Guillermo Cabrera
Masters student graduate
| Email: | gcabrera cs.utexas.edu |
| Mailing address: | Department of Computer Science 1 University Station M/S C0500 Taylor Hall 2.124 Austin, TX 78712-0233 |
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About me
I am originally from the city of Queretaro in Mexico. I graduated in December 2010 from the masters program at the computer science department which is part of the school of natural sciences at the University of Texas Austin. I obtained my bachelors in science degree from the computer science department at the University of Texas - Pan American. At several instances during and prior to my undergraduate education I did some work with IBM both in Silicon Valley and Austin locations, where my work spanned across many levels, from application to kernel level development focusing on database systems. Recently, I was selected by the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum to participate in a research project at HP Labs in Bangalore, India, which focused on eye tracking and user profiling.
Main hobbies: Pranayama, social latin dancing, bullfighting, international travel, wine tastings.
Interests
Machine Learning ∩ information storage and retrieval
Research Projects
At HP Labs I worked under the supervision of Dr. Krishnan Ramanathan on the impact of including eye gaze data in the construction of user profiles, which are later used for recommendations to user. In particular, we explored the problem of finding relevant sections for web documents (text) by using eye gaze data; by accurately extracting those sections that the user read (showing attention and interest)and ignoring the sections that were skimmed, we could accurately create an index of keywords representing user interests around a particular topic. For instance, when looking at the Wikipedia page for "tiger", a user might quickly scan the long page and only read the paragraphs that describe "conservation efforts", thus, it is important to accurately detect this through a robust reading algorithm. This problem and that of interfacing with the eye tracking device were the main areas of focus on this project.
During fall 2008 I worked with Dr. Daniel Miranker on the assesment of the excluded middle idea mentioned in Yianilos’ result, “Excluded Middle Vantage Point Forests for Nearest Neighbor Search” (1999) in terms of the mobios system. This project concerns a parallel implementation of metric-space search methods and developing a forest of search tree instead of a single search tree. Each tree in this forest may be searched in parallel.
Relevant Work
- Comparing SVMs and TSVMs for Sentiment Analysis on Organized Crime (Available upon request). Collaborating with Dr. Jason Baldridge
- Report: Visualizing and Mapping Ontologies in Ultrawrap (PDF). Collaborated with Juan Sequeda
- Collaborative Bluetooth EduMANET mobile computing project using Android devices (HTML). Collaborated with Nabil Qamar and Gregg Orr
- E-voting using Mix Networks (PPT)
- Query Optimization for Stream Databases (PPT)
Coursework
Fall 2010
Spring 2010
- CS 395T- Semantic Web, Ontologies and the Cloud
- EE 382V - Mobile Computing
- MAN 337 - Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Teaching Assistant: CS 307 - Foundations of Computer Science
Fall 2009
- CS 395T - Introduction to Cognitive Science
- CS 398T - Supervised Teaching in Computer Science
Spring 2009
- CS 388L - Introduction to Mathematical Logic
- CS 386S - Network Protocol Security
- CS 372 - Introduction to Operating Systems
Fall 2008
- CS 395T - Modeling Biological Databases
- CS 386D - Database Systems
- CS 352 - Computer Systems Architecture
Random
- At the IBM Learning Center in Armonk, NY presenting our Extreme Blue project to Sam Palmisano (IBM President and CEO)
- Selected to participate at the 2010 Google GRAD CS Forum in Mountain View, CA