Name: Bienvenido Velez-Rivera Title: PI / Assistant Professor ECE Field of Interest: Distributed Systems, Networks of Workstations, Information Discovery and Retrieval Office: T-212 Telephone: (787)832-4040 ext. 3023 Email: bvelez@acm.org Web site: http://www.ece.uprm.edu/~bvelez Bio: Bienvenido Vélez-Rivera is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999), his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley (1988) and his B.A. in Computer Science from Cornell University (1986). During his doctoral work, he designed algorithms for assisting users of information retrieval systems fulfill their information needs effectively. Hi continues to conduct research in Multi-lingual Information Retrieval Systems as well as in Distributed Computing Systems and Multimedia Systems. Dr. Vélez-Rivera is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.

Name: Manuel Rodríguez-Martínez Title: Co-Pi / Assistant Professor ECE Field of Interest: Database Management Systems, Database Middleware Technology, WWW and Databases, Mobile Computing and Networking Office: T-212 Telephone: (787)832-4040 ext. 3023 Email: manuelr@acm.org Web site: http://www.ece.uprm.edu/~manuel Bio: Dr. Manuel Rodriguez-Martinez received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park (2001). He also holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park (1996) and a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. His research interests focus on Database Middleware Systems, Peer-to-Peer Database Architectures, Web-based Information Systems, and applications for Mobile Environments. He serves as Co-Principal Investigator for project “Intelligent Power Routers for Distributed Coordination in Electric Energy Processing Networks”, an NSF/ONR funded initiative. He has published papers on prestigious international forums such as ACM SIGMOD, EDBT and IASTED. He has served as reviewer for research papers for several international conferences such as VLDB, ACM SIGMOD and IEEE ICDE. In addition, he has served as panelist for reviewing NSF SBIR proposals. He is a member of the ACM society and the SIGMOD special interest group.

Name: Pedro I. Rivera-Vega Title: Co-PI / Professor ECE Field of Interest: Computer Science, Parallel and Distributor Processing   Office: T-213 Telephone: (787)832-4040 ext. 2191 Email: pirvos@ece.uprm.edu Web site: http://www.ece.uprm.edu/~pirvos Bio: Received his Ph.D. in Computer Science (1990) from the Department of Computer and Information Science of the College of Engineering at the University of Florida. He obtained his B.S. in Mathematics (1977) and M.S. in Applied Mathematics (1980), both from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras. While in pursuing graduate studies he was awarded the NSF Graduate Fellowship (1978-1980) and the NASA Graduate Fellowship (1988-1889). He has been faculty at the University of Puerto Rico since 1980. In 1991, he joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Rio Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, where he was mostly dedicated to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics. In particular, he has taught courses in the areas of Analysis of Algorithms, Data Structures, Data Bases, Operating Systems, and Probability and Statistics. He has seven publications in international peer reviewed journals and conferences, and has been Co-PI in two infrastructure grants received from NSF while in Rio Piedras. Since August 2001, he has been a faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. His research interests are in the areas of algorithms, distributed and parallel computing, and databases. He has served as referee of research articles submitted to IEEE Transactions on Comuters, 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IASTED, and Parallel Processing Letters, as well as for several local conferences in Puerto Rico. He has also been referee and panel member for several programs in CISE at NSF. He is member of the ACM and IEEE.

Name: Rafael Fernandez-Sein Title: Co-PI / Professor ECE / Associate Director R & D Center Field of Interest: Wireless communications, radar, product design and development Office: S-212 Telephone: (787)832-4040 ext. 2263 Email: rafaelf@ece.uprm.edu Web site: Bio:

Name: Walter Diaz Title: Co-PI / Assistant Professor CISO Field of Interest: Political Sciences   Office: CH-336 Telephone: (787)832-4040 ext. 3355 Email: Web site: Bio:

Name: Mario Nuñez-Molina Title: Co-PI / Professor CISO Field of Interest: Psychology, Learning Technologies   Office: CH-217 Telephone: (787)832-4040 ext. 3645 Email: egov@ceci.uprm.edu Web site: http://www.gobiernodigital.net/ Bio:

Name: Hillary Caituiro-Monge Title: Research Assistant / Ph.D. Student CISE Field of Interest: Databases Management Systems, Distributed Systems Email: hcaituiro@ieee.org Web site: http://admg.ece.uprm.edu/~hcaituiro/

Name: Jairo E. Valiente-Fernandez Title: Research Assistant / Ph.D. Student CISE Field of Interest: Information Discovery and Retrieval, Databases Management Systems, Parallel and Distributed Computing Email: Web site: http://admg.ece.uprm.edu/~jvaliente/www/

Name: Rene Badia Title: Research Assistant / M.S. Student ECE Field of Interest:   Email: Web site: http://admg.ece.uprm.edu/~rbadia/

Name: Armando Marin Title: Research Assistant / B.S. Student ECE Field of Interest:   Email: Web site: http://admg.ece.uprm.edu/~pcmaster/

Name: Lissette Toledo Title: Research Assistant / B.S. Student ECE Field of Interest:   Email: Web site: http://admg.ece.uprm.edu/~ltoledo/

Name: Carmen V. Santiago-Rodriguez Title: Project Assistant / MBA Email: carmenv@ece.uprm.edu Phone: 1-787-834-7620 ext. 2294/2263 Fax: 1-787-831-3244 Postal: P.O. Box 9042,  Mayagüez, PR 00681-9042 Physical: R & D Center, Road 108 km. 1.0 Miradero,  Mayagüez, PR 00680