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   Mar 22th
    2012
Conference paper accepted
The paper "Controlled Straight Mobility and Energy-Aware Routing in Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2012), Hangzhou, China.

   Feb 21th
    2012
Conference paper accepted
The paper "A Response-Aware Risk Management Framework for Search-and-Rescue Operations" has been accepted for presentation at the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2012), Brisbane, Australia.

   Feb 13th
    2012
Successful PhD thesis defense
Rafael has successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Towards Fault Reactiveness in Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Carrier Robots"

   Feb 7th
    2012
NSERC IRDF Fellowship awarded
Industrial Research & Development Fellowship (IRDF) awarded by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) with Larus Technologies Corporation as the industrial partner.

   Jan 11th
    2012
OCE First Job awarded
First Job fellowship awarded by the Ontario Centres of Excellence with Larus Technologies Corporation as the industrial partner.

   Aug 23th
    2011
MITACS Accelerate Fellowship awarded
The research project "Online Risk-Driven Management Framework for Territorial Security in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks" has been awarded a MITACS Accelerate PhD fellowship.

 June 5th
     2011
Conference paper accepted
The paper "An Evolving Risk Management Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 2011 IEEE Int'l Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIMSA 2011).

 
Teaching Experience
 
Undergraduate courses
 
  At Central University of Las Villas (UCLV)
 


    		• Assembly Language, 2nd year Comp. Science, UCLV, 2003 – 2007


    		• Programming Windows, 3rd year Computer Science, 2003 – 2008


    		• Introduction to Computing, 1st year Foreign Languages, 2003 – 2006


    		• Programming Languages, 3rd year Computer Science, 2006 – 2007


    		• Operating Systems I, 3rd year Computer Science, 2007-2008
       
      At University of Ottawa
     


    		• Introduction to Computing II (ITI 1121B), Part-Time Instructor (Winter 2012).


    		• Databases I (CSI 2132), TA (Winter 2011).


    		• Introduction to Computing Concepts (CSI 1308A), Fall 2010 and 2011 (Part-Time Teacher) and Fall 2009 (Guest Lecturer)


    		• Computing Concepts for Business (CSI 1306E), Winter & Fall 2009, Winter 2010 (TA & Guest Lecturer)


    		• Introduction to Computers I (ITI 1120), TA (Fall 2008)


    		• Advanced Programming Concepts with C++ (CSI 2372A), TA (Fall 2008)


    		• Computer Networks and Protocols (CSI 4118), TA (Fall 2008)


    		• Operating Systems (CSI 3131), Guest Lecturer (Spring-Summer 2011)
     
    Graduate courses


      At Central University of Las Villas (UCLV)




    		• Advanced Aspects of Windows 2000, September - November 2004


    		• ADO.NET Database Programming, February 2005


    		• The Microsoft.NET Development Environment, course on Advanced Software Development Techniques


    		• Entrepreneurial Application Development in Java, Master program in Computer Science, March 2007

      At Foreign Academic Institutions



    		• Artificial Neural Networks, M.Sc. program in Applied Computing, Invited Instructor at the University of Managua (Nicaragua), July 28 – August 29, 2007


    		• Neuro-Fuzzy Systems, M.Sc. program in Applied Computing, Invited Instructor at the University of Managua (Nicaragua), July 28 – August 29, 2007

      At the Entrepreneurial Environment



    		• Advanced Programming with C#.NET, ETECSA Cienfuegos, Cuba, August 2005


    		• Advanced Programming with VB#.NET, ETECSA Havana, Cuba, May 2006


    		• SQL Server 2000 Administration, ETECSA Cienfuegos, Cuba, October 2006
     
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