Allan M. Espinosa

Assistant Instructor (On-leave)
Electronics, Computer and Communications Engineering Department
Ateneo de Manila University

I am currently on leave for my PhD studies in Computer Science at the University of Chicago. This page will be updated less frequently. Information on my previous work in telecommunications and distributed systems can still be found here. For more of my recent work, please visit my graduate student page at http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~aespinosa

Curriculum vitae

cv-web.pdf

Email

aespinosa[at]cs[dot]uchicago[dot]edu

Web

Blog: http://allan.88-mph.net/blog

Wiki page: http://ohm.ecce.admu.edu.ph/wiki/bin/view/Main/AllanEspinosa

Faculty page: http://ohm.ecce.admu.edu.ph/~aespinosa/

Office address

Rm 311 3/F Faura Hall
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights, Quezon City
Philippines 1108

Research

I am currently involved with various research groups in Ateneo's School of Science and Engineering. The projects are inter-disciplinary in nature. My interests lie in the realm of Distributed systems and grid computing, High performance computing and parallel programming, Logistics solutions using wireless technologies, Modelling of rain under Philippine tropical conditions, Multimedia content delivery technologies , Personal medical databases, Signal and image processing

Publications and conference presentations

1. A. Espinosa, N. Libatique, G. Tangonan, C. Pineda, R. Lamac, et. al., "Multipath design configuration for microwave networks using real-time rain data," presented in the National ECCE Conference, Nov 2007, Manila. [slides]
2. N. Libatique, A. Espinosa, G. Tangonan, M. Guico, C. Ramos, "Patient Driven Mobile Phone-Enabled Medical Health Services," presented in the 5th ICT-Asia Seminar, Nov 2007, Taipei.
3. R. Saldana, A. Espinosa, "Medical Image Analysis and Information Retrieval with Grid Computing Applications," presented in the 5th ICT-Asia Seminar, Nov 2007, Taipei. [slides]
4. A. Espinosa, N. Libatique, G. Tangonan, C, Pineda, "Rapid deployable disaster management systems," presented in the 5th ICT-Asia Seminar, Nov 2007, Taipei. [slides]
5. R. Saldana, A. Espinosa, P. Tioseco, K. Layug, "A Web-Based Query and Retrieval System of Federated DICOM Image Archives," presented in theInternational Medical Informatics Symposium in Taiwan, Nov 2007, Taipei.[slides]
6. A. Espinosa, Implementation of a multi-hop routing scheme from attenuation links based on temporal rain models, BS Thesis, Mar 2007, Ateneo de Manila University.
7. R. Saldana, A. Espinosa. "Benchmarking Beowulf clusters using high performance linpack (HPL) and cellular automata" in Symposium on the Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science, Oct 2006, Cavite. Cavite. [manuscript]

Courses, second semester 2007-2008

• TCOM 151.2, Optical Communications and Transmission Media Laboratory
• CE 22, Introduction to Data Structures
• CE 21, Introduction to Computing
• ENGPS 171, Electromagnetic Theory and Applications I
• CE 155, Operating Systems
• ELC 111.2, Switching Theory and Digital Design Laboratory
• CIE 122, Database Systems

Invited talks and lectures

1. Best Pratices in Computer Programming. A lecture describing individual and team training of students for national and international programming contest. Presented in the First Philippine Inter-Collegiate Programming Contest. Organized by the Computing Society of the Philippines. Oct 2007. [slides]
2. Overview of C programming. A seminar for high school students in preparation for the Asia Pacific International Olympiad. May 2007.
3. Computer programming workshop for high schools. Ateneo Junior Summer Seminar. May 2007.
4. Introduction to Grid computing. Technical series hosted by the Ateneo Electronics Engineering Society. Feb 2007.
5. LEGO robot design. Philippine Robot Olympiad Orientation. hosted by Ateneo de Manila University. Aug 2004. [slides]