Pablo Rivas Perea

Dr. Pablo Rivas is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Baylor University (formerly at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York). He worked in the industry for a decade as a software engineer before becoming an academic. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, ACM, and SIAM. He was formerly at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. He is a mentor for the LatinX in AI organization, an ally of women in technology, a deep learning evangelist, and a machine learning ethicist. He teaches machine learning and deep learning courses with applications in NLP and computer vision.

Dr. Rivas is a published author and all his papers are related to machine learning, computer vision, and machine learning ethics; he recently became a certified online instructor; and he is also a machine learning consultant of the New York State Cloud Computing and Analytics Center. Prof. Rivas prefers Vim over Emacs and spaces over tabs.