Email: nayda.santiago@ece.uprm.edu

Nayda G. Santiago is professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) where she teaches the Capstone Course in Computer Engineering. Since 2006 she is member of the Computing Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI) where she is a trainer to undergraduate researchers using the Affinity Research Group (ARG) Model and is an ARG hub leader training faculty to adopt the ARG model. In 2014 and 2016 she directed the 1st and 2nd Caribbean Celebration of Women in Computing, respectively. These are part of the ACM-W celebrations project. Dr. Santiago is NCWIT academic alliance member, member of Henaac, former board member and lifetime member of SACNAS, member of the CIAPR, senior member of the IEEE, member of the ACM, and senior member of the Latinas in Computing (LiC) organization. Dr. Santiago has been awarded 2017 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award, 2008 Henaac Educator Award, 2008 Distinguished Computer Engineer of the CIAPR, and UPRM Distinguished Alumni award. Dr. Santiago is a Licensed Engineer in Puerto Rico.

Email: eliana.valenzuela@upr.edu

Eliana Valenzuela-Andrade holds a doctoral degree in Computing, Information Sciences and Engineering, a M.E. in Management Systems from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus and a BS in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia. She has nearly fifteen of teaching experience and ten of research experience. The research areas of Dr. Valenzuela-Andrade are Database Management System, Educational Robotics, Swarm Robotics Outreach for STEM careers, among others. In the past eight years, she has been interested in innovative tools to motivate young people to explore CS topics before and during college and encourage them to continue a career in this discipline. She is part of Latinas in Computing, FemProf, and CAHSI.

Email: ZJordan@pupr.edu

Faculty, researcher and entrepreneur.

Dr. Jordan holds a PhD in Human Computer Interaction. She teaches programming, HCI, and cybersecurity courses at the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, a Hispanic Serving Institution. Dr. Jordan has extensive experience in promoting undergraduate research as a way to increase persistence and a sense of self-efficacy. She founded GuardDV, Inc. in 2018, a company devoted to create solutions for increasing the safety of survivors of domestic violence. Her research in this area has been recognized with multiple awards.

Dr. Jordan has published research on social media and technology for survivors of domestic violence, and collaborated in the creation of embodied social presence theory. She has worked on brain computer interfaces and her research agenda includes computing education, accessibility, cybersecurity, and the technology gap.

Email: sylmarie.davila@gmail.com

Sylmarie Davila obtained her B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) in 2015. While working toward her undergraduate degree, Sylmarie participated in FemProf and CASHI activities that motivated her to participate in various research internship opportunities. She is currently doing her PhD at Michigan State University where she works on hardware efficient biomedical signal processing and machine learning algorithms for the next generation of brain machine interfaces.

Email: gperera@neiu.edu

Graciela Perera is an Associate Professor at Northeastern Illinois University in the Computer Science Department. She serves as Board Member of the Hispanic Innovation Center Foundation and in CompTIA’s Executive Council for Advancing Diversity in Technology Community. Her research interests are network security, distributed systems, and computer networks. She is the leader of the Northeast Hub of the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions.

Email: kanemoto.k@mccd.edu

Kathy Kanemoto has been teaching Computer Science at Merced College since 2009, and is currently also the Chair of Computer Science at Merced College.  She has instructed and mentored many students during that time and implemented the Computer Science Associate Transfer degree as well as all of the classes that are a part of this degree.  She is also into researching new ways of teaching Computer Science and building Computational Science pathways for students to achieve their CS degrees and become successful Computer Scientists.  Here is a link to her website that explains more on these pathways:http://cspathways.us/

Email: carmen.bellido@upr.edu

Carmen Bellido is an education professor working in the Teacher Preparation Program (TPP) at the University of PR Mayaguez since the year 2000. She is UPRM Center for Professional Enrichment coordinator and UPRM Resource Center for Education Research and Services Center (CRUISE) Coordinator. Dr. Bellido extensive experience using evaluation to improve learning strategies from primary to graduate school.

Email: patricia.ordonez@upr.edu

Dr. Ordonez is Associate Professor in the Computer Science faculty at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She obtained her PhD in CS in 2012 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her research interests are in applying machine learning, data mining, and visualization to multivariate time series analysis, specifically to large repositories of clinical data. She is the founder of the Symposium of Health Informatics for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Email: mchaparr@harris.com

Marines Chaparro is a Senior Software Engineer at Harris Corporation. Her academic preparation includes a B.S. and a M.Eng. in Computer Engineering, both from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. She has over 7 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer supporting several Geospatial Research Projects, including Spatial Systems, Search and Retrieval Systems, Mission Awareness, Emergency Management, Weather Systems, among others. She supports the company’s recruiting efforts as a technical recruiting strategist.

Originally from Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. She is a fourth year electrical engineering student at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez. She is is interested in specializing in control systems. Currently involved in undergraduate research involving an autonomous boat. During the summer of 2016, Larissa had the opportunity to participate in an REU at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This experience has opened many doors for future work all round the United States and Puerto Rico.

Originally from Utuado, Puerto Rico. Currently in her fifth year. She studies Electrical Engineering and is interested in control systems and project management. At the moment she is the Software Team Lead of RUMarino, the first Autonomous Underwater Vehicle in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Karinne has learned many technical and management skills while in Rumarino and was able to implement this knowledge in her professional experience during the fall of 2018.

Originally from Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Currently studying Software Engineering in his fifth year, interested in project management and software architecture. He has worked on various projects from web design to data mining and analysis systems. Always willing to help.