I am an Assistant Professor of the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). I joined the department in Fall 2017. Before that, I was a Research Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of CyberShare Center of Excellence at UTEP.
I graduated with a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. I received my MS from Montana State University-Bozeman in Computer Science, and BS from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Computer Science and Engineering.
I work in the broad areas of data science, specially information retrieval and integration, data mining, prediction, and recommendation. I use data science concepts to address computational challenges in application areas of cyber-security, educational games, and gamification.
I am looking for interested graduate students who are highly motivated and have a strong academic background. Please email me if you are interested.
Fundings Awards
Federal grants
NSF IUSE proposal for An Online Tool to Support Productive Struggles and Improve the Self-Efficacy of Undergraduates Students in Introductory Computer Science Courses was awarded funding in 2022.
NSF SFS renewal grant for Advancing A Successful Cybersecurity Education And Workforce Development Program was awarded funding in 2021.
Our recent NSF STEM+C proposal on building A Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) for Developing Computational Thinking through Linguistically and Culturally Relevant CS Curriculum in Middle School was awarded funding in Fall 2019.
An NSF IUSE proposal (Collaborative Research: Active Learning for Out-of-class Activities to Improve Student Success), in collaboration with the Winston-Salem State University, was awarded funding in Fall 2017.
NSF SUPPLEMENT through CyberShARE and the Digital Library Research Laboratory at Virginia Tech to investigate recommendation systems and the management of essential metadata and relationships needed to integrate and analyze information collected from disparate sources in 2016 .
Industry and Internal grants
The CS4HS (Special Topics) grant to introduce computing concepts to students in several El Paso area middle schools in El Paso, using a game-based learning platform named Sol y Agua.
- We offered the workshop in collaboration with Region 19 in Spring 2019.
Support from the Mike Loya Center for Innovation and Commerce (MLCIC) for investigating border health information exchange (BHIX) in Fall 2018.
