About Me:
I have a Ph. D. in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. I worked under William M. Gray, well known for starting the predictions about the activity of forthcoming hurricane seasons. I used to teach at the Physics Dept. of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and directed the Programa de Mantienimiento Ambiental.
In 1985 I left academia to work in private industry. I am still very interested in Puerto Rico, its scientific efforts and in the science vs. pseudoscience debate. I am one of the authors of the book "Ciencia, pseudociencia y educación", Ediciones Callejón, 2004, along with professors Daniel Altschuler and Joaquín Medín. At present I work on the application of computational techniques called evolutionary computation to different problems. These techniques apply the principles of Darwinian evolution to the search of solutions to complex problems in fields such as noise reduction in images, combustion optimization, symbolic regression, discrimination of buried unexploded ordnance and many other applications.