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About me
 | Currently I am doing my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Utah State University. I did internships with IBM Research in 2010 and 2011. I was born in Peru and came to the US to work as a Research Assistant in projects on Data Mining, Pattern Recognition, and Computer Vision. Specifically, I have been working on Traffic Understanding in Video Sequences, Clustering and Indexing of Unstructured Data (Videos, Music, and Human Motion), Multimedia Information Retrieval, Large Scalable Systems, and Real-time Data Stream Analysis. Please take a look to our Research Projects and their corresponding Publications. One of these projects won an IBM innovation award on Scalable Data Analytics in 2010 by efficiently detecting interesting patterns in congested roads from streams of video data. You can find my Resume here (PDF). You can also play with our online Human Motion Retrieval System based on similarity hashing of realistic time-series presented in ACM MIR 2010 (Philadelphia) at http://datamining.bluezone.usu.edu:8082. Sorry when the server is offline due to maintenance tasks at USU. |
Contact information
Name: Omar U. Florez
E-mail: omar.florez [@] usu.edu
Phone: (435) 757-9354
Address: 409 Old Main, Department of Computer Science
1400 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT-84322, USA
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Awards and Honors
- Winner of one of the Scalable Data Analytics Innovation Awards for a Smarter Planet by IBM Research. The award is valued in $20,000 and supports our research in Traffic Understanding in Congested Roads, December 2010.
- PhD Scholarship to attend to the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Seattle, WA, USA, August 2011.
- Scholarship to attend to the Doctoral Consortium of the 2011 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2011.
- Scholarship to attend to the NSF-Sponsored Academic Workshop for Underrepresented Assistant & Associate Professors and Senior Doctoral Students, Los Angeles, CA, USA, February 2011.
- Best paper in the Fifth South American Congress on Informatics and Systems, November 2005.
- Second position (2nd out of 3200 participants) after admission exam to the San Agustin University, Arequipa, Peru, December 2000.
News
USU Computer Scientist Building Bridge to Opportunities (USU college of science).
USU Computer Scientists Receive Grant to Decipher the Morning Commute (USU college of science).
Peruvian PhD student wins 2010 IBM Innovation Award (LivingInPeru).
Estudiante arequipeño ganó premio a la innovación científica de IBM (El Comercio, in Spanish).
