UTEP CS Bio Sketches: Olac Fuentes

Olac Fuentes
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas, 79968-0518
email:ofuentes@utep.e_ _
Phone: 915 - 747-6956
Fax: 915 - 747-5030

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Professor Fuentes' main research area is machine learning in science, in particular, the development of systems that can help scientists extract knowledge and insight from the large amounts of scientific data currently available. His is particularly interested issues such as the use of unlabeled data, active learning, intelligent optimization feature selection and creation, noise-insensitive and noise-aware algorithms, and the use of prior knowledge. He has worked in applications in astronomy, optics, geology and biology.
Dr. Fuentes received the B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Chihuahua, in Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1989, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at El Paso, in 1991, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Rochester, in 1997. From 1998 to 2005 he was a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Instituto National de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica.
Dr. Fuentes was a co-organizer of the First Iberoamerican Workshop on Machine Learning for Scientific Data Analysis, held in conjunction with IBERAMIA 2004 in Puebla, November 22, 2004.

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			Olac Fuentes Associate Professor Department of Computer Science The University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, Texas, 79968-0518 email:ofuentes@utep.e_ _ Phone: 915 - 747-6956 Fax: 915 - 747-5030 Professor Fuentes' Homepage

	Professor Fuentes' main research area is machine learning in science, in particular, the development of systems that can help scientists extract knowledge and insight from the large amounts of scientific data currently available. His is particularly interested issues such as the use of unlabeled data, active learning, intelligent optimization feature selection and creation, noise-insensitive and noise-aware algorithms, and the use of prior knowledge. He has worked in applications in astronomy, optics, geology and biology.
	Dr. Fuentes received the B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Chihuahua, in Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1989, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at El Paso, in 1991, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Rochester, in 1997. From 1998 to 2005 he was a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Instituto National de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica.
	Dr. Fuentes was a co-organizer of the First Iberoamerican Workshop on Machine Learning for Scientific Data Analysis, held in conjunction with IBERAMIA 2004 in Puebla, November 22, 2004.