RECENT PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
March 2016 - Present
DEAN, COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
January 2015 - Present
REGENTS PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
July 2014 - March 2016
ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING AND RESOURCES
January 2009 - June 2014
DEPARTMENT HEAD OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
August 1997
New Mexico State University, Computer Science, Las Cruces, NM
PH.D.
July 1992
University of Houston, Computer Science, Houston, TX
M.SC.
March 1991
University of Udine, Udine, Italy
LAUREA
GRADUATE ADVISEES
Working Together
CURRENT DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Fabio Tardivo
Antonio Arredondo
PAST DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Karen Villaverde (2002)
Emad Saad (2005)
Islam Elkabani (2006)
Hung Le Viet (2007)
Omar Elkhatib (2007)
Yu Pan (2007)
Chongbing Liu (2008)
Iyad Abu Doush (2009)
Abdulla Alqaddoumi (2016)
Ben Wright (2019)
Nancy Alajarmeh (2014)
Ferdinando Fioretto (2016)
Federico Campeotto (2014)
Saurabh Gupta (2014)
Rajaa Shindi (2012)
Ahmad AL-Jarrah (2016)
Muhanand Manshad (2019)
Emmanuel Utreras (2021)
PAST MASTER'S STUDENTS
K. Deopura
Z. Yu
G. Khanjua
A. Jayanti
G. Chen
P. Thota
W. Xiong
I. Flores Mendoza
F. Bermudez
N. Bodla
K. Kutikala
H. Al-Sheboul
C. Wallace
M. Bokam
H. Poogalia
S. Wu
R. Reddy
Y. Wu
S. Thodupunuri
X. Xiao
I. Strascina
S. Dange
Y. Flores Mendoza
R. Shindi
J. Cabrera
N. Javaher
B. Dharmana
V. Vegi
S. Pinnamaraju
N. Arkatala
S. Syed
F. Mohammed
S. Alluri
K. Chopperla
S. Kalapala
A. Shah
R. Naviri
J. Pinto
A. Gaddam
V. Mekala
R. Mangalagiri
S. Gaddam
B. Palmer
A. Arredondo
B. Wright
S. Inapurapu
S. Punugu
L. Rajaram
M. Manshad
S. Ramamoorthy
A. Al-Shoraman
F. Fioretto
N. Nesiba
F. Fabiano
P. Grignaffini
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING
Planning, Multi-Agent Systems, Diagnosis, Negotiation, Epistemic Reasoning
LOGIC AND CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING
Theoretical foundations of logic programming and constraint programming; language extensions; parallel logic programming; aggregates and other language extensions; applications of logic programming
COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION
BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING
K-12 Computer Science Education; CS pathways; advancing Hispanic students in Computing; advancing women in computing; STEM equity and inclusion
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Non-visual Access to complex and visual information; non-visual access to mathematics; computing education for individuals with disabilities
BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Evolutionary Bioinformatics; informatics infrastructures for biological analysis; data integration; protein structure prediction
SMARTGRIDS
AI applications in smartgrid designs and control; multi-agent systems for critical infrastructures
RELEVANT LINKS
PUBLICATIONS
CAHSI
The Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI) is a NSF-funded alliance positioned to advance Hispanics in computing. CAHSI is both a BPC alliance as well as an INCLUDES alliance.
YWIC
Young Women in Computing (YWiC) offers fun and engaging activities for students. Our primary goal is to share the creativity of computing through hands-on tasks and project-based learning. We want all young women and men throughout our region to realize their potential for becoming a true creator of technology, and not just a user!
ICREDITS
The vision for iCREDITS is to create a permanent and internationally recognized research center, focused on the development of the science of intelligent smart grid technologies (IST), that prepares a diverse cadre of students to make a local and global impact in the smart grids science and engineering workforce.
CONTACT
MSC 3335, P.O. Box 30001
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
575-646-3500