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by Huascar A. Sanchez

This site is entirely about me. It outlines my previous, current, and probably my future academic and professional work. Some of the subjects covered in this site include: a short bio, research interests, my cv/resume, etc.

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Favorite quote:
"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love." David McCullough - 1933.

Who I am ...

My name is Huascar (pronounced wäs-kär) Sanchez. I am a PhD student in the Computer Science department at University of California Santa Cruz. Prior to coming to grad school at UC Santa Cruz, I worked as a software engineer at Pearson VUE in Burnsville MN, on the Infrastructure team. While in Pearson VUE, I was also part of a startup called Vergencemedia, Inc.

Before joining Pearson VUE on January 2006, I worked as software engineer at a startup called vrlSoft, Inc., which I co-founded, as a research and teaching assistant at San Jose State University, where I got a MS in Soft. Eng., and as a freelance developer.

Doing research is by far my favorite activity and I hope to continue doing it for as long as I can. I really enjoy working on challenging & interesting problems, collaborating with others, as well as seeing the results of my work being used by others. My work has been published in different national & international software engineering conferences, such as:

Pattern Language of Programs (PLOP).
European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP).
IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE-IRI).
IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications.
Latin American Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (SugarLoaf PLOP).

In my spare time...

I occasionally blog here, work on open source projects (guice-plugin, quickmix, JUnit 4.5 extensions, and FilterQ), and read about recent topics in software engineering, oo programming, and programming languages in general.

Besides Computing ...

I like the culinary arts, classic painting, and "futbol" (a.k.a. soccer).

Research interests

My research interests lie in the intersection between Software Engineering, Programming Languages, and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). My current focus is on making programming experience more humane.

Past Research work

The following list of publications may give you an idea of what type of research I did when I was in San Jose State University. These publications have been organized according to their type of publication.

M.E. Fayad (Chair), Chia-Chu Chiang, Huascar A. Sanchez, Pablo Chacin, Srini Ramaswamy, Arturo Sanchez-Ruiz, Selmin Nurcan, A. Kannammal SampathKumar, The First International Workshop on Patterns Languages: Addressing Challenges, Montreal, Canada, October 21, 2007 (in conjunction with OOPSLA 2007).
Mohamed E. Fayad, Huascar A. Sanchez, and Haitham S. Hamza, Focus Group on Building Systems of Patterns,,the 11th Pattern Language of Programs (PLOP) September 8-12, 2004, Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois, USA.

Huascar A. Sanchez, Building System using Patterns - Creating Knowledge Maps, MSc. in Software Engineering Thesis, School of Engineering, Computer Engineering Department, San Jose State University, May 2006.

J. Gresh, J. McKim, H. Sanchez, The Dynamic Mapping Design Pattern, The 12th Pattern Language of Programs (PLOP) September 7-10, 2005, Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois, USA.
H.A. Sanchez, M.E. Fayad, The Branding Analysis Pattern, the 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-06), March 8-11, 2006, Dubai/Sharjah, UAE.
M. E. Fayad, Haitham S. Hamza, and Huascar A. Sanchez, Towards Scalable and Adaptable Software Architectures, the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2005) August 15-17, 2005 Hilton, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Huascar A. Sanchez, Laying the foundations for Branding as a Stable Analysis Pattern, the 19th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) - Workshop on "Building A System Using Patterns: Examine the Illustrious Claim," July 25-29, 2005, Glasgow, Scotland.
Mohamed Fayad, Huascar Sanchez, and Haitham Hamza, A Pattern Language for CRC Cards, the 11th Pattern Language of Programs (PLOP) September 8-12, 2004, Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois, USA.
Mohamed E. Fayad, Huascar Sanchez, and Gaston R. Cangiano, Stable Automation Pattern, the 4th Latin American Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (Sugarloaf Plop) August 10-13, 2004, Porto Das Dunas, Ceara, Brazil.
M.E. Fayad, H.S. Hamza, and H.A. Sanchez, A Pattern for an Effective Class Responsibility Collaborator (CRC) Cards, the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2003), Las Vegas, NV, October 2003.
M.E Fayad, H.A. Sanchez, and Binbin Lai. The Applications of Sampling Pattern. Sixth International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language (UML 2003), Workshop on Stable Analysis Patterns: a true problem understanding with UML, workshop #8, San Francisco, CA, October 20-24, 2003.
M.E Fayad, H.A. Sanchez, and G.R. Cangiano. The Automation Analysis Pattern. Sixth International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language (UML 2003), Workshop on Stable Analysis Patterns: a true problem understanding with UML, workshop #8, San Francisco, CA, October 20-24, 2003.
H.A. Sanchez, B. Lai, and M.E. Fayad, The Sampling Analysis Pattern, the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2003) October 27-29, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Curriculum Vitae and/or Resume

Here is my Curriculum Vitae and a short and a long version of my resume. All of them in pdf format.

Fall 2009's course load

This is my course load for the Fall 09 quarter at UCSC.

Cmps 200 Research and Teaching in Computer Science and Engineering
Cmps 101 Algorithms and Abstract Data Types.
Cmps 290G Topics in Software Engineering.

Winter 2010's course load

This is my course load for the Winter 2010 quarter at UCSC.

Cmpe 231 Human Computer Interaction
Cmps 203 Programming Languages.

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