Academic Background

• Ph.D. Computer Science (2024). University of California, Riverside, CA.
  • Focus areas: Big spatial data, distributed spatial data structures and parallel algorithms for movement patterns discovery.
  • Thesis: Scaling Spatial Overlay Operations and Flock Pattern Discovery (under supervision of Prof. Vassilis Tsotras.
    
    
• M.Sc. Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (2011). University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands.
  • Focus areas: Geo-informatics and Spatial Data Mining.
  • Thesis: Mining moving flock patterns in large spatio-temporal datasets using a frequent pattern mining approach.
    
    
• Systems Engineering (2007). Universidad de Nariño, Pasto, Colombia.
  • Focus areas: Databases and Data Mining
  • Thesis: TariyKDD: A data mining tool loosely coupled with a DBMS.