Pedro A. Colón-Hernández Cellphone: (787)-360-4991; E-mail: [email protected]; Website : pedroacolon.com

Education: Institute of GPA: tbd/5 Ph.D Media Arts and Sciences 06/2018-Present Massachusetts Institute of Technology GPA: 5/5 M.S. Media Arts and Sciences 09/2016-05/2018 University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez GPA: 3.90/4 Bachelor of Science in Engineering 08/2011-06/2016 Experience: MIT Media Laboratory Graduate Researcher (Sept 2018-Present) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory, Object Based Media Group Researching how to make intelligent agents use and adapt commonsense knowledge dynamically to various domains, to make inferences on these domains and be able to guide users in tasks with just in time error handling • Intelligent assistant development • Commonsense knowledge, domain adaptation, question answering • Artificial intelligence research MIT Media Laboratory Master’s Thesis (Sept 2017 – May 2018) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory, Object Based Media Group Designed and developed and object detecting wearable bracelet that provides just in time relevant information of an object to a user through a bone conduction headset and an intelligent agent • , spectrometer, and camera sensor fusion for object detection • Custom fabrication of bracelet chassis and electronics • Machine learning techniques for object detection and classification • Audio augmented reality information access MIT Media Laboratory Graduate Researcher (Aug 2016 – Sept 2017) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory, Object Based Media Group Researched innovative content and interactions for 8k resolution and HDR coloring. • Mouse, Touch, and Kinect integration for manipulation of point clouds • Group interactions for visual data analysis • Unity and HoloLens application development MIT Lincoln Laboratory Graduate Researcher (May 2017 – Aug 2017) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, Group 59 Worked on fuzzing commercial avionics • C++ and Python tool Development • Developed pipeline components to automate the fuzzing of avionics through various methods MIT Lincoln Laboratory Graduate Researcher (Jun 2016 – Aug 2016) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, Group 59 Designed and developed data verification algorithms for an insider threat corpus • Python multiprocessing and shared memory • Optimized scripts to deal with gigabytes of data MIT Media Lab Undergraduate Researcher (Jun 2015 – Aug 2015) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Object Based Media Group Implemented the software system for an interactive storytelling platform in Unity 5 and a demo for the system. • Unity 5 2D Application development for the Android Platform • Wrote scripts in C# and JavaScript to incorporate Android Speech Recognition with the application MIT Lincoln Laboratory Student Technical Assistant (Jan 2015 – May 2015) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory Group 59 Worked on various projects as a co-op Student in the Cyber Systems Assessments Group. • Application development using Python, React.js, Java, and Maven • JSON-LD Framing application • ANTLR Tree grammar development

MIT Lincoln Laboratory Summer Research Intern (June 2014 – Aug 2014) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory Group 59 Developed a web based graphical user interface (GUI) for a semi-automatic interactive user traffic model generator. • Developed a fully functional web application written in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS • Used the Fabric.js library for interactivity within the application • Implemented a Node.js server for simple REST calls Mobile Software Development Research (Aug 2013 – May 2014) MIT Lincoln Laboratory-University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP) IAP with Lincoln Laboratory which seeks to port I-Vector speaker identification to Android devices. • Ported C++ code into Android through the Native Development Kit (NDK) • Developed a fully functional Android application capable of enrolling and identifying speakers • Developed a Node.js server to serve speaker models Intel IRISE Intern (May 2013-Aug 2013) Intel Corporation Worked in the Many Integrated Core Software Engineering group developing scripts for cluster tool support for the Xeon PHI System Management software. • Learned Python to write scripts to access Xeon PHI card information • Worked with GIT for version control of the software • Worked in a Linux environment using terminal commands Publications: • Hover: A wearable object identification system for audio augmented reality interactions(LatinX-NIPS, Dec. 2018) (Extended abstract for workshop) Pedro A. Colon-Hernandez • Portable Ontological Expressions in NoSQL Queries (arxiv, October 2016) (Full Paper) Suresh K. Damodaran, Pedro A. Colon-Hernandez • I-vector speaker and language recognition system on Android (IEEE-HPEC, September 2016) (Full Paper) Christian D. Vazquez, Pedro A. Colon-Hernandez, Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo Certifications: • Passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam, and certified EIT in Puerto Rico • Passed the Practice and Principles of Engineering (PE) exam Awards and Fellowships: • Magna Cum Laude Graduation Honors (2016) • Dean’s List Honor Tuition at UPRM (2011- • ECE Department Graduation Prize (2016) 2016) • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipient • Oriental Bank Scholarship (2015) (2016) • PR College of Engineers Scholarship (2012) • Graduate for Minorities (GEM) Fellowship Recipient (2016) Technical Skills: • Proficient: Java, Python, C# • Familiar: JavaScript, C, C++, SQL • Experience with GIT and VCSs • Command Line application development • Android Development • Web development and Node.js • Familiarity with build systems such as Maven, Gradle, and Makefiles • Embedded systems design and development • Fusion 360 CAD modeling