Carlos Ordonez
Assistant Professor
University of Houston
Department of Computer Science

Dr. Ordonez studied at the UNAM University in Mexico, where he got degrees in applied mathematics and computer science. He continued PhD studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology under the supervision of Edward Omiecinski, conducting research on database systems and machine learning. Carlos worked for Teradata, NCR, from 1998 to 2006 conducting research, developing software and providing consulting on relational databases, machine learning and statistics. Carlos cooperated in the development of several machine learning and statistical algorithms that work inside the Teradata relational DBMS. In 2006 Carlos joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. He leads the UH Database Systems group and is a member of the Data Mining and Machine Learning Team at UH.

Research Interests

• Database Systems (query optimization, data mining inside a DBMS, scalable algorithms, OLAP)
• Machine Learning (dimensionality reduction, clustering, EM algorithm, statistical learning, classification)

Education

• B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, UNAM University, Mexico, 1992.
• M.S. in Computer Science, UNAM University, Mexico, 1996.
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, 2000.

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