1991-1999

Ph.D in Computer Science

Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, New York, New York

1983- 1988

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Mayagüez, P.R.

Feb. 2007 – present

Interim Associate Dean of Multicultural Education

Hampshire College, Amherst MA.

1999-present

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Hampshire College, School of Cognitive Science, Amherst, MA

Summer 2001

Visiting Instructor

Brandeis University School of Continuing Studies, Waltham , MA

• Teaching two graduate sections of a course in Perl Programming, both at the Brandeis campus and at an EMC site.

Sept 1997- May 1998

Substitute Instructor

City College of New York, Department of Computer Science, New York , NY

• Teaching courses in programming languages and data structure

Sept 1993- May 1997

Graduate Fellow

Graduate School and University Center , CUNY, New York, NY

• Performing installation, maintenance, and training of a Unix-based research computer laboratory.

1988-1991

Process Support Engineer

Abbott Chemicals Inc., Barceloneta, P.R.

• Designing, implementing, testing, giving maintenance, and training personnel in the use of computerized production lines.

Evolution of NN for the Design of Virtual Agents under Limited Resources Constraints

To appear in the Proceedings of the 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.

The Digital Divide
Chapter in The Handbook of Information Security, published by John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

The Digital Divide
Chapter in The Internet Encyclopedia, published by John Wiley & Sons, 2004.

Evolution of Hierarchical Neural Networks for Time-dependent Cognitive Processes: Key Recognition for Musical Compositions
Proceeding of the 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation.

Disruption Analysis for Neural Network Topology Evolution Systems
Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 2002.

Genetic evolution of neural networks that remember
Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Neural Networks, 2002.

Genetic Algorithms and the Evolution of Neural Networks for Language Processing
CELE-Twente Workshop on Language Technology, 2000.

A New Metric for Evaluating Genetic Optimization of Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the First IEEE Symposium on Combinations of Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks, 2000.

Genetic Evolution of Sensors and Topology for a Neurally Controlled Robot.
Workshop Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2000)

Exploring the Relationship Between Neural Network Topology and Optimal Training Set by Means of Genetic Algorithms.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, 1999

Genetic Optimization of NN Topologies for the Task of Natural Language Processing.
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1999

Optimizing initial neural network configurations for the task of natural language processing.
Presented at the 1998 AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium, Madison Wisconsin. Also presented as a poster at the AAAI Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Neural network pruning and topology for natural language processing.
Presented as a poster at the 11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 1998.

2002

STEMTEC Fellow
NSF funded project investigating the scholarship and practice of teaching.

2002

Case Studies in Science Summer Workshop

Investigating Ways to Design and Deploy Student-centered Courses.

2001, 2002

Participant, SENCER Summer Institute
NSF funded institute on science education for new civic engagements and responsibilities.

Summer 2006

Intelligent System Design and Applications

Peer review of papers for Artificial Intelligence Conference.

Spring 2006

CCSCE 2006

Peer review of papers for the Anual Meeting of the Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges, Estearn Conference.

September 2005

National Science Foundation Panel
Reviewing Grant Proposals to the Information and Intelligent Systems Text Program.

July 2005

National Science Foundation Panel
Reviewing Grant Proposals to the Information and Intelligent Systems Advance Learning Technologies Program.

April 2005

BioSystems Journal.

Peer Review of Paper.

2003

The Internet Encyclopedia.

Peer review of two chapter submissions.

1998-1999

Five Colleges/Mendenhall Fellowship
Awarded to minority doctoral candidates in the final stage of completing their degrees.

1994-1998

Stanton Heiskell Center Fellow
Researching ways in which technology can be used to enhance education of at-risk high school students.

1996

Belle Zeller Fellow
 Annual recognition of student involvement in community service.

2000-2005

Board Member, Latino Scholarship Association
Providing college scholarships to deserving students of color in the Pioneer Valley.

1995-1998

Student Member, Computer Science Department Executive Committee, Graduate School and University Center, CUNY.

1995-1997

DSC (Doctoral Student Council) member
The DSC is the student Government Body of CUNY's Graduate Center.

1995-1996

Board Member, Center for Puerto Rican Studies Community Advisory Board, Hunter College, CUNY.

1995

Boston → New York AIDS ride

Raising funds to support AIDS community groups serving New York City.

1993-1995

Coordinator, AELLA (Association of Latino and Latin American Student)

1994-1995

Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Graduate School and University Center
This committee was assembled by the President of the Graduate Center, and had a its mandate to make recommendations that would guide all decision-making processes at the Graduate Center.