Eastern New Mexico University

(In order of the time joining our lab)

  • David Schmith. Undergraduate Student. Spring, Fall 2024. Project: Water Depth Level Forecasting. *My student won 2nd place for Undergraduate Research Poster at the New Mexico Research Symposium 2024.
  • Devon Alonzo. Fall 2024. Project: Air quality forecasting in New Mexico *My student received the Undergraduate Research Scholarship from NM Alliance for Minority Participation (Fall 2024)
  • Stephen Washington. Undergraduate Student. Fall 2024. Project: Exploring the Use of Neural Networks to Enhance Undergraduate Student Retention and Completion Rates at ENMU - Portales.
  • Drey Smith. Undergraduate Student. Spring 2023. Project: Content-based SciFi novels recommender system.
  • Caleb Parten. Undergraduate Student. Spring 2024, Summer 2023. Projects: (i)Analysis of Java Code Formatting Errors for Improving Student Learning, (ii) Deep Learning Models for Natural Language Processing problems.
    *My student received an Scholarship from NMSU REU CS program.
  • Jacqueline Chavez.} Undergraduate Student. Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024. Projects: (i) Exploratory Data Analysis on Breast Cancer Datasets, (ii) Protecting Smart Grids with Machine Learning, (iii) Using Sentiment Analyzers to Predict Patien Drug Reviews.
    *My student received the Undergraduate Research Scholarship from NM Alliance for Minority Participation (2023, 2024) and an award from EPSCoR NMAMP+ (2023).
    Our work first place in the 2023 and 2024 ENMU SRCC
  • Larry Maes. Undergraduate Student. Fall 2022. Project: Machine Learning Algorithms for Identifying the Major Diabetes Risk Factors.
    *My student received a Scholarship from EpSCOR
  • Stephen Villanueva. Undergraduate Student. Summer/Fall 2022, Spring 2023. Projects: (i) Understanding Science Fiction: A topic modeling approach, (ii) Analyzing the Golden Age of Science Fiction: A Topic Modeling Approach, (iii) Optimizing Document Clustering in NLP with Embedding and Cluster Methods.
    *My student received the Undergraduate Research Scholarship from NM Alliance for Minority Participation and one from EpSCOR.
    Our work won second place in the 2022 NM Research Symposium and first place in the 2023 ENMU SRCC
  • Thomas Wight. Undergraduate student. Spring 2022. Outcome: Poster in 2022 ENMU Student Research and Creativity Conference (SRCC).
    *My student received the Undergraduate Research Scholarship from NM Alliance for Minority Participation
  • Angel Alamilla. Undergraduate student. Spring 2022 - Fall 2023. Thesis Co-director. Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
  • Naomi Rohrbaugh. Undergraduate student. Summer 2021. Outcome: project report for the NMSU REU program.
    *My student received the NMSU REU scholarship and our work was accepted at the 2022/2023 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM.

New Mexico State University

  • Jiefei Liu. Undergraduate student. Spring 2020. Outcome: undergraduate senior Thesis.
  • Omar Navarro. Undergraduate student. Fall 2019. Outcome: poster presented.
  • Ramin Zahedi. Master’s student. Fall 2019. Outcome: paper published.
  • Panika Valecha. Master’s student. Fall 2018. Outcome: Masters’ Project report.
  • Amy Worth. Undergraduate student. Summer 2018. Outcome: project report for the REU program.
  • Tangee Beverly. Undergraduate student. Summer 2018. Outcome: project report for the REU program.
  • Jacob Valdez. Master’s student. Spring 2018. Outcome: Masters’ Project report.