Carlos Monroy

Carlos Monroy
Game Research and Development
713-348-5481
cm13@rice.edu

Education 

• Ph.D. Computer Science (2010)
  Texas A&M University
• M.C.S. Computer Science (2002)
  Texas A&M University
• B.S. Computer Science (1996)
  Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala

Affiliations 

• International Network of Guatemalan Scientists
• Member, IEEE Computer Society
• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Member, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALCC)

Bio Statement 

Carlos Monroy received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 2010. His collaboration with the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation at Texas A&M, lead to the creation of the Nautical Archaeology Digital Library (an NSF-funded project). This work inspired his doctoral dissertation, which exploits relations in a multilingual glossary and an ontology for improving information contextualization in the reconstruction of ancient sunken ships.

In the spring of 2009 Carlos joined CTTL, where he works in research and development of on-line games for education. One of his projects investigates the use of science games by tweens in a virtual world (whyville.net).

Prior to joining Rice, Carlos was involved in various research projects in digital humanities including computational analysis of Don Quixote, an on-line collection documenting Picasso's life and work, and a computing approach to English poetry. Carlos' research is multidisciplinary; he says that working collaboratively with researchers and scholars in other disciplines is extremely stimulating and engaging.

His primary interests are educational games, digital libraries, linguistics computing, and digital humanities. In addition, he is also interested in information visualization, nautical archaeology, genetic algorithms, and multidisciplinary and multicultural collaborations.

Before joining Rice University, Carlos worked as research assistant at the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries at Texas A&M University. Previously he held a position as researcher and lecturer at Universidad Rafael Landívar (Guatemala), where he taught simulation and programming. In industry, his expertise as consultant involved projects for companies such as Sony and IBM in Guatemala.
 

Selected publications

Monroy, C. Book Review: Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies. Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2009. In Literary and Linguistic Computing. Oxford Journals. August 2011. 

Monroy, C., Klisch, Y., and Miller, L. Emerging Contexts for Science Education: Embedding a Forensic Science Game in a Virtual World. In Proceedings of the iConference 2011. ACM Press. New York 2011.

Meneses, L., Monroy, C., Furuta, R., and Mallen, E. Computational Approaches to a Catalogue Raisonné of Pablo Picasso. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis. Forthcoming Spring 2011.

Monroy, C., Castro, F., and Furuta, R. A Digital Library Perspective: The Synthesis and Storage of Maritime Archaeological Data to Assist in Ship Reconstruction. In Catsambis, A., Ford, B., and Hamilton, D. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology. Oxford University Press. In press, May 2011.

Monroy, C., Furuta, R., and Castro F., Using an Ontology and a Multilingual Glossary for Enhancing the Nautical Archaeology Digital Library. Proceedings of ACM-IEEE joint conference on digital libraries. The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2010.

Monroy, C., Furuta, R., and Castro F., Ask Not What Your Text Can do For You. Ask What You Can do For Your Text (a Dictionary’s perspective). Digital Humanities, University of Maryland, 2009.

Monroy, C., Stringer, G., and Furuta, R., DigitalDonne: New Tools for Textual Presentation and Analysis, Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 2008.

Meneses, L., Monroy, C., and Mallen, E., Picasso’s Poetry: the Case of a Bilingual Concordance. Digital Humanities. Oulu, Finland, 2008.

Monroy, C., Furuta, R., and Castro F., A Multilingual Approach to Technical Manuscripts: 16th and 17th-century Portuguese Shipbuilding Treatises. In Proceedeings of ACM-IEEE joint conference on digital libraries, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2007.

Monroy, C., Furuta, R., and Stringer, G., Digital Donne: Workflow, Editing Tools, and the Reader’s Interface of a Collection of 17th-century English Poetry. In Proceedeings of ACM-IEEE joint conference on digital libraries, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2007.

Singh, M., Furuta, R., Urbina, E., Audenaert, N., Deng, J., and Monroy, C., Expanding a Humanities Digital Library: Musical References in Cervantes' Works. In proceedings of European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Alicante, Spain, 2006.

Urbina, E., Furuta, R., Smith, S., Audenaert, N., Deng, J., and Monroy, C., Visual Knowledge: Textual Iconography of the Quixote, a Hypertextual Archive, Literary and Linguistic Computing, (Oxford UP) Vol 21.2 (2006) : 247-258.

Audenaert, N., Furuta, R., Urbina, E., Deng, J., Monroy, C., Sáenz, R., and Careaga, D., Integrating Diverse Research in a Digital Library Focused on a Single Author. In proceedings of European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, pp. 151-61. Germany, 2005.

Monroy, C., Furuta, R., Urbina, E., and Mallen, E., Texts, Images, Knowledge: Visualizing Cervantes and Picasso. In proceedings of, Visual Knowledges Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2003.

Monroy, C., Furuta, R., and Mallen, E., Visualizing and Exploring Picasso's World. In Proceedeings of ACM-IEEE joint conference on digital libraries, pp. 173-175, 2003.

Monroy, C.,, Kochumman, R., Furuta, R., Urbina, E., Melgoza, E., and Goenka, A., Visualization of Variants in Textual Collations to Analyze the Evolution of Literary Works in The Cervantes Project. In proceedings of European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, pp. 638-653, Rome, Italy, 2002.

Monroy, C., Kochumman, R., Furuta, R., and Urbina, E., Interactive Timeline Viewer (ItLv): A Tool to Visualize Variants Among Documents, Proc Second International Workshop on Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries. In proceedeings of ACM-IEEE joint conference on digital libraries. Portland, Oregon, 2002.

Urbina, E., Furuta, R., Goenka, A., Kochumman, R., Melgoza, E., and Monroy, C., Critical Editing in the Digital Age: Informatics and Humanities Research, Proc Conference on The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, March 2002. John Frow, ed., Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (UK).