CURRICULUM VITAE
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Education
Ph.D. Computer Science
- Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI September 2012 - December 2017
- Dissertation Title: A Hybrid Parallel Approach to High-Performance Compression of Big Genomic Files and In Compresso Data Processing.
- Advisor: Fahad Saeed, Ph.D.
- Defense Date: August 2017
M.S. Computer Science
- Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI September 2009 - January 2012
- Advisor: Ala Al-Fuqaha, Ph.D.
B.S. Computer and Systems Engineering
- Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. Santiago, Dominican Republic January 2004 - July 2008
- Senior Project: Administrative Software Solution for Acción Callejera, an NGO in the Dominican Republic dedicated to work with street connected youth (Dominican nationals and Haitian immigrants), who are either working or sleeping on the streets.
- magna cum laude
Computational Skills
Professional Experience
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, Kalamazoo College September 2018 - Present
- COMP490 - Senior Seminar: Computing For the Environment and Social Justice
- COMP490 - Senior Seminar: Web Development
- COMP481 - Parallel Computing
- COMP485 - Networking & Dist. Systems
- COMP210 - Data Structures
- COMP110 - Introduction To Programming
- COMP108 - Introduction To Scientific Computing
- COMP107 - Pictures and Sounds: Programming with Multimedia
- COMP105 - Introduction To Computer Science
- COMP102 - Programming Basics for JavaScript/Web Development
Instructor (adjunct)
Department of Computer Science, Western Michigan University September 2017 - May 2018
- CS-3500: Introduction to Web Technologies
- Supervisor: Li Yang, Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Parallel Computing and Data Science Laboratory, Western Michigan University January 2015 - December 2017
- Supervisor: Fahad Saeed, Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant
Department of Computer Science, Western Michigan University January 2016 - April 2017
- CS-3500: Introduction to Web Technologies
- CS-4430/CS-5430: Database Management Systems
- Supervisor: Li Yang, Ph.D.
VuFind - Library Catalog Programmer
Western Michigan University Libraries (Waldo Library), Western Michigan University January 2012 - April 2015
- Supervisor: Keith Kelley, Ph.D.
Graduate Assistant
Western Michigan University Libraries (Waldo Library), Western Michigan University September 2010 - December 2011
- Supervisor: Keith Kelley, Ph.D.
Awards & Recognition
Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Chair
- Recognition of teaching, scholarship, and service record at Kalamazoo College. September 2022 - August 2024
XSEDE EMPOWER
- Expert Mentoring Producing Opportunities for Work, Education, and Research: an undergraduate student program whose goal is to expand the community of advanced research in computing. September 2019 - December 2019
- Mentee: Caroline Skalla
Grants
- Heyl Summer Research Grant, Kalamazoo College June 2023
- Teaching and Learning Committee's Pedagogical Development Grant, Kalamazoo College February 2020
Research Award
- Computer Science Graduate Student Research Award April 2017
Travel Awards
- SIGCSE 2020 Conference. Portland, OR (Canceled due to COVID-19 Pandemic) March 2020
- Tapia Conference 2016 (Declined). Austin, TX September 2016
- 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics. Helsinki, Finland August 2015
WMU Grad Talks - 3MT Competition
- Three-Minute Thesis Competition (Winner). Kalamazoo, MI February 2016
- Representative of Western Michigan University at the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Conference. Chicago, IL April 2016
XSEDE Allocation - TG-CCR150017
- Allocation of time and space to work on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) super-computing infrastructure (the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world) April 2015 - June 2018
- Extension of allocation: 2016 and 2017.
Peer Review & Committees
Elsevier's JPDC
Invited reviewer to Elsevier's Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. June 2024
HiCOMB 2023
Program Committee member for the 22nd IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology. February 2023
SIGCSE TS'2023
Program Committee member for reviewing submissions to the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) track. November 2022
NetMAHIB Journal
Invited reviewer to Springer's Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics. February 2021
Science Progress
Invited reviewer to SAGE's Science Progress. January 2021
IEEE/ACM TCBB Journal
Invited reviewer to the journal IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. December 2018, August 2019
IEEE TPDS Journal
Invited reviewer to the journal IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. December 2018, August 2019
Academic Presentations
Academic Computing Society
- Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI October 2016
- "Compression Strategies for Big Data"
- Invited speaker
Guest Lecturer
- Department of Computer Science, Western Michigan University
- CS6030 - High Performance Algorithms for Big Data Applications February 2017
- CS4310 - Design & Analysis of Algorithms April 2016
- CS6030 - High Performance Architecture & Algorithms January 2015
Research and Creative Activities Poster Day
- Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI April 2013
- "Identifying Overexpression of Genes in Cancerous Colorectal Tissue"