CURRICULUM VITAE SATU ELISA SCHAEFFER

CURRENT POSITION
Associate professor (profesor titular A), Postgraduate Division of Systems Engineering at the School
of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (FIME) of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL)
since September 2006.
• Area coordinator of Information Technology and Software Engineering at the Center Innovation,
Research, and Development in Engineering and Technology (CIIDIT) of the UANL since May 2008.
• Academic coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Engineering with Orientation in Computation
and Mechatronics (DCM) at the FIME of the UANL since february 2010.
RECOGNITIONS
• Candidate to national researcher in the National Researchers System (SNI) of the National Science
and Technology Council (CONACyT) of Mexico, valid for the period 2008-2010.
• Desirable profile PROMEP of the Secretary of Public Education (SEP) of Mexixo, valid for the period
2009-2012.
• Leader of the Academic Group on Adaptive and Intelligent Information Systems, PROMEP, valid
for te period 2010-2012.
• Member of the Thematic Network on Information and Communication Technology of CONACyT
since February 2010.
EDUCATION
CURRICULUM VITAE
SATU ELISA SCHAEFFER
DOCTOR IN SCIENCE IN TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, 2006
From the Helsinki University of Technology, TKK, Espoo, Finland.
LICENCIATIATE IN SCIENCE IN TECHNOLOGY IN COMP. SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, 2003
From the Helsinki University of Technology, TKK, Espoo, Finland.
UNIVERSITY PEDAGOGY TRAINING, 2000
From the Helsinki University of Technology, TKK, Espoo, Finland.
600 hours during 2001-2002 in the Dipoli Training Center of the TKK.
Home address
Parque de los Olivos #407
Col. Parques de Anáhuac
San Nicolás de los Garza, N.L. 66456
Mexico
Tel. (81) 8332 5420
Work address
FIME / UANL
AP 126-F
Av. Universidad s/n
Cd. Universitaria
San Nicolás de los Garza, N.L. 66450
Mexico
Tel. (81) 1340 4000 ext. 1637 & 1509
e-mail elisa.schaeffer@uanl.edu.mx
www http://it.ciidit.uanl.mx/~elisa
MASTER IN SCIENCE IN TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, 2000
From the Helsinki University of Technology, TKK, Espoo, Finland.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1. Computational algorithms, for undergraduate level in Software Technology and Systems Administration
Bachelor programs at FIME, UANL, Spring term 2010.
2. Systems simulation, for graduate students in Systems Engineering, FIME, UANL, Springer term
2010.
3. Computational complexity, for postgraduate students in Systems Engineering, FIME, UANL, Spring
term 2010.
4. Object-oriented programming, for undergraduate level in Mechatronics at FIME, UANL, Fall term
2009 & for undergraduate level in Computer Science and Engineering, TKK, Spring term 2002.
5. Information technology - teacher training, for teachers of undergraduate level of Systems Administration
and Software Technology at the FIME, UANL, Summer 2009.
6. Basic programming, for undergratuate level at FIME, UANL, Spring term 2009, and, in collaboration
with Juha Sorva, for undergraduate level at TKK, Fall term 2001.
7. Mathematics for complex systems, for graduate and postgraduate students in Systems Engineering,
FIME, UANL, Spring term 2009.
8. Project in mechanical electrónics 2, for an undergraduate student at FIME, UANL, Spring term
2009.
9. Scientific programming, for graduate students in Systems Engineering, FIME, UANL, Spring terms
2008 and 2009.
10. Stochastic processes, for graduate students in Systems Engineering, FIME, UANL, Fall terms 2008
and 2009.
11. Programming - teacher training, for teachers of undergraduate level of Systems Administration at
FIME, UANL, Summer 2008.
12. Combinatorial optimization, for graduate students in Systems Engineering, FIME, UANL, Spring
term 2008.
13. Scientifix writing in English, for graduate and postgraduate students in Systems Engineering, FI-
ME, UANL, Spring term 2008.
14. Analysis and design of algorithms, for postgraduate students in Systems Engineering, FIME,
UANL, Fall term 2007.
15. Debate and conversation in English, for graduate and postgraduate students in Systems Engineering,
FIME, UANL, Fall term 2007.
16. Workshop on free software for scientific work, for graduate and postgraduate students and
summer trainees in Systems Engineering, FIME, UANL, Summer 2007.
17. Operations Research, for undergraduate students at FIME, UANL, Spring term 2007.
18. Research seminar in English, for graduate and postgraduate students in Systems Engineering, FI-
ME, UANL, Spring term 2007.
19. Fundamentals of complex networks, for undergraduate and graduate students in Information Networks,
TKK, Spring term 2006. In collaboration with Tapio Takala.
20. User interfaces, for undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Science and Engineering,
TKK, Summer 2000.
In addition to the courses given, service as a teaching assistant in numerous courses on various topics in the TKK
during the years 1997-2006.
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WORKING EXPERIENCE
Since August 2006: associate professor (category Titular A) at the UANL.
From August 2002 to August 2006: researcher and research assistant in projects funded by the
Academy of Finland, under the supervision of Pekka Orponen at the TKK.
2005: visiting researcher at the University of Chile, Santiago, with the Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial
Scholarship of Rotary International.
From January 1998 to August 2002: research and teaching assistant at the TKK at the Department
for Computer Science and Engineering and the Department for Electrical Engineering
and Telecommunications.
Summer 1998: software designer at Stonesoft Corporation in Espoo, Finland.
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL ARTICLES
I. Aída Lucina González Lara, Carlos Bernardo Garza Treviño, Carlos Alberto Castillo Salazar y Satu
Elisa Schaeffer. Redes sensoras inalámbricas y aplicaciones. Tecnología y desarrollo, 7(1), 2009.
ISSN 1819-4575.
II. Vanesa Avalos Gaytán, Mario Rivera Ramírez & Elisa Schaeffer. Agrupamiento local en grafos dirigidos.
Ciencia UANL, XII(3): 281–287, 2009. ISSN 1405-9177.
III. Claudia Guadalupe Gómez Santillán, Laura Cruz Reyes, Eustorgio Meza, Tania Turrubiates López,
Marco A. Aguirre Lam & Satu Elisa Schaeffer. Improving Distributed Resource Search through a
Statistical Methodology of Topological Feature Selection. Journal of Computers, Special Issue on
Trends in Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 4(8): 727–733, August 2009.
IV. Fernando López Irarragorri, Igor S. Litvinchev, Miguel Mata Pérez & Satu Elisa Schaeffer. R&D
Portfolio Selection MILP Models for Large Instances in Public and Social Sectors. Computación y
Sistemas 12(2): 163–172, 2008.
V. Satu Elisa Schaeffer. Graph Clustering. Computer Science Review, 1(1): 27–64, 2007.
BOOK CHAPTERS
VI. Javier Bustos Jiménez, Nicolás Bersano, Satu Elisa Schaeffer, José Miguel Piquer, Alexandru Iosup
& Augusto Ciuffoletti. Estimating the size of peer-to-peer networks using Lamberts's W
function. In S. Golatch, P. Fragopoulou y T. Priol, editores, Grid Computing - Achievements and
Prospects, pp. 61–72, New York, NY, USA, 2008. Springer Verlag.
VII. Laura Cruz Reyes, Claudia Guadalupe Gómez Santillán, Marco Antonio Aguirre Lam, Satu Elisa
Schaeffer, Tania Turrubiates López, Rogelio Ortega Izaguirre & Héctor J. Fraire Huacuja. NAS Algorithm
for Semantic Query Routing Systems in Complex Networks. In Advances in Soft
Computing, Volume 50/2009, pp. 284–292, Springer Verlag.
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REFEREED CONFERENCE ARTICLES
VIII. Perla Elizabeth Cantú Cerda & Satu Elisa Schaeffer. Análisis y optimización estructural de redes
complejas. In Memorias del Sexto Congreso Internacional Sobre Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico
(CIINDET 2008), Morelos, México, October 2008, IEEE.
IX. Laura Cruz Reyes, Claudia Guadalupe Gómez Santillán, Marco Antonio Aguirre Lam, Satu Elisa
Schaeffer, Tania Turrubiates López & Rogelio Ortega Izaguirre. Comparative Study of Search
Processes in Algorithms for Semantic Query Routing Systems in Complex Networks. In Proceedings
of the Fifteenth International Conference on Advanced Computer Systems, Artificial Intelligence,
Software Technologies, Biometrics, and Information Technology Security; International
Conference on Advanced Computer Systems (ACS-AISBIS 2008).
X. Saúl Isaí Caballero Hernández, Roger Z. Ríos Mercado, Fabián López & Satu Elisa Schaeffer. Empirical
Evaluation of a Metaheuristic for Commercial Territory Design with Joint Assignment
Constraints. In J.E. Fernández, S. Noriega, A. Mital, S.E. Butt y T.K. Fredericks, editors, Proceedings
of the 12th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering Theory, Applications,
and Practice (IJIE'07), páginas 422–427. Cancún, Mexico, November 2007. ISBN: 978-0-9654506-
3-8.
XI. André Schumacher, Harri Haanpää, Satu Elisa Schaeffer & Pekka Orponen. Load Balancing by
Distributed Optimisation in Ad Hoc Networks. In J. Cao et al., editors, Proceedings of the Second
International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2006), Lecture Notes
in Computer Science, volume 4325, pp. 874–885, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2006. Springer Verlag.
XII. Satu Elisa Schaeffer, Stefano Marinoni, Mikko Särelä & Pekka Nikander. Dynamic Local Clustering
for Hierarchical Ad Hoc Networks. In Proceedings of the Third Annual IEEE Communications
Society on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (Workshop on Wireless Ad
Hoc and Sensor Networks, IWWAN 2006), volume 2, pp. 667–672, Reston, VA, EE.UU., 2006. IEEE
Communications Society.
XIII. Jirí Šíma & Satu Elisa Schaeffer. On the NP-Completeness of Some Graph Cluster Measures.
En J. Wiederman et al., editors, Proceedings of the Thirty-second International Conference on Current
Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM-06), Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, volumen 3831, páginas 350–357. Berlin-Heidelberg, 2006. Springer Verlag.
XIV. Satu Elisa Schaeffer. Stochastic local clustering for massive graphs. In T.B. Ho, D. Cheung y H.
Liu, editors, Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining (PAKDD-05), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, volume 3518, pp. 354–360, Berlin/Heidelberg,
2005. Springer-Verlag.
XV. Pekka Orponen & Satu Elisa Schaeffer. Local clustering of large graphs by approximate Fiedler
vectors. In S. Nikoletseas, editor, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Efficient
and Experimental Algorithms (WEA'05), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 3503, pp.
524–533, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2005. Springer-Verlag.
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EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
XVI. Diana Lucía Huerta Muñoz, Roger Z. Ríos Mercado, Satu Elisa Schaeffer & Ruben Ruiz. Diseño de
Planes Eficientes para la Segmentación de Clientes con Múltiples Atributos. In J. C. Leyva
López (editor), Memorias del XIV Latin-American Summer School on Operations Research (ELA-
VIO'09). Article 5-3, pp. 1-5, 2009. ISBN: 978-607-7834-02-01.
XVII. Fernando López Irarragorri, Igor S. Litvinchev & Satu Elisa Schaeffer. A MILP Model for the General
Problem of R&D Project Selection in Large Public and Social Organizations. In Proceedings
of the XIV Latin Ibero-American Congress on Operations Research (CLAIO 2008).
XVIII. Satu Elisa Virtanen & Pekka Nikander. Local clustering for hierarchical ad hoc networks. In
Proceedings of WiOpt'04: Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks,
pp. 404–405. IEEE, 2004.
XIX. Satu Elisa Virtanen. Clustering the Chilean web. In R. Baeza-Yates, D. Schwabe, J. Piquer, N.
Ziviani y L. Olsina, editores, Proceedings of the First Latin American Web Congress, pp. 229–231,
Los Alamitos, CA, EE.UU., November 2003. IEEE Computer Society.
THESES
XX. Satu Elisa Schaeffer. Algorithms for nonuniform networks. Doctoral dissertation, Helsinki University
of Technology (TKK), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, April 2006.
XXI. Satu Elisa Virtanen. Properties of nonuniform random graph models. Licenciate’s Thesis (predoctoral),
Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
March 2003.
XXII. Satu Elisa Virtanen. Group update and relaxed balancing in search trees. Master’s Thesis, Helsinki
University of Technology (TKK), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, December
2000.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
XXIII. Satu Elisa Schaeffer. Computación aleatorizada - probabilidad y algoritmos. RISCE - Revista Internacional
de Sistemas Computacionales y Electrónicos. ESCOM IPN, No. 0, pp. 2-5, January 2009.
XXIV. Pekka Orponen, Satu Elisa Schaeffer & Vanesa Avalos Gaytán. Locally computable approximations
for spectral clustering and absoprtion times of random walks. Technical Report arXiv:0810.4061
[cs.DM], arXiv.org, October 2008.
XXV. Satu Elisa Schaeffer. El alma del buscador de páginas web. Conocimiento, number 72, pp. 29–30,
2008.
XXVI. Satu Elisa Schaeffer, Jonathan C. Clemens & Patrick Hamilton. Decision making in distributed
sensor networks. In Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA., 2004. Santa Fe Institute.
XXVII.Pekka Orponen & Satu Elisa Schaeffer. Efficient algorithms for sampling and clustering of large nonuniform
networks. Technical Report cond-mat/0406048, arXiv.org, June 2004.
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SELECTED TALKS
The title of the talk is listed in the language in which the talk was given.
I. Sincronización y coordinación en sistemas multiagentes. Seminar on Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Regiomontana
(UR), Monterrey, Mexico, October 27, 2009.
II. Coordinación en Sistemas Multiagentes. Plenary talk at the National and International Conference in Informatics and
Computational Systems (CONAIS 2009), Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, September 24, 2009.
III. Sincronización y Coordinación Robótica para Tareas Colaborativas. Research seminar of CINVESTAV Tamaulipas,
Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, June 11, 2009.
IV. Redes sensoras - Tecnología, desafios y aplicaciones. Research seminar of CINVESTAV Monterrey, PIIT Monterrey,
Nuevo León, Mexico, May 27, 2009.
V. Optimización Estructural de Redes. Plenary talk at the 9th Conference in Industrial Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico
de Culiacán, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, March 12, 2009.
VI. Retos de cómputo moderno - distribuido, paralelo e integrado. Plenary talk at the 4th International Conference on
Technologial Tendencies in Computing (TTC 2008), CIDETEC, IPN, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, October 15, 2008.
VII. Computación aleatorizada - algoritmos y probabilidad. Plenary talk at the 2nd International Conference on Computational
and Electronic Systems (CISCE 2008), IPN, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, September 3, 2008.
VIII. Locally computable approximations of absorption times for graph clustering. 15th Conference of the International
Linear Algebra Society (ILAS 2008) in Cancun, Mexico, June 20, 2008.
IX. Optimización en redes sensoras: conceptos y fundamentos, Postgraduate seminar of the School of Physical and
Mathematical Sciences (FCFM) of the UANL, April 24, 2008.
X. Free software for scientists, Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Álamo Temapache (ITSAT), Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico,
October 23, 2007.
XI. Agrupamiento local de grafos por computación local, at the Conference of the Mexican Mathematical Society (SMM
07), Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, October 18, 2007, and again at the Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas,
Mexico, Nvember 15, 2007.
XII. Un vistazo en los fundamentos de optimización en redes sensoras, at the School of Science of the Universidad
Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, in Oaxaca, Mexico, June 1, 2007.
XIII. Redes de Sensores, at the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, April 4, 2007.
XIV. Conceptos computacionales esenciales para arte multimedia, at the School of Visual Arts of the UANL, March 12,
2007.
XV. Algoritmos para redes complejas, given as a demonstration of teaching capability at the Graduate Program in Systems
Engineering of the UANL, May 15, 2006.
XVI. Distributed optimization in networks, Rutgers-Helsinki Postgraduate Workshop, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, May 9,
2006.
XVII. NP-completeness of some graph cluster measures, 32nd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and
Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM'06), Czech Republic, January 23, 2006.
XVIII. Stochastic Local Clustering for Massive Graphs, 9th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(PAKDD-05), Hanoi, Vietnam, May 19, 2005.
XIX. Algoritmos y redes complejas, Department of Computer Science (DCC), University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, March 31,
2005.
XX. Clustering the Chilean Web, 1st Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB 2003), Santiago, Chile, November 11, 2003.
XXI. Online Methods for Clustering the Web Graph, 2nd Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph (WAW
2003), 12th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2003), Budapest, Hungary, May 20, 2003.
XXII. Nonuniform Network Models. Formal Methods Forum, TCS, TKK, March 10, 2003, and again at the Helsinki Institute for
Information Technology (HIIT), May 13, 2003.
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WORKSHOPS
Programming of Lego Mindstorms robots on the lejOS Platform. Sixth International Congress on
Computer Engineering, Centro Universitario de Ixtlahuaca, Mexico, October 2009.
Usability and Interaction Principles in Mobile Devices. First Simposium on Research and Technological
Innovation, CIIDIT, UANL, May 2009.
Embedded systems and industrial control: learning through robot programming. Ninth Congress of
Industrial Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Culiacán, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, March 2009.
SUPERVISED STUDENTS
LEVEL CURRENT STUDENTS ALUMNI
Supervisor Co-supervisor
Postgraduate 1 1
Committee
member
Supervisor Co-supervisor
Committee
member
Graduate 2 0 2 3 2 8
Undergraduate 1 1
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A complete listing is available on the web page.