“Omar is an excellent researcher with deep and broad technical skills, combined with a deep commitment to his tasks. Specifically, its worth highlighting his skills in the area of Machine learning, he has a good arsenal of techniques and algorithms to apply to any given problem. He had significant contributions during his internship at Intel Labs, and the output from his work had a positive impact on the project.”
About
At Twitter, I Implemented Large Vision-Language Models from text and images and align…
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Education
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Utah State University
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Activities and Societies: Vice-president of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) chapter at USU, Member of the Executive Board of PrimerosPuestos.
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Activities and Societies: Peruvian Computing Society
Four research papers in refereed conferences while being undergrad.
Publications
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Supporting Data Aspects in Pig Latin
Research paper accepted in AOSD ‘13: 12th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development
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What to Reuse?: A Probabilistic Model to Transfer User Annotations in a Surveillance Video
CES 2013
Courses
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Convolutional Neural Networks
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Honors & Awards
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Best Research Poster in the 2013 ACM Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
ACM, IEEE, Coalition to Diversify Computing, and Computing Research Association (CRA)
One of the best research poster for my work on cross-domain recommendation over large amount of multimedia data. The work is: "Automatic Detection of Dangerous Scenes in Video Data over a Common Latent Space"
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Google Scholarship for the Society of Hispanics and Professional Engineers (SHPE)
Google
Scholarship for 6 people out of 200 candidates to attend to the 2012 SHPE national conference in Fort Worth, Texas
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Best Research Poster in the 2012 NSF Workshop for Underrepresented Senior Graduate Students at Georgia Tech
Coalition to Diversify Computing
Best graduate poster award for my work that models the interactions of vehicle activities in a video as topic distributions in a time window.
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Three information disclosures and one patent filed from Summer internships with IBM Research and Intel Labs
IBM Research and Intel labs
Topics:
-- content protection for multimedia data (healthcare and engineering documents)
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Semifinalist of the Intel Challenge 2011 and Finalist of Wayra-Peru 2011 (20 out of 1200 projects)
Intel and Telefonica
We found PrimerosPuestos as a startup that exploits a crowdsourcing algorithm to automatically discover talented undergrads in Latin America to give them opportunities to get higher education in the US.
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IBM Innovation Award on Scalable Data Analytics
IBM Research
Innovation award valued in $20,000 that supports my PhD work on detecting accidents on congested roads recorded with traffic video cameras. We modeled vehicle activities with hierarchical topic models and learned their co-occurrence relationships to express them as activity rules that describe the current scene in real-time
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Innovation Award in Large Scale Analytics
IBM Research
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Academic Scholarships
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International Conference on Very Large Data Bases VLDB (Seattle), Society of Hispanics Professional Engineers (Anaheim), Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference (San Francisco), NSF Academic Workshop for Senior Doctoral Students (Los Angeles), School on Parallel Programming at UC Berkeley (Berkeley)
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Spanish
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Portuguese
Professional working proficiency
Organizations
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ACM
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