Manuel Freire
Associate Professor (Profesor Titular)
Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolManuel Freire is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Universidad Complutense de Madrid with 14 years of academic experience and a PhD from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His research focuses on educational serious games and the authoring and evaluation of video games for e-learning, building on a strong background in information visualization, visual analytics, and adaptive hypermedia. He teaches web development, algorithms and data structures, and coaches his university's SWERC programming teams, blending rigorous theory with hands-on contest and lab experience. Manuel has international research experience as a Fulbright postdoctoral scholar at the University of Maryland’s HCI Lab, where he worked on network visualization. He combines expertise in HCI, graph-based interfaces, Java web applications, and Unix networking to develop practical tools and authoring environments that improve learning outcomes. Colleagues and students know him for designing thoughtful assignments and labs that push students toward both fundamentals and state-of-the-art topics.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Spanish, English, German, French
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Github Skills (61)
plagiarism-detection10
rendering9
java9
gamemaker9
linux9
windows9
android9
engine9
2d9
libgdx8
game-development8
cross-platform8
3d8
ios8
haxeflixel8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
manuel-freire/iw
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Material para la asignatura de Ingeniería Web, edición 2021-22, de la Facultad de Informática UCM
Contributions:75 commits, 3 PRs, 68 pushes in 2 years 11 months
ucminform
manuel-freire/ac2
Sep 2016 - Feb 2022
Source code plagiarism detection tool
Contributions:10 releases, 59 commits, 11 PRs in 5 years 5 months
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