Dr. Alvaro Monge debriefed... 
I am a tenured (yeah!) Professor in the CECS deparment at Cal State University Long Beach (CSULB). You can read a description of the Classes I teach which include the database courses: CECS-323, CECS-423, and CECS-521 as well as the upcoming course on Search Engine Technology, CECS-429. I am involved in curriculum development at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I graduated with a Ph.D. in July 1997 from the computer science department at University of California San Diego. Prior to graduate school, I studied computer science at University of California Riverside.
Fall 2009 Schedule
My office is in the ECS building, 5th floor, ECS-547
| Assigned course or duty | Days of week | Time |
|---|---|---|
| CECS-174: Intro. to Programming and Problem Solving | Mon/Wed | 8-8:50am ECS-302 (Lec) 9-10:15am ECS 403 (Lab) |
| CECS-491: Software Development Project | Mon/Wed | 5-6:15pm, VEC-402 |
| Office Hours (for students in my classes) |
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday | 2 to 3pm. No office hours on Tuesday November 24th, due to a personal furlough day. |
| Undergraduate Advising for Computer Science majors |
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday | 3 to 4:30pm (walk-in). No advising on Tuesday November 24th, due to a personal furlough day. |
Research
My most research interest lies in the area of computer science education. I have been part of multi-institutional research teams studying the design skills of undergraduate computer science students. My interest now is in the application of the computer science education research techniques to study the database design skills of students and to improve teaching of fundamental topics in database systems.
During my doctorate graduate studies and in the first few years as a professor, I performed research in the areas of software information agents, search engines, and information integration. My PhD thesis considers the problem of detecting duplicate records in a database -- such as those found on mailing lists used by mass-mail marketers.
Any interested graduate students considering the thesis option to satisfy the requirements for the MSCS degree, please feel free to contact me. I can help you choose a topic, suggest topics of interest, or direct you to other faculty members. Of most interest to me are the topics of database systems, information retrieval, data structures and algorithms, and Internet technology.
Publications
- F. Menczer, A. Monge, N. Street: Adaptive Assistants for Customized E-Shopping. IEEE Intelligent Systems 17(6): 12-19, Nov-Dec 2002
- F. Menczer, N. Street, N. Vishwakarma, A. Monge, M. Jakobsson: IntelliShopper: A Proactive, Personal, Private Shopping Assistant. Proc. 1st ACM Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2002) pp. 1001-1008
- F. Menczer, A.E. Monge: Scalable Web Search by Adaptive Online Agents: An InfoSpiders Case Study. In M. Klusch, ed., Intelligent Information Agents, Springer, 1999.
- My Ph.D. Thesis: Adaptive detection of approximately duplicate database records and the database integration approach to information discovery. University of California, San Diego, 1997. thesis.pdf
