Luis E. Ortiz

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
PO Box 9042
Mayaguez, PR 00681-9042

Office: T-212
Phone: (787) 832-4040 x3023
Fax: (787) 831-7564

Email: [first name initial][second name initial][last name] <em>at ece</em> followed by <em>.uprm</em> and finally <em>.edu</em>




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Research Interests

Artificial intelligence, machine learning; computational game theory and economics; graphical models; computational probability and statistics; computational biology; and computational finance. Applications to complex systems.


Biographical Information

I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (UPRM).

From September 2004 through December 2006, I held a Postdoctoral Lecturer faculty position at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

From January 2002 through August 2004, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Computer and Information Science of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, working with Professor Michael Kearns.

I completed my Ph.D. (2001; Conferred May 2002) and Sc.M. (1998) from the Department of Computer Science at Brown University. My advisor was Leslie Kaelbling, now at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

I obtained a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Technology (IT) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. My undergraduate advisor was Maria Gini.


Additional Experience

From October to December 2001, I was a consultant in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning at AT&T Labs-Research's Artificial Intelligence Principles group at Shannon Labs in Florham Park, NJ.

While attending the University of Minnesota, I worked as an Undergraduate TA for a programming course in C during the Fall quarter of 1994. I also served as both a voluntary and paid Tutor in Math, Sciences, and Computer Science for the Project Technology Power program for several quarters.

Under the supervision of University of Minnesota Professor Maria Gini, I also worked in the design and implementation of a strategy for our small robot (walleye) to compete in the Pick-up-the-Trash event of the IJCAI'95 Robotics Competition in Montreal, Canada. We placed third in that event. Click here to download a mpeg file of walleye in action.

Between 1992 and 1994, I worked as a programmer for IBM-Rochester as part of their Summer Pre-Professional Student Program.


Luis E. Ortiz