head of Puerto Rico College of Engineers and Surveyors (CIAPR) Member of Personnel Committee 2012 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Member of Personnel Committee 2011 - Mobile Plus Cloud President and CEO 2010 -
member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Member Special Interest Group on the Management of Data (SIGMOD) Member
selected publications academic article Catalogue Manager for Metadata Dissemination in the NetTraveler Middleware System. Int. J. Intelligent Information and Database Systems. 5. 2011 A Distributed Architecture for Pervasive Shared Situational Awareness. IEEE Internet Computing Magazine. 12. 2008 A Cross-Layer Design Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks with Environmental Monitoring Applications. Journal of Communications Software and Systems. 3:207-214. 2007 Intelligent Power Routers A Distributed Coordination Approach for Electric Energy Processing Networks. International Journal of Critical Infrastructures. 3:20-57. 2007 chapter Intelligent Power Routers: Distributed Coordination for Electric Energy Processing Networks. Operation and Control of Electric Energy Processing Networks. Ed. Momoh, James. John Wiley & Sons. 2010 conference paper Autonomic Computing Drives Innovation of Energy Smart Grids. Complex Adaptive Systems. 2012 MedBook: A Cloud-based Healthcare Billing and Record Management System. IEEE Cloud Computing Conference. 2012 Estimating Power/Energy Consumption in Database Servers. Complex Adaptive Systems. 2011 Open911: Experiences with the Mobile Plus Cloud Paradigm. IEEE Cloud Computing Conference. 2011 Open Source Cloud Computing Tools: A Case Study with a Weather Application. IEEE Cloud Computing Conference. 2010 Obstacle Avoidance for Utility-based Geoacasting. International Conference on Information Technology (ITNG). 2009 Ranking Ad Hoc Data Sources and Query Processing Sites using Ant Colony Theory. Asia International Modeling Conference. 2009 Optimization of WAMDAS: A Web Service-Based Wireless Alarm Monitoring and Data Acquisition System for Pharmaceutical Plants. International Conference on Information Technology (ITNG). 2008 Design and Implementation of JSwitch: A Web-Based Transaction Coordination Framework. International Conference on Information Technology (ITNG). 2007 Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring Applications: A Design Framework. IEEE Globecom. 2007 Design and Implementation of the NetTraveler Middleware System based on Web Services. IEEE International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services. 2006
other research activities UPRM - Lockheed Martin Cloud Computing Project Investigator 2009 - CAREER: NetTraveler: A Database Middleware System for Ubiquitous Data Access on Wide-Area Networks Investigator 2005 - 2011 Google App for Education Project Manager 2009
teaching overview Academic Interests: -Mobile Computing -Cloud Computing -Database Management Systems
education and training Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park , Thesis: Automatic Deployment of Application-Specific Functionality in Database Middleware Systems 2001 M.S. in Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park 1996 B.S. in Mathematics, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. 1994
awards and honors Distinguished Professor Award by UPRM, conferred by University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 2006 NSF CAREER Award, conferred by National Science Foundation (NSF), 2005