Biography
Dr. Manuel Rodriguez Martinez
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez
Office S-602
Stefani Building
259 North Blvd.
Mayaguez, PR 00681
Term: 02/01/2024 – 01/30/2027
Manuel Rodriguez-Martinez is the interim associate dean for administration and a professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (UPRM). He is also in charge of the efforts to earn ABET accreditation for the B.S. in Software Engineering Program at UPRM. In addition, he is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Special Interest Group on Management of Data computing societies. He earned a doctorate in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2001. He also holds a master's in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1996 and a bachelor's in mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras in 1994.
The research interests of Rodriguez Martinez include Big Data analytics, machine learning, cloud computing and distributed database systems. He received a 2005 NSF CAREER Award and has been a principal investigator on various grants funded by NIH and NSF. He serves as coordinator for the Advanced Data Management Group at UPRM. He is currently one of the team leaders with the NSF Center for the Advancement of Wearable Technologies, an EPSCoR Track 1 Project.