member of American Meteorological Society Member American Statistical Society Member Operations Research Society Member
selected publications speech Validation of the Hydro-Estimator Rainfall Retrieval Algorithm over Puerto Rico 2008 academic article A Neural Network Approach to Estimate Activity Coefficients in Binary Systems. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. 87:748-760. 2009 Satellite Sub-Pixel Rainfall Variability. WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing. 7. 2008 Optimization of Electrical Energy Distribution for a Deficient System. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 44:761-772. 1993 chapter Drug Stability. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Handbook: Regulations and Quality. Ed. Cox Gad, Shayne. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience. 583-639. 2008 conference paper An Algorithm to Improve the NEXRAD Rain Rate Estimates. IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing (GRS) Symposium. 2007 An Empirical Model to Estimate Soil Moisture Over Vegetated Areas . 21st Conference on Hydrology, at the 87th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. 2007 Detection of Global and Caribbean Climate Changes. 19th Conference of Climate Variability, at the 87th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. 2007 Use of Neural Networks to Estimate Activity Coefficients. Congreso Interamericano de Computacion Aplicada a la Industria de Processos. 2007 Detection of a Local Climate Change. 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, at the 86th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. 2006 Prediction of Trends of Tropical Storms in the North Atlantic. Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. 2006 conference poster Optical Evidence of Land-Sea Interactions in the Western Coast of Puerto Rico 2002
presentations presentation Remote Sensing QPE Uncertainties Associated with Sub-Pixel Rainfall Variation, Collaborator, WSEAS International Conference 2008 Validation and Strategies to Improve of Hydro-Estimator and NEXRAD over Puerto Rico, Collaborator, WSEAS International Conference 2008
teaching overview Years of Service, 20 Assistant Professor, 1988 Associate Professor, 1991 Professor, 1997
education and training Ph.D., Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 1988 M.S., Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 1983 B.S., Technological Institute of Celaya, Mexico 1976
awards and honors Summer Faculty Fellowship, conferred by NASA, 2001 Distinguished Professor of the Industrial Engineering Department, conferred by University of Puerto Rico, 1995 EPSCoR Scholarly Productivity Award, conferred by National Science Foundation (NSF), 1996 - 1999
