I am a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Irvine in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science with a concentration on Informatics - Software Engineering Track. I have been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and an ICS Fellowship to pursue my Ph.D. Degree. My advisor is André van der Hoek and my research areas are Software Engineering and Software Design. I was previously Instructor (Junior Faculty) at University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia as part of the Software Construction group

2009	Awarded a 3 year ICS Fellowship from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine
2008	Awarded Fulbright Scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in Software Engineering- Fulbright-Colciencias-DNP program

My research interests include software engineering and software design. I am particularly interested in understanding how software designers work alone and collaboratively to creatively solve wicked problems using software as a tool. I am interested in challenges related to software design and architecture; creating collaborative environments for software engineering practice and geographically disperse effective software development groups.

My most recent work is related to Software Product Lines(SPLs) using Model Driven Engineering (MDE). The MDE approach uses models as top level entities in the development processes. With this approach the objective is to use models to describe semantics of artifacts such as business rules and processes to perform analysis and validation of quality attributes, enforce architectural integrity and automatically generate code.

Fall 2009:

I am Reader for INF 153 - Computer Supported Collaborative Work this quarter. Course webpage

Fall 2005-Spring 2009:

I was Junior Faculty (A.K.A Instructor) at University of Los Andes in Bogotá Colombia. I was lecturer for the Software Architecture course for undergraduate students 7 semesters, lecturer for the Software Engineering course for undergraduate students 3 semesters and lecturer for the basic programming course (Algorithmics and Object Oriented Programming) 4 semesters. For more info on my previous work see my previous webpage .

Fall 2009:

INF 201 - Hayes , INF 211 - Jones , ICS 398A - Kay