General Information
Carlos Ordonez
Assistant Professor
University of Houston
Department of Computer Science
Carlos Ordonez studied at
UNAM University (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de 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.
Dr Ordonez worked for Teradata (formerly part of NCR),
from 1998 to 2006 as intern and researcher,
developing DBMS software in SQL, C++ and Java, as well as providing consulting
to perform data mining on massive relational databases.
Dr Ordonez cooperated in the optimization of several
statistical and machine learning algorithms that work inside the
Teradata DBMS to analyze large data sets.
In 2006 Carlos Ordonez joined the
Department of Computer Science
at the University of Houston,
where he leads the DBMS group,
continuing the same research direction on integrating mathematical and statistical computations with a DBMS.
His research spans database systems,
data mining, big data analytics and high performance computing.
His research at UH has been funded by NSF.
