, is available online, as is the Wotan AH course system, for which a Clover-based editor was developed as part of my PhD thesis. I am also very proud of my work in the AC anti-plagiarism system.

I am a member of the OPAH group, which is part of the larger GHIA group. I am also a participant in the HADA project, directed to help disabled and elderly enjoy the benefits of technology. My professional association memberships include both IEEE and ACM.

Teaching at UAM

The Art of Contest Programming is open to all UAM students. Its goal is to teach programming-contest skills, useful in such contests such as ACM-ICPC and, at a regional level, CUPCAM (where our teams have a great track record). These contests are both instructive and fun. Join the team!