Professor

Department: Computer Science

Dr. Fuentes is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), with additional affiliations in Bioinformatics and Computational Science. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 1997, his M.S. in Computer Science from UTEP in 1991, and his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua in Mexico in 1989.

He is the director of the Vision and Learning Laboratory (VLL) at UTEP. His primary research goal is to exploit the potential of machine learning to offer solutions to practical problems for which manual solutions are too difficult to develop. Following this application-oriented philosophy, the VLL has produced results that span a wide area of domains, including Astronomy (galaxy classification, analysis of interacting galaxies), Geology (volcanic eruption prediction, analysis of seismic waves), Neuroscience (image matching and registration), Solar Physics (x-ray and magnetometer data analyses), Psychology (emotion recognition), Environmental science (change modeling from hyperspectral satellite images).

Dr. Fuentes has over 140 referred publications and has supervised 17 Ph.D. dissertations and 30 M.S. theses. His research has been funded by NSF, NIH, and DARPA, among others.

Other Affiliations: Bioinformatics, Computational Science

Keywords of Expertise: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision