Research Assistant at University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina Area
- Current
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- Research Assistant at University of South Carolina
- Past
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- Applications and Web services developer at University of South Carolina
- Lab Instructor at University of South Carolina
- Software architect and Web services developer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and at University of South Carolina
- Instructor - Operating Systems & Systems Programming at Universidad Veracruzana
- Software Engineer/Systems Analyst at National Institute of Ecology, Mexico
- Multiagent Systems Group Research Fellow at National Laboratory of Advanced Computer Science, Mexico
- Software Architect/Systems Analyst at University of Veracruz, Artificial Intelligence Department, Mexico
- Software Architect/Systems Analyst at The city of Xalapa Municipal government, Mexico
- Education
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- University of South Carolina-Columbia
- Universidad Veracruzana
- Universidad Veracruzana
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
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Laura Zavala’s Summary
WORK EXPERIENCE: software engineer, software architect/systems analyst, application developer, object oriented developer, database designer, database developer, and Web applications developer.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: Artificial Intelligence, multiagent systems, service oriented computing, semantic web, and software engineering.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE ON VARIOUS APPLICATION DOMAINS: financial - travel expense and payroll; educational - skill assessment, curricula, bibliography, question, and assessment management; information management - human resource management, environmental information management, AI, agents and multiagent systems.
ACHIEVEMENTS: high-revenue-generating software, winner of programming competitions, invitations to selective events and honor societies, academic excellence and awards.
Laura Zavala’s Experience
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Research Assistant
University of South Carolina
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2002 — Present (7 years 11 months)
• Conducted research in software robustness and multiagent systems:
Developed and implemented AI-based strategies to achieve robustness in software through teams of cooperating agents. Designed mechanisms for development of agents representing Web services. The agents served as proactive proxies for the underlying passive Web services.
• Conducted research in ontologies:
Studied mechanisms for construction of consensus ontologies for Web service applications and Web service Integration.
• Conducted research in Web services discovery and selection:
Proposed and developed a behavioral approach to selection of Web services with the purpose of providing more precise results.
• Publication and presentation of research results in books, conferences, and workshops. -
Applications and Web services developer
University of South Carolina
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year )
ARDA project “Combining Facts and Expert Opinion in Analytical Models via Logical and Probabilistic Reasoning”
Developed Web services and Web services eventing applications for situation recognition from massive data by assembling fragments of Bayesian networks.
USDA project “Pathogen Info System: Agent-Based Infrastructure and Bayesian Analysis”
Developed software for analysis of text documents, automatic extraction of causal relations from text, and automatic creation of Bayesian network fragments from the extracted causal relations. -
Lab Instructor
University of South Carolina
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2006 — December 2006 (5 months)
Lab Instructor for CSCE 145: Algorithmic Design I
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Software architect and Web services developer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and
University of South Carolina
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year )
Collaborated in DARPA “Virtual Soldier Project”
Assessed and developed knowledge-based middleware, APIs, asynchronous Web services, ontologies, and UML documentation, to connect individually developed applications and components from different parties and of a great variety (e.g. visualization/simulation, modeling, diagnosis, prediction, statistics, geometry, anatomy, and physiology) for development of a medical care system for diagnosis of soldier’s battlefield injuries.
Designed the architecture for a exposing part of the JSim simulation package functionality as a Web service for ORNL simulations. Developed and tested the JSim Web service on the open-source Apache Axis Web Service Engine. -
Instructor - Operating Systems & Systems Programming
Universidad Veracruzana
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
September 2001 — February 2002 (6 months)
Introductory course to the concepts of operating systems and systems programming (I/O systems, storage devices, file systems, memory allocation, multiple-program systems, processes, interprocess communication, and synchronization).
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Software Engineer/Systems Analyst
National Institute of Ecology, Mexico
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
January 2001 — December 2001 (1 year )
Analyzed, designed, implemented, and documented their Web-based travel expense system. Connected the system to the project budgeting and the accounting systems to allow for the necessary workflow.
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Multiagent Systems Group Research Fellow
National Laboratory of Advanced Computer Science, Mexico
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Research industry)
April 2000 — January 2001 (10 months)
Research in "Multiagent Organizations". Developed the Coupled ATNs (CATNs) agents’ actions and interactions modeling language. Developed a FIPA-OS-based toolkit (CATNAgentToolkit) for CATN agents programming.
Published and presented results in national conferences and workshops -
Software Architect/Systems Analyst
University of Veracruz, Artificial Intelligence Department, Mexico
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Research industry)
February 1997 — April 2000 (3 years 3 months)
Designed and developed a commercial high-revenue-generating system for skill assessment and personalized learning plan generation that undergraduate applicants to the University of Veracruz used as part of their preparation for the admission test.
Developed software for curricula, question, and assessment management. Created a training plan and support training materials for use in training workshops. Imparted training workshops at different educational institutions along the country for the users of the software.
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Software Architect/Systems Analyst
The city of Xalapa Municipal government, Mexico
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)
August 1996 — May 1997 (10 months)
Analyzed, designed, and implemented their human resource management and payroll systems. Created a training plan and support training materials. Trained the users of the systems.
Laura Zavala’s Education
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University of South Carolina-Columbia
2003 — 2008
Overall GPA 3.9/4.0
- Activities and Societies:
- Upsilon Pi Epsilon (International Honor Society for the Computing and Information
Disciplines)
Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society)
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
Active member - Center for Information Technology (http://www.cse.sc.edu/research/cit/)
Active member - Multiagent Dynamics Laboratory (http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/mdl/index.html)
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Universidad Veracruzana
Master , Artificial Intelligence , 1998 — 2000
Graduating Summa Cum Laude
Overall GPA 95/100 (Top 5% of Class) -
Universidad Veracruzana
B.S. , Computer Science , 1992 — 1996
Graduating Summa Cum Laude
Overall GPA 92/100 (Top 5% of Class)
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Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology -
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Women Who Tech
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