Carlos R. Rivero
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, GCCIS, RIT
102 Lomb Memorial Dr. Rochester, NY 14623-5608
Office: GOL-3615
Phone: +1.585.475.2979
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My research interests are related to graph theory and its applications to knowledge graphs, graph databases, and computer-aided program comprehension. I have published my results in major conferences and journals, such as CIKM, TheWebConf, ICDE, KBS, KAIS, and TKDE. Full list: DBLP, Google Scholar.
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Brief bio
I got my PhD from the University of Seville, Spain in 2012. My advisors were Prof. David Ruiz and Prof. Rafael Corchuelo. During my PhD, I visited Prof. Alberto Pan at the University of A Coruña, Spain, Dr. Paolo Papotti at Roma Tre University, Italy, and Prof. Christian Bizer at Free University of Berlin, Germany. From 2013 to 2015, I worked as a postdoc at the University of Idaho, USA, collaborating with Prof. Hasan Jamil and Prof. H.V. Jagadish.
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Students
PhD students:
- Narayanan Asuri Krishnan, RIT, USA
- Md Towhidul Chowdhury (Naveen Sharma is the main advisor), RIT, USA
Graduate, theses:
- Bhaskar Krishna Gangadhar, 2023, RIT, USA
- Maheen Riaz Contractor (first job: Microsoft), 2022, RIT, USA
- Narayanan Asuri Krishnan, Aishwarya Rao, 2021, RIT, USA
- Iti Bansal (first job: researcher at UIUC), 2020, RIT, USA
- Wilberto Z. Nunez, 2018, RIT, USA
Graduate, capstone projects/independent studies/others (selected):
- Gabriella Wolf, 2022, RIT
- Yuying Mao, 2021, RIT
- Pranshu Bheda, Eric Hartman, Mayur Jawalkar (first job: Amazon), Pawa Shetty, Sam Snyder, Sudhanshu Tiwari, 2020, RIT
- Komal Bhavsar, Corie Both, Gourang Patil, 2019, RIT
- Hema Bahirwani (first job: Visa), Harnisha Gevaria (first job: Amazon), Hiteshi Shah, Shweta Yakkali (first job: Cloudera), 2018, RIT
- Manasi S. Bharde (first job: IBM), Lakhan D. Bhojwani (first job: Amazon), Kanth Dayanand (first job: Intuit), Krish Godiawala (first job: Amazon), Raj K. R. Korpally (first job: Amazon), Akshata Patil (first job: Microsoft), 2017, RIT
- Ankit Bhankharia (first job: Amazon), Pranav Dadlani (first job: Visa), Ishan Gulhane (first job: IBM), Tobin Pereira (first job: Microsoft), Vishwas Tantry (first job: Cisco Systems), 2016, RIT
- Yogesh Jagadeesan, 2015 (co-advisor: Peizhao Hu) (first job: Microsoft), 2015, RIT
Undergraduate (selected):
- Jodie Miu (first job: Amazon), Siddhartha Nutulapati (first job: Amplify), 2018, RIT
- Andrew Carpenter (first job: Amazon), 2017, RIT
- Meridangela Gutierrez Jhong (first job: Accenture), 2016, RIT
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Broader impacts
Research experiences for undergraduate and graduate students. Mentoring is the most important component of every teacher-scholar. I have advised several independent studies of undergraduate students who were interested in having their first research experience. I usually attract these students by introducing research-related topics in my undergraduate courses. I have also advised several master capstone projects, some of them led to workshop and main-conference publications. I have advised female and Hispanic students. Several of my students have got first-job positions at Amazon, IBM, or Microsoft.
K-12 outreach. I am applying our research in program comprehension to deliver personalized student feedback in programming courses. I am collaborating with Jamie Fagan@Webster Thomas High School and Sage Miller@Webster Schroeder High School with a special interest in Advanced Placement Computer Science (APCS). I have also participated in outreach programs at RIT, such as Girls Who Code visits, or College & Careers.
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Teaching
At RIT:
- Advanced Database Skills: Graph Databases (CSCI 723), MS Colloquium (CSCI 788), 2022-2023
- Introduction to Big Data (CSCI 620), Advanced Database Skills: Graph Databases (CSCI 723), 2021-2022
- Introduction to Big Data (CSCI 620), Advanced Database Skills: Graph Databases (CSCI 723), 2020-2021
- Introduction to Big Data (CSCI 620), Advanced Database Skills: Graph Databases (CSCI 723), 2019-2020
- Introduction to Big Data (CSCI 620), Graph Databases (CSCI 729), 2018-2019
- Principles of Data Management (CSCI 320), Xtreme Theory (CSCI 464), Graph Databases (CSCI 729), 2017-2018
- Graph Databases (CSCI 729), 2016-2017
- Principles of Data Management (CSCI 320), 2016-2017
- Principles of Data Management (CSCI 320) (Two sections), 2015-2016
At the University of Idaho:
- Database Management System Design (CS 460/560), 2013-2014
- Database Systems (CS 360), 2014-2015
At the University of Seville:
- Service-Oriented Systems, 2012-2013. 3rd year
- Design and Testing (taught in English), 2012-2013. 3rd year
- Software Engineering II, 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013. 4th year
- Entrepreneurship and Software Engineering, 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013. 5th year
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Service
Program committees (selected):
- ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM): 2023
- The Web Conference (TheWebConf): 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
- ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD): 2022
- SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM): 2022
- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC): 2021, 2022
- International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC): 2017, 2018
- Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC): 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE): 2017
- International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- International Workshop on Modeling and Management of Big Data (MoBiD) (co-located with International Conference on Conceptual Modeling): 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
- International Workshop on Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition (CoMoRea) (co-located with IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications): 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Journal reviews (selected):
- 2022 - Communications of the ACM
- 2021 - Knowledge-Based Systems
- 2021 - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems
- 2019 - Future Generation Computing Systems
- 2019 - Knowledge-Based Systems
- 2018 - IEEE Access
- 2017 - Future Generation Computing Systems
- 2017 - Information Systems Frontiers
- 2015 - Journal of Systems and Software
- 2014 - ACM Transactions on Database Systems
- 2013 - ACM Transactions On Web
At RIT:
- Tenure-track hiring and K-12 committees, Computer Science, 2016-2022
- Tenure-track hiring and Web committees, Computer Science, 2015-2016
- PhD admission committee, GCCIS, 2018-2019
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