Computer Science Engineer

Jaime J. D vila

Hampshire College, School of Cognitive Science

Amherst, MA 01002

Phone: 413-***-****

Email: *******@*********.*** WWW: http://hampshire.edu/jdavila

EDUCATION

****-**** **.* ** Computer Science

Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, New York, New York

1983- 1988 Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

University of Puerto Rico, Mayag ez Campus, Mayag ez, P.R.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor of Computer Science

1999-

present Hampshire College, School of Cognitive Science, Amherst, MA

2007-2012 Special Presidential Assistant for Diversity and Multicultural Education

Hampshire College, Amherst MA

Interim Associate Dean of Multicultural Education

Spring 2007

Hampshire College, Amherst MA.

Summer Visiting Instructor

2001 Brandeis University School of Continuing Studies, Waltham, MA

Teaching two graduate sections of a course in Perl Programming, both at the Brandeis campus

and at an EMC site.

Substitute Instructor

Sept 1997-

May 1998 City College of New York, Department of Computer Science, New York, NY

Teaching courses in programming languages and data structure

Graduate Fellow

Sept 1993-

May 1997 Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, New York, NY

Performing installation, maintenance, and training of a Unix-based research computer laboratory.

Process Support Engineer

1988-1991

Abbott Chemicals Inc., Barceloneta, P.R.

Designing, implementing, testing, giving maintenance, and training personnel in the use of

computerized production lines.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Evolution of NN for the Design of Virtual Agents under Limited Resources Constraints

Proceedings of the 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.

The Digital Divide

Chapter in The Handbook of Information Security, published by John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

The Digital Divide

Chapter in The Internet Encyclopedia, published by John Wiley & Sons, 2004.

Evolution of Hierarchical Neural Networks for Time-dependent Cognitive Processes:

Key Recognition for Musical Compositions

Proceeding of the 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation.

Disruption Analysis for Neural Network Topology Evolution Systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 2002.

Genetic evolution of neural networks that remember

Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Neural Networks, 2002.

Genetic Algorithms and the Evolution of Neural Networks for Language Processing

CELE-Twente Workshop on Language Technology, 2000.

Jaime J. D vila (page 2)

A New Metric for Evaluating Genetic Optimization of Neural Networks.

Proceedings of the First IEEE Symposium on Combinations of Evolutionary Computation and Neural

Networks, 2000.

Genetic Evolution of Sensors and Topology for a Neurally Controlled Robot.

Workshop Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2000)

Exploring the Relationship Between Neural Network Topology and Optimal Training Set

by Means of Genetic Algorithms.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, 1999

Genetic Optimization of NN Topologies for the Task of Natural Language Processing.

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1999

PRESENTATIONS

2012 Intergroup Dialogues and Inclusive Campus Climates: A Model for Faculty and Staff

Development

Presented at the 2012 National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education

(NCORE)

2012 Collaborating for Change through Action and Research: Lessons Learned during the

Five College IGD Initiative

Presented at the Social Justice in Education Forum, UMass Amherst

2000 Why do we need to close the digital divide?

Presented at the 2000 Annual meeting of the Puerto Rican Studies Association.

1998 Optimizing initial neural network configurations for the task of natural language

processing.

Presented at the 1998 AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium, Madison Wisconsin. Also presented as a

poster at the AAAI Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

1998 Neural network pruning and topology for natural language processing.

Presented as a poster at the 11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 1998.

PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOPS

Co-organizer, Five Colleges Faculty Seminar on Dialogic Practices in the Classroom

AY 2012 Organizing and facilitating faculty conversations on ways to incorporate dialogic techniques into

classroom practices.

Organizer, LADO Meeting

2012

Organized and hosted the Fall 2012 Meeting of the Liberal Arts Diversity Officers (LADO)

2009,2010 Co-Organizer, Summer Intergroup Dialogue Training Institute

Organizing three-day-long institute that trained 120 college employees on facilitating dialogues on

race and ethnicity, spirituality, gender, and rank and class.

2008 Trainee, Qualifying Seminar for Administration and interpretation of Intercultural

Development Inventory

Intercultural Communication Institute, Minneapolis, MN

STEMTEC Fellow

2002

NSF funded project investigating the scholarship and practice of teaching.

Participant, Case Studies in Science Summer Workshop

2002

Investigating Ways to Design and Deploy Student centered Courses.

Participant, SENCER Summer Institute

2001, 2002

NSF funded institute on science education for new civic engagements and responsibilities.

REVIEWING

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

Fall 2012 Peer review of article submission.

Summer Intelligent System Design and Applications

Peer review of papers for Artificial Intelligence Conference.

2006

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CCSCE 2006

Spring 2006 Peer review of papers for the Annual Meeting of the Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges,

Eastern Conference.

September National Science Foundation Panel

2005 Reviewing Grant Proposals to the Information and Intelligent Systems Text Program.

National Science Foundation Panel

July 2005 Reviewing Grant Proposals to the Information and Intelligent Systems Advance Learning

Technologies Program.

BioSystems Journal.

April 2005

Peer Review of Paper.

The Internet Encyclopedia.

2003

Peer review of two chapter submissions.

AWARDS

Five Colleges/Mendenhall Fellowship

1998-1999

Awarded to minority doctoral candidates in the final stage of completing their degrees.

Stanton Heiskell Center Fellow

1994-1998 Researching ways in which technology can be used to enhance education of at-risk high school

students.

Belle Zeller Fellow

1996

Annual recognition of student involvement in community service.

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Board of Trustees, The Common School

2008-2009

An Innovative, Child-Centered School for Children Ages 3-12

Amherst, MA

2000-2005

Board Member, Latino Scholarship Association

Providing college scholarships to deserving students of color in the Pioneer Valley.

Student Member, Computer Science Department Executive Committee, Graduate

1995-1998

School and University Center, CUNY.

DSC (Doctoral Student Council) member

1995-1997

The DSC is the student Government Body of CUNY's Graduate Center.

Board Member, Center for Puerto Rican Studies Community Advisory Board, Hunter

1995-1996

College, CUNY.

Boston New York AIDS ride

1995

Raising funds to support AIDS community groups serving New York City.

Coordinator, AELLA (Association of Latino and Latin American Student)

1993-1995

Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Graduate School and University Center

1994-1995 This committee was assembled by the President of the Graduate Center, and had a its mandate to

make recommendations that would guide all decision-making processes at the Graduate Center.

REFERENCES

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