Academic Background

Ph.D. (C) Computer Science - 2024 University of California, Riverside, CA • Ph.D. research in big spatial data under direction of prof. Vassilis Tsotras (thesis: Scalable Spatial Operations and Pattern Detection Using Distributed Systems).

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).