BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Wilson Rivera
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
Ph.D.
M.S.
B.S.
Computational Engineering
Computational Mathematics
Mathematics
Mississippi State University
University of Puerto Rico
Universidad del Valle, Colombia
2000
1994
1989
APPOINTMENTS
2000-Present: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of
Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus.
1996-2000: Research Assistant, NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Systems.
1994-1996: Instructor, Mathematics Department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus.
PUBLICATIONS
1. J. Yeckle and W. Rivera, “Mapping and characterization of applications in heterogeneous
distributed systems.” 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics,
2003.
2. W. Rivera, J. Zhu, and D. Huddleston, “An efficient parallel algorithm with application to
computational fluid dynamics,” Journal of Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 45: 165188, 2003.
3. W. Rivera, J. Zhu, and D. Huddleston, “An efficient parallel algorithm for solving unsteady
equations." Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Practice and Theory, P. Wilders, A. Ecer, J.
Periaux, N. Satofuka, and P. Fox Eds. 293 - 300, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2002.
4. W. Rivera, “Adaptivity Support for Computational Grid-Aware Clusters.” 6th World
Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2002.
5. W. Rivera, “Scalable parallel genetic algorithms,” Artificial Intelligence Review, 16(2): 153-168,
2001.
6. W. Rivera, “Stability analysis of numerical boundary conditions in domain decomposition
algorithms.” Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation, 137: 375-385, 2003.
7. W. Rivera, “Molecular configurations and Euclidean distance matrices,” Mathematical Physics,
AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, edited by V. Alexiades and G. Siopsis, American
Mathematical Society, Providence RI, and International Press, Cambridge MA, pp. 459-465,
1999.
8. W. Rivera and J. Zhu, “A scalable parallel domain decomposition algorithm for solving time
dependent partial differential equations,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Processing Technology and Applications, edited by H. R. Arabnia,
CSREA Press, Athens GA, pp. 240-246, 1999.
9. W. Rivera, “A genetic algorithm for solving the Euclidean distance matrices completion
problem,” in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, edited by J. Carroll,
H. Haddad, D. Oppenheim, B. Bryant, G.B. Lamont, pp. 286-290, 1999.
10. W. Rivera, “A genetic algorithm for circulant Euclidean distance matrices,” Journal of Applied
Mathematics and Computation, vol. 97, pp. 197-208, 1998.
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SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
1. Director of the Parallel and Distributed Computing Laboratory at UPRM.
2. Referee for the Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, the Journal of Parallel and
Distributed Computing Practices, and the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.
3. Chair of the International Workshop on Adaptive Grid Middleware to be held in conjunction with
the 12th International Conference in Parallel Architectures and Compiler Techniques, NewOrleans, Sep27-Oct. 2, 2003.
4. Chair of the UPRM Workhop on Parallel and Distributed Computing to be held in November 1011, 2003.
5. Voting member of the Gelato Strategy Council
6. List of Collaborators:
a. Dr. Ioana Banicescu, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Mississippi State
University
b. Dr. David Kaeli, Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
c. Dr. Jianping Zhu, Professor and Chair of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics
Department, University of Akron
d. Dr. David Deerfield, Pittsburg Supercomputing Center
e. Dr. Fernando Colon, Professor of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
f. Dr. Erik Goodman, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State
University
g. Dr. Jaime Seguel, Director PhD Program in CISE, UPRM
h. Dr. Domingo Rodriguez, Director PRECISE Project, UPRM
i. Dr. Angel Lopez, Professor of Physics, UPRM
j. Dr. Dorothy Bollman, Professor of Mathematics, UPRM
7. Graduate students under supervision:
a. Mr. Jaime Yeckle, PhD
b. Ms. Maria del Mar Alvarez, PhD
c. Mr. Freddy Perez, MS
d. Ms. Carmen Carvajal, MS
e. Mr. Wilfredo Lugo, MS
8. Graduate advisors:
a. Dr. Jianping Zhu, PhD Dissertation
b. Dr. Pablo Tarazaga, MS Thesis