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Victor Muntés i Mulero
Assistant Director
Associate Professor
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"Victor Muntés was professor at UPC and member of DAMA-UPC until June 2011. Please, to see his updated CV visit his personal web page."
 
Telephone
Fax Number
+34 93 401 71 90 +34 93 401 70 55
 
Address
Campus Nord UPC, C/Jordi Girona 1-3, Despatx C6-E202, 08034, Barcelona
 

Education

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  • Master in Computer Science (June 2001)
  • PhD (May 2007)

                Title: Genetic Optimization for large join queries.
                Advisor/s: Larriba Pey, Josep and Perez Casany, Marta.
                Department: Computer Architecture

 

Professional Experience

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  • Associate Professor (Tenured) (September 2006 – now)
  • Assistant Professor (September 2003 – August 2006)



Grants

  • Grant from MEC (Ministry of Education and Science of Spain) Course 2000 – 2001
  • Grant FPU (University Professor Training) from MEC Years 2002 – 2003
  • IBM Fellowship Grant Years 2001 – 2004 CAS in IBM Toronto Labs
  • IBM CAS Fellow Years 2007 – Now
  • Grant "José Castillejo" from MICINN (Ministry of Science and Innovation) (1st October 2009-31st March 2010)



Stays in Non-Universitary Centers/Labs

IBM Toronto Labs
  • Stay at the IBM Toronto Labs 2001 – 2004 (a total amount of time of 11 months)
   - Genetic Optimization for Very Large Databases
   - Improving DBMS Engine operations using bit filters
                - IBM technical advisor: Calisto Zuzarte
Barcelona Yahoo! Research
  • Stay at the Barcelona Yahoo! Research Labs Summer 2007

                - Word recommendation for keyword search engines, based on the manipulation of very large graphs
                - Yahoo! hosting researcher: Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Laboratoire d'Informatique, Robotique et Microélectronique de Montpellier
  • Stay at LIRMM (INRIA) - October 2009- March 2010

                - Massive Distributed Graphs on Shared-Nothing Architectures
                - INRIA hosting researcher: Patrick Valduriez




Awards

IBM Faculty Award 2009
  • To support research in the area of Autonomic Memory Management for Relations DBMS.
CINC Award 2009
  • Award to the best business idea in the framework of the 9th Business Ideas Competition of the Department of Innovation, Universities and Industry of Generalitat de Catalunya. (CINC: Centre Internacional de Negocis de Catalunya). Awarded candidates: Josep Lluis Larriba, Victor Muntés Mulero, Norbert Martínez Bazán and Pere Baleta.



Founded Spin-Offs

Sparsity Technologies S.L.
  • Co-founder of the company.
  • Founded in 2010 (http://www.sparsity-technologies.com)



Organization of International Events

  • PAVLAD: ACM First International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity for Very Large Datasets. In conjunction with CIKM 2009. Hong Kong, China. November 6, 2009.

                Role: Workshop Chair
                Link to ACM site

                Official Web site
 

  • UIM-GDB: First University-Industry Meeting on Graph Databases. February 7-8, 2011.
                Role: Meeting Organizer
                Link to site



Invited Talks and Courses

  • "Graph Stream Processing and Mining", Ericsson Spain. Madrid, Spain. February 2011.
  • “Graph Partitioning Strategies for Efficient BFS in Shared-Nothing Parallel Systems”. INRIA/LIRMM (Université de Montpellier 2). Montpellier, France. March 2010.
  • “Exploiting Pipeline Interruptions for Efficient Memory Allocation”, Microsoft Labs. Aliso Viejo, CA, USA. March, 2010.
  • “DEX: A Massive Graph Data Management System”. INRIA/LIRMM (Université de Montpellier 2). Montpellier, France. October 2009.
  • “Bitmap Indexing for Very Large Graphs”, IBM Almaden Research Labs. Almaden, CA, USA. October 2008.
  • “Genetic Optimization for Large Join Queries”, IBM Bangalore Labs. Bangalore, India. 2007.
  • “Course on Internals on Database Management Systems”, University of Reading, UK. May 2003



Participation in Program Committees

  • GDM 2011 (Graph Databases)
  • SIASP 2010
  • HPCC 2009 (Database Application and Data Mining Track)
  • CSE 2009 (Database and Data Mining Track)



Patents

Method, System and Program for Joining Source Table rows with Target Table Rows
  • Inventors: Josep L. Larriba-Pey,  Victor Muntés-Mulero, Hebert W. Pereyra, Josep Aguilar-Saborit, Calisto P. Zuzarte
  • Number: CA9-2004-0032
  • Country: USA
  • Owner: IBM


Method for Representing and Manipulating Multigraphs, based on the Use of Bitmaps.
  • Inventors: Josep L. Larriba-Pey,  Norbert Martínez-Bazán, Victor Muntés-Mulero and Sergio Gómez-Villamor
  • Publication number: WO2010010436 (A2)
  • Publication: 28-01-2010
  • Country: (Europe)
  • Owner: UPC



Publications

2010

D. Dominguez-Sal, N. Martinez-Bazan, V. Muntes-Mulero, Pere Baleta, J. L. Larriba-Pey. In TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking. (Singapore, September 17, 2010).
 
Joan Guisado-Gámez, Antoni Wolski, Calisto Zuzarte, Josep-Lluís Larriba-Pey and Victor Muntés-Mulero. In Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications. (Bilbao, Spain, August 30- September 3, 2010).

Victor Muntés-Mulero, Norbert Martínez-Bazán, Josep-L Larriba-Pey, Esther Pacitti, Patrick Valduriez. International Workshop on Graph Databases 2010. Jiuzhai, China.
 
Arnau Padrol-Sureda, Guillem Perarnau-Llobet, Julian Pfeifle, and Victor Muntés-Mulero. In Proceeding of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (Long Beach, California, USA, March 1 - 6, 2010). ICDE 2010, 992-995.
 

2009

Muntés-Mulero, V. and Nin, J. 2009. In Proceeding of the 18th ACM Conference on information and Knowledge Management (Hong Kong, China, November 02 - 06, 2009). CIKM '09. ACM, New York, NY, 2117-2118.
 

2008

Jordi Pont-Tuset, Jordi Nin, Pau Medrano-Gracia, Josep Ll. Larriba-Pey and Victor Muntés-Mulero. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 5285/2008. MDAI 2008. 215-226.
 
Gómez-Villamor, S., Soldevila-Miranda, G., Giménez-Vañó, A., Martínez-Bazan, N., Muntés-Mulero, V., and Larriba-Pey, J. 2008. In Proceedings of the 11th international Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology (Nantes, France, March 25 - 29, 2008). EDBT '08, vol. 261. ACM, New York, NY, 735-739.
 
Aguilar-Saborit, J., Jalali, M., Sharpe, D., and Muntés-Mulero, V. 2008. In Proceeding of the 17th ACM Conference on information and Knowledge Management (Napa Valley, California, USA, October 26 - 30, 2008). CIKM '08. ACM, New York, NY, 639-648.
 
J. Aguilar-Saborit, P. Trancoso, V. Muntes-Mulero and J.L. Larriba-Pey. Data & Knowledge Engineering, Volume 66, Issue 1, July 2008, Pages 92-115.
 
Guisado-Gamez, J. and Prat-Perez, A. and Nin, J. and Muntes-Mulero, V. and Larriba-Pey, J.L. Proceedings of the UNESCO Chair in data privacy international conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases. Springer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 5262/2008. PSD 2008. 190-202.(202 pages). 2008.
 
Jordi Pont Tuset, Pau Medrano Gracia, Jordi Nin, Josep L. Larriba Pey and Victor Muntés Mulero. SOFSEM 2008: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. Volume 4910/2008. Pag. 634-645. ISBN: 978-3-540-77565-2. Ed. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. 2008. Acceptance: 57 of 162: 35,18%
 

2007

Pau Medrano Gracia, Jordi Pont, Jordi Nin and Victor Muntés Mulero. proc. of MDAI, pags 361-372, 2007, Japan, Volume 4617. Book: Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence . ISBN 978-3-540-73728-5.

 

J.Aguilar Saborit, V. Muntés Mulero, C. Zuzarte, J. L. Larriba Pey. Published in DKE 2007. Data & Knowledge Engineering, Volume 63 , Issue 3 (December 2007), Pages 995-1013, ISSN:0169-023X.

 

Victor Muntés Mulero, Néstor Lafón Gracia, Josep Aguilar-Saborit, and Josep-L. Larriba-Pey. Published in Proc. of DASFAA ’07 proceedings, pags 6-17. LNCS.

 

N.Martinez-Bazán, J.Nin, S.Gómez-Villamor, M.A.Sánchez-Martínez, V. Muntés-Mulero, J. L. Larriba-Pey. Published in CIKM’07, pags 573-582 by ACM publishing, New York.

 

Jordi Nin, Jordi Pont-Tuset, Pau Medrano-Gracia, Josep L.Larriba-Pey, Victor Muntes-Mulero. IPC: International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing, 2007. 11-13 October 2007. pages 29-34 ISBN: 978-0-7695-3006-0

 

J.Nin, J. Pont-Tuset, P. Medrano-Gracia, J. L. Larriba-Pey, V. Muntés-Mulero, Anonymizing Data via Polynomial Regression Proceedings of the Computer Science Spanish conference (CEDI). II Simposium of Computational security, pages: 19-26, ISBN: 978-84-9732-607-0, Int. Thomson Editores, 8 pages.

 

Jordi Nin, Victor Muntés Mulero, Norbet Martínez Bazán i Josep L. Larriba Pey. Proceedings of the 11th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS).Published by IEEE, 2007. ISBN:978-0-7695-2947-9.

 

Jordi Nin, Victor Muntés-Mulero, N. Martínez-Bazán and Josep L. Larriba Pey. Proceedings of CCIA. Pages 141-149, ISBN:0922-6389, IOS Press

 

2006

Victor Muntés-Mulero, Josep Aguilar-Saborit and Josep L. Larriba-Pey (DAMA-UPC); Calisto Zuzarte (IBM Canada Ltd); Volker Markl (IBM Almaden Research Center). In Proc. of IDEAS 06, pp. 249-255. December 2006. ISBN 0-7695-2577-6.

 

Victor Muntés Mulero, Josep Aguilar Saborit, Calisto Zuzarte and Josep Lluís Larriba Pey. In Proc. of JISBD 2006, pp. 131-140 October 2006. ISBN 960-8457-47-5.
Tamaño del Archivo: 189 kb.

 

Victor Muntés Mulero, Marta Pérez-Casany, Josep Aguilar Saborit, Calisto Zuzarte, and Josep-Ll. Larriba-Pey. In Proc. of DEXA'06. LNCS-4080, pp. 707-717, September 2006. ISBN 3-540-37871-5. Krakow, Poland.

 

Sergio Gómez-Villamor, V. Muntés-Mulero, M. Pérez-Cassany, John Tran, Steve Rees and J. L. Larriba Pey. Proc. of Europar 2006. LNCS-4128, pp. 3-14, August 2006. ISBN-10: 3-540-37783-2.

 

Victor Muntés-Mulero, Josep Aguilar-Saborit, Calisto Zuzarte, Volker Markl, and Josep-L. Larriba-Pey. In Proc. of BNCOD '06. LNCS-4042, pp. 240-244, July 2006. ISBN 3-540-35969-9.

 

Victor Muntés-Mulero, Marta Pérez-Casany, Josep Aguilar-Saborit and Josep-Lluís Larriba-Pey. In Proc. of IWSM '06,  July 2006. ISBN 1-86220-180-3. 
 
Victor Muntés Mulero, Josep Aguilar-Saborit, Calisto Zuzarte, and Josep L. Larriba-Pey. In Proc. of ICCS 2006. LNCS-3991, pp. 156-163, Reading, UK, May 2006. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-34381-4.

 

J. Aguilar Saborit, P. Trancoso, V. Muntés-Mulero, J. L. Larriba Pey.b SIGMOD Record 35 (1), 2006. pp.26-32. ISSN 0163-5808.

 

J. Aguilar-Saborit, V. Muntes-Mulero, C. Zuzarte, A. Zubiri, and J. L. Larriba Pey 2006. In Proceedings of the 14th Euromicro international Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (Pdp'06) - Volume 00 (February 15 - 17, 2006). PDP. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 28-35.

 

2005

J. Aguilar Saborit, V. Muntés Mulero, C. Zuzarte, J. Larriba Pey. In Proc. Of DAWAK 2005. LNCS-3589, pp. 200-209, August 2005. ISBN: 3- 54028558-X.

 

J. Aguilar-Saborit, V. Muntés-Mulero, C. Zuzarte, H. Pereyra, J. Larriba-Pey. In Proceedings of IWIA 2005, pp. 29-37. September 2005. ISBN: 0-7695-2483-4.

 

2004

J. Aguilar-Saborit, V. Muntés-Mulero, C. Zuzarte, H. Pereyra and J. Larriba-Pey. In XV Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 444-449. ISBN: 84-8240-714-7. 2004.

 

V. Muntés-Mulero, J. Aguilar-Saborit, J. Larriba-Pey and C. Zuzarte. In XV Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 90-95. ISBN: 84-8240-714-7. 2004.

2003

J. Aguilar Saborit, V. Muntés-Mulero and J. Larriba-Pey. Proc. Of the EUROPAR Conf/. LNCS-2790, pp. 328-337, August 2003. ISBN 3-540-40788-X.
 

2002

Josep Aguilar Saborit, Victor Muntés Mulero and Josep Lluís Larriba Pey. Proceedings of XIII Jornadas de Paralelismo. Pages 389-395



Books

Victor Muntés-Mulero. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (11 Jan 2011). ISBN: 978-3843391757.

 




Book Chapters

Jordi Pont-Tuset, Jordi Nin, Pau Medrano-Gracia, Josep Lluis Larriiba-Pey, Victor Muntés-Mulero. Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Privacy Protection and Security. Intelligent Information Systems, Vol. 1. ISBN 981-279-032-2. World Scientific Publishing co. Pte. Ltd. Singapore. Pages 81-115. 2009.

 




Book Collaborations

Collaboration preparing exercises related to web graph compression.
 



Master Thesis Advised

Master Student: Joan Guisado Gámez
Defended: February 2010

Master Student: Arnau Padrol Sureda
Defended: June 2009

Master Student: Norbert Martínez Bazán
Defended: September 2008

Master Student: Mario Alejandro Sánchez Martínez
Defended: July 2008
 


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