Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
UTEP Distinguished Teaching Professor
UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers
AT&T Fellow II
RESEARCH
Decision making under uncertainty, using global optimization, constraint solving, and interval computations:
Specifically, over the years, I have worked on decision making for large dynamical systems under uncertainty, using reduced-order modeling of large computationally-intensive problems. For a while, I toyed with the problem of combinatorial testing, in particular t-wise covering test suites.
These days, I am developing an interest for optimization for neural networks, specifically as constraints and uncertainty may be involved.
Teaching
Teaching is a passion. I discuss my teaching philosophy in a few of my blogs. If you are looking for information about the courses I have taught over the years, please visit my page on teaching.
ADVISING
If you are trying to make an appointment with me for (under-graduate) advising, please go to my appointment scheduling page and suggest three 15-minute time slots among the times that are NOT shown busy, at least 2 business days in advance. Also, please make sure that you are making time suggestions on Mountain Standard Time.
OUTREACH
- Example: YISD-Webinar-030614 about code.org on March 6, 2014
- More at this link: here
For a more complete description of my work, visit the research section of this website (or visit the website of my research group: CR2G) or check my resume.
Resource for students:
For all students in need of help regarding time management, please take 5 minutes to visit this link to a time management diagnostic tool.
Other web resources:
- Constraint Research and Reading Group (CR2G): website of my research group
- Constraint Solving: website about constraints where you can find tutorials on constraints, soft constraints, a list of conferences related to constraints, a list of people doing research in constraint-related areas, a guide about constraint solvers, etc.