Frida Rosa Coaquira

Ph.D  Student

Mathematics Department

University of Puerto Rico

Mayaguez Campus

Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00680

 

E-mail: friconi@yahoo.com

Homepage: www.math.uprm.edu/~frida_cn

 

 

Personal Information

 Born in Cusco, Peru in 1978. Single

 

Education:

 

August 1995- July 2000           B. Sc. in Mathematics with a concentration in Statistics

                                                  Universidad Nacional San Antonio de Abad del Cuzco. Perú.

                                                  Undergraduate Thesis: “Applications of factorial analysis

                                               to  biomedical data”. Best student of her class  (12 students)

                                               and, second among all the students graduating  from the School

                                                   of Arts and Sciences.

 

August 2000-December 2002   M. S. in Statistics, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto

                                                   Rico

January 2003-present                Doctoral student  of the Computing and Information Sciences and

                                                  Engineering program, University of  Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.

August 2004                             Ph.D. candidate in the Computing and Information Sciences and

                                                  Engineering program, University of  Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.   

                                                  Dissertation Topic: “Efficient  Feature selection methods for high

                                                  dimensional data”. Advisor: Ph.D. Edgar Acuna (Leader of

                                                  CASTLE: Computing and Statistical Learning for Knowledge

                                                 Discovery

                                    

 

Teaching Experience:

January 2001- December 2001 Instructor of  Pre-Calculus. University of Puerto Rico at

                                                   Mayaguez

August 2003- present            Instructor of Numerical Analysis. University of Puerto Rico

                                              at Mayaguez

 

Courses and Computational Skills:

Undergraduate courses in Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics.

Statistics courses at the graduate level: Advanced Topics in Statistical Pattern Recognition, Applied Regression, Experimental Design, Sampling and Computational Statistics.

Computer Science course at the graduate level: Computing Foundations, Computer Architecture, Analysis of  Algorithms,  Signal processing, Artificial Intelligence.

 

All credits approved  towards the Ph.D. degree in Computing and information Sciences and Engineering.

 

Good knowledge of  MINITAB, SAS, S-PLUS, R, SPSS, MATLAB, Scheme, C++.

 

Honors:

1998                President of   undergraduate  class.

2000-2001         Fellowship from the Mathematics Department of the University of  Puerto

                         Rico

2001                            Assisted Dr. Edgar Acuña in the edition of the statistical textbook:

                         “Statistical Analysis of Data using MINITAB” (in Spanish)

2002                            Invited to participate in the winter workshop: An IMS Mini-meeting on

                         Imaging, Classification & Clustering held at the Statistics of the

                        University of  Florida. January 11-12, 2002.

2002-present    Research Assistantship from Office of Naval Research through Dr. Edgar

                         Acuna’s grant (N00014-00-1-0360).

2004-2005        Mentor in the AGEP program supported by NSF. University of    Puerto

                         Rico, Mayaguez.

2004                 Invited to participate in the Mathematical and Statistical methods 

                         for visualization and analysis of high dimensional data to be held at the

                         Mathematical Science Research Institute at Berkeley, California.

                        

Publications:

 

  1. Acuña, E. Rojas, A., and Coaquira, F. (2002). The effect of feature selection on combining classifiers based on kernel density estimates. In K. Jajuga, A. Sokodowski, H.-H Bock (Eds).Classification, Clustering and Data Analysis. Springer, Heidelberg, 161-168.
  2. Acuña E. and Coaquira, F. (2003) On the performance of ensembles of classifiers based on kernel density estimation. Proceedings of the International conference on computer, communication and control technologies, CCCT03. Vol I. Computing/Information Systems and Technologies. p. 462-467. Orlando, Florida.
  3. Acuña E., Coaquira, F., and Gonzalez, M. (2003) A comparison of feature selection procedures for classifiers based on kernel density estimation. Proceedings of the International conference on computer, communication and control technologies, CCCT03. Vol I. Computing/Information Systems and Technologies. p. 468-472. Orlando, Florida.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC FORUMS

 

  1. Feature selection for classification.  Meeting of the Caribbean and Central America Region, International Biometric Society, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. June 11-13, 2003.
  2. Selección de variables para clasificación. Seminario de Investigación Matemática SIDIM. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico, February 2003
  3. On the performance of ensembles of classifiers based on kernel density estimation. International conference on computer, communication and control technologies. Orlando, Florida. July 30-31, 2003.

 

Language Knowledge: Spanish and English.