Soraya Abad-Mota
Contact
soraya@unm.edu
Phone: (505) 277-3052
Physical Address
Room
2040
Farris Engineering Center
Building #
119 on the UNM map
Mailing Address
MSC01 1130
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1070
Senior Lecturer III
Department of Computer Science
Education
PhD, Computer Science, University of New Mexico, 2006
MS, Computer Science, Rutgers University, 1992
Magister, Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad Simón Bolívar, 1983
Ingeniero en Computación, Universidad Simón Bolívar. Caracas, Venezuela, 1980
Biography
After two and half decades as a faculty at Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB) and consultant in Caracas, Venezuela. Soraya is reinventing herself and opened another door at University of New Mexico. She has studied, developed, and taught Databases at USB and for external companies (banks, oil companies, and environmental agencies). Directed more than 30 students in 15 senior year projects of her own creation. Supervised as an academic adviser, other 25 students in joint projects with varied private and governmental organizations; the projects were developed by senior students at the outside organization, as a requisite for graduation. Academic adviser of three master’s thesis.
Teaching Interests
- Data modeling
- Databases
- Computer Organization
- Computer programming
Research Interests
- Semantic Data Modeling
- Information Extraction
- Interaction between Databases and AI