Carlos R. Rivero
Assistant 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 computer-aided program comprehension, graph databases, and the Web of Data. I have published my results in major conferences and journals, such as CIKM, FSE, ICDE, KBS, JSS, TKDE, and WWW. 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:
- Angel Cambero, 2018-Current, RIT, USA
- Victor J. Marin, 2016-Current, RIT, USA
- Andrea Cimmino, 2014-Current (co-advisor: David Ruiz), University of Seville, Spain
Graduate, theses:
- Wilberto Z. Nunez, 2018, RIT, USA
Graduate, capstone projects/independent studies (selected):
- Hema Bahirwani (first job: Visa), Shweta Yakkali (first job: Cloudera), 2018, RIT, USA
- 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, USA
- 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, USA
- Yogesh Jagadeesan, 2015 (co-advisor: Peizhao Hu) (first job: Microsoft), 2015, RIT, USA
Undergraduate (selected):
- Siddhartha Nutulapati (first job: Amplify), 2018, RIT, USA
- Andrew Carpenter (first job: Amazon), 2017, RIT, USA
- Meridangela Gutierrez Jhong (first job: Accenture), 2016, RIT, USA
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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, USA:
- 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, USA:
- Database Management System Design (CS 460/560), 2013-2014
- Database Systems (CS 360), 2014-2015
At the University of Seville, Spain:
- 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):
- The Web Conference (WWW): 2018, 2019 (tracks Web Mining and Content Analysis and Semantics and Knowledge)
- International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC): 2017, 2018
- Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC): 2015-2018
- International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE): 2017
- International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE): 2016-2018
- International Workshop on Modeling and Management of Big Data (MoBiD) (co-located with International Conference on Conceptual Modeling): 2013-2017
- International Workshop on Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition (CoMoRea) (co-located with IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications): 2017-2019
Journal reviews (selected):
- 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, 2016-2018
- Tenure-track hiring and Web committees, Computer Science, 2015-2016
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