Doctor Chivo's page.
Carlos D. Martínez Hinarejos.

Creo que me he equivocado; quería en español.

Crec que m'he equivocat; volia en valencià.

Personal information

Well, it seems you want to know something about me; my name is Carlos David, and I took the pseudonym of Doctor Chivo from a spanish comic: "Pepe Gotera y Otilio"; in this comic (or tebeo, how is called in Spain) appears a book titled "El sentido común" ("The good sense"), whose author was Chivo Chaládez Regadera; this is a spanish pun, because "Chivo", "Chalado" and "Regadera" are synonym of fool, or crazy. So it was funny, I took it like Pepe Chivo for "La Cacería", the radio program by Producciones La Obeja Malla. Now that I got my Ph.D., I can properly use this title (he, he).

I was born in 1,975, and I have lived in Mislata since one and half year later; Mislata is a town by Valencia. All my family comes from a small village in the highlands of Cuenca, Campillos Paravientos, that I consider my real home. I always was a fatty boy, but since a few years ago I have an adequate weight. My childhood was good and peaceful, without problems except that which come from my natural shyness. I grew with my school friends, my nephews (I am uncle since I was eight; a nice experience), and the Dire Straits' songs my brother heard on the nights.

My first experience with Internet was with a Role-Playing game named "Nightfall", and it was an absolutely failure; later, with the WWW, I started to access with more frequecy to the net, and in 1,996 I began this page, where I talk about all my hobbys.

I have several hobbys; Computer Science is one of them, because I studied it when I could have studied other course; I like listening to music (I love specially the blues), I play the guitar (not very well, I'm not Mark Knopfler), and I read (but not very frequently) japanese manga, but I love "Ranma 1/2", about told me my colleague from Producciones La Obeja Malla, Jorge Montesinos. In the latest years, my liking to comic and, more specifically, manga has grown, but not very much.

I also like cinema, alone or with friends; my favourite actress is Jodie Foster, who is like a goddess for me. I like watching good TV programs too (like "The Simpsons", "X files", "Ally McBeal", "South Park", "Friends" and specially "Seinfeld", among others); and I also love listening to radio. And I love soccer (but not the mass media pressure on soccer).

I also like going with my friends, talking, walking, working (I like my job a lot) and thinking about personal relationships and politics.

Academic information

When I graduated at my Primary School, at 1,989, I passed to Mislata's High School (currently La Moreria High School), where I studied for four years; after that, I went to the Politechnical University of Valencia in 1,993, where I graduated in 1,998 in Engineering in Computer Science. I obtained my Master Degree in Pattern Recognition and Artificial Inteligence in December 2,000, in the Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación (Information Systems and Computation department). In July, 25th of 2,003 I read my Ph.D. dissertation The median string and its application to Pattern Recognition and I obtained the Ph.D. degree.

Professional information

I had a grant from the Education Ministry over two years, but in November 2,000 I obtained a job as Assistant Professor at the Politechnical University of Valencia, although my laboral stability is not clear at all (due to the new Spanish University laws). Currently, I give lessons in the Faculty of Computer Science, teaching different matters.

My office is at the new building for DSIC, but I still keep contact with Instituto Tecnológico de Informática (Technological Institute of Computer Science) in this same University, where I research in the fields of Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology.

I have worked on several projects on these fields (about machine translation, dialogue systems, speech technologies aplication...). I have also made publications on conferences of these areas.

Apart from Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology, I have research interests on Control Theory. I attended to lessons of the department of Systems Engineering and Automation to complet my knowledge of the area.


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