Oscar Mayora becomes a Senior Member of ACM
CREATE-NET is proud to announce that its area Head Oscar Mayora was recently made a Senior Member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest education and scientific computing society.
Mayora, department head of Ubiquitous Interaction Group within CREATE-NET, was considered and awarded this title because he has been a professional member in the ACM, and has had more than 10 years of experience in the field. The successful candidate for Senior Member must have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers.
By being named a senior member, Mayora joined a distinguished list of colleagues to whom ACM will look to for guidance and leadership in computing and information technology. As one of ACM’s prestigious Advanced Member Grades, ACM Senior Member status recognizes the top 25 percent of ACM professional members for their demonstrated excellence in the computing field.
Dr. Mayora obtained his Ph. D. at DIBE, University of Genoa, Italy in 2000. In the same year, he joined the Advance Interactive Systems Laboratory at VTT Electronics in Oulu, Finland, as an ERCIM Visiting Research Fellow. In August 2001 he was appointed Associate Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey and Head of the Graduate Program in Computer Science in January 2002.
He has participated as general chair of various conferences and is founder of Pervasive Health Conference, Intetain, User Centric Media Conference and Latin American Conference on HCI. Dr. Mayora has published several papers in International Conferences and Journals and has coordinated projects in FP6 and FP7.