Professor · Researcher · Mentor
Research & Teaching
Peer-reviewed research spanning artificial immune systems, data quality, anomaly detection, and cultural anthropology. Teaching at the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate levels at four universities since 2017.
Academic Appointments
Teaching Philosophy
Publications & Presentations
Where I Teach
Ordered by seniority of role and tenure. All positions are remote and ongoing.
Assistant Professor
May 2021 – Present · Doctoral level
Doctoral courses in Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics. Mentors doctoral candidates through research design, methodology, and dissertation development. Connects academic research with real-world analytics and enterprise data frameworks.
Professor (promoted from Adjunct)
January 2017 – Present · Graduate level
Graduate-level Relational Databases, Distributed Database Management Systems, and Compiler Theory. Develops curriculum and assessments for advanced database architecture and distributed systems.
Adjunct Faculty
April 2022 – Present · Graduate level
Computer Science courses including Programming, Software Engineering, and AI. Develops and refines new courses ensuring alignment with industry standards and modern cloud technologies.
Adjunct Faculty
May 2024 – Present · Graduate & Undergraduate
Advanced Analytics and AI Product Design. Develops complete courses from scratch including hands-on labs, case studies, and applied technical content.
Why Architecture Matters
Systems Thinking First
Every course begins with the why. Students learn to reason about trade-offs — architectural, computational, and organizational — before they write a single line of code.
Industry-Grounded
Real architectures, real failures, real wins. Case studies drawn from enterprise projects and peer-reviewed research — not examples that age within a semester.
Mentor-Led
Dissertation guidance, career coaching, and sustained engagement beyond the syllabus. The relationship does not end when the semester does.
Peer-Reviewed Work
2025
ACM · CAIBDA '25 · June 15, 2025
Immune-inspired, statistically-validated anomaly detection for data quality assurance in large-scale data engineering
Novel immune-inspired anomaly detection algorithm grounded in the negative selection algorithm (NSA) with statistical validation. Processes 6 million rows in under 2 seconds. Outperforms Isolation Forest, LOF, DBSCAN, and autoencoders on structural (100%), date (75.08%), and value-based anomalies (49.16%). Proceedings of the 2025 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Algorithms. ACM.
2016
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting · San Francisco
Cultural Effects of Forced Displacement Among the Yukpa of Maracaibo, Venezuela
Ethnographic research examining cultural disruption caused by the involuntary displacement of the Yukpa indigenous people from the Sierra de Perija to the city of Maracaibo.
2015
Invited Speaker · Corporación Universitaria Americana · Barranquilla, Colombia
Sistemas Inmunitarios Artificiales: Teoría Básica y Aplicaciones
Invited lecture on Artificial Immune Systems — biomimetic principles, clonal selection, immune network theories, and computational applications for complex problem-solving.
2015
MS Dissertation · University of South Africa (UNISA) · Pretoria
An Exploratory Study of Forced Displacement and Some Cultural Consequences among the Yukpa of Maracaibo, Venezuela
Ethnographic study examining cultural disruption, current needs, and providing a biographical profile of the Yukpa settled in Maracaibo with policy recommendations.
2006
CSURF '06 · Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum
Indians, Blacks, Heroes, and the Cult of Maria Lionza
Anthropological analysis of Venezuelan syncretic religious traditions and the cultural construction of identity through devotional practice.
2006
International Conference on Caribbean Studies · University of Texas Pan American
The Aesthetic of the Chimbángueles of San Benito
Anthropological and artistic analysis of the Chimbángueles drums used by Afro-Venezuelan communities. Examines psychological, religious, social, and educational dimensions of the tradition honoring San Benito de Palermo.
2005
PhD Thesis · Nova Southeastern University · Fort Lauderdale, FL
A Self-Adaptive Evolutionary Negative Selection Approach for Anomaly Detection
Doctoral dissertation developing SANSAD — a self-adaptive evolutionary negative selection algorithm inspired by the thymic negative selection process in natural immune systems.
2004
1st International Symposium on Bio-Inspired Computing · Johor, Malaysia
A convergence analysis of a self-adaptive evolutionary negative selection algorithm
Formal convergence analysis of SANSAD — establishing theoretical properties of the self-adaptive evolutionary negative selection approach for anomaly detection in complex systems.
2004
Congress on Evolutionary Computation · Portland, Oregon
A self-adaptive negative selection approach for anomaly detection
Early presentation of the negative selection framework establishing the theoretical foundation for subsequent doctoral research and the 2025 ACM publication.