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Ana R. Cameron-Soto is a PhD student at the
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus,
enrolled in the Chemical Engineering program.
She obtained a B.S. degree in Chemical
Engineering in May 2007. Ana is mentored by Dr.
Aldo Acevedo, and she is working on the rheology
of complex fluids to understand and develop oriented materials.
As a graduate student she received the Puerto Rico Louis
Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (PR-LSAMP) Cohort V,
PR NASA Space Grant Doctoral Fellowship and Sloan Doctoral
Fellowships. Also, her research work has been published and
presented in national scientific meetings such as The Society of
Rheology, NSTI-Nanotech and Materials Research Society
congresses. Ana has voluntarily offered science workshops to
high school students and to the general community to improve
their knowledge on nanoscience concepts.
Rey F. Matos Rivera is a first year graduate
student in the Department of Biology at the
University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus
(UPR-M). He's currently working with a NASA
EPSCoR project, in which he will be developing
new alternatives for remote sensing by developing
hyperespectral systems to better observe how biodiversity is
behaving, especially in tropical forests. He also received the
LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship Cohort XIX in 2011.
He graduated magna cum laude from this same university with a
B.S. degree on Industrial Microbiology in June 2003. While at
UPR -M, he was part of the Honor Society group BBB and
Golden Key, and he was twice part of the Honor Board. After
college he worked as a microbiologist for Johnson & Johnson
company named OMJ Pharmaceuticals, and then became a
microbiologist consultant for several companies as Lilly, OMJ,
Pfizer, Jansen, OBI, OMP and Cordis.
Denisse Soto-Aquino earned her B.E. in
Chemical Engineering at the University of
Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Currently she is a
doctoral candidate in Chemical Engineering
under the mentoring of Dr. Carlos Rinaldi. As
part of her thesis project, she studies the
magnetorheological properties of ferrofluids
under shear and magnetic field by Brownian
dynamics simulations. Those studies gave her
the opportunity to participate in 11 th
International Conference on Electrorheological fluids and
Magnetorheological suspensions (ERMR) celebrated in Dresden,
Germany in August 2008, as well as many other presentations in
national and international settings. In her undergraduate years
Denisse participate in several PR-LSAMP activities and in 2007
she was awarded the Puerto Rico Louis Stokes Alliance for
Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship Cohort
V.
David N. Cuevas-Miranda, Ph.D., obtained his
B.S. in Geology from UPR Mayagüez in 1998 and
a M.S. in Geology from Saint Louis University,
MO. He received his Ph.D. in Marine Sciences
from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in
2010. As a graduate student, David received
doctoral fellowships from the NASA-Puerto Rico
Space Grant, AGEP, and NSF-EPSCoR programs as well as a
Graduate Student Grant from the Southeastern section of the
Geological Society of America in 2006. Dr. Cuevas-Miranda has
presented his research in several meetings included the Annual
Meetings of the Geological Society of America (2004 & 2006)
The LSAMP Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting and the 11 th
International Coral Reef Symposium (2008). Currently, Dr.
Cuevas-Miranda is working for the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency and also as a professor in the Polytechnic
University of Puerto Rico.
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Ruth Hidalgo-Hernández is a former PR-
LSAMP student and Bridge to the Doctorate
Fellow-Cohort V (2007) from UPR Mayagüez. Her
BS and MS degrees are both in Mechanical
Engineering under the supervision of Dr. O.
Marcelo Suárez. Her research focused on the
tribological characterization Al-B-X composites
subject to mechanical wear as the need of lightweight materials
(composite aluminum) for efficient aerospace applications. After
concluding her degree as Master of Science in Mechanical
Engineering, she began working as Research Mechanical
Engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, specifically with
the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) -
Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) under the
Concrete and Materials Branch, in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Marietta E. Marcano-González is a Ph.D.
student of Environmental Engineering in the
University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez Campus
(UPR-M). She graduated with honors from this
institution with a B.S degree in Mechanical
Engineering in September 2010. While at
UPRM, she was mentored by Dr. Yang Deng
and served as PR-LSAMP undergraduate for Dr. Arturo
Hernandez. She also participated several times as an intern with
the US-Army Corps of Engineers. Following graduation she was
awarded with the Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship Cohort VIII
as part of the PR-LSAMP program. Currently she is working in the
research of titanosilicates for air purification applications.
Edgar Martí-ArbonZ received his B.S. and
M.S degrees in electrical engineering from the
UPR, Mayagüez in 2007 and 2009,
respectively. He is currently working on his
third year toward the PhD degree in electrical
engineering at Arizona State University (ASU),
Tempe Campus. He received the GEM
fellowship from 2009 to 2010 and the dean
fellowship from 2009 to 2011. His research
interests include digital systems, power
management and radio frequency integrated circuit (RF IC)
design. On his career path, he worked as design engineer intern
in the Power Management Group at Texas Instruments Inc.,
Manchester, NH, in summer 2009. In addition, he worked in an
internship as design engineer at the Power Management
Integrated Circuit (PMIC) group at Qualcomm Inc., Chandler, Az,
during the summer of 2011.
Sonia L. Avilés Barreto completed her B.S.
in Chemical Engineering in 2008 from
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. As
an undergraduate she performed research
on the areas of rheology and polymer
nanocomposites as a PR-LSAMP scholar.
Currently she is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in
Chemical Engineering at University of
Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, where the focus
of her doctoral research is the development of proton exchange
membranes for energy-efficient devices and gas sensors
applications. As a Ph.D. candidate she received the Bridge to the
Doctorate Fellow Cohort VI and presents her research work in
many national conferences as the 2010 AIChE National Meeting
where she won the 2 nd place on the poster competition and the
2010 ERN Conference where she won the 1 nd place on the oral
presentation competition.