sona τ Estrada Rivera

Education

B.Sc. Computer Science

CCOM-UPR-RP @ San Juan, Puerto Rico

• Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico Started a bachelor’s in Computer Science.
• Teacher’s assistant for Proyecto Remezcla and Pre-calculus.
• Tutor for Discrete Mathematics.
• Board member of and active participant in Asociación de Estudiantes de Ciencia de Cómputos.

B.A. Environmental Design (dropped)

EARQ-UPR-RP @ San Juan, Puerto Rico

• Lead a team of architects and won the Buildner International Architecture competition.
• Participated in a month-long student exchange program at UNAM.

Research Experience

Minorities in Mathematics

MSRI-UP @ Berkeley, California US

Research question: What social justice problems surrounding minorities in Mathematics can we not answer with our current data?

Domain Periodic Multidimensional Costas Sequences

CCOM-UPR-RP @ San Juan, Puerto Rico

This article focuses on finding more Costas sequence constructions that result in domain periodic or multidimensional Costas sequences.

Counting Arithmetical Structures on Cycles with a Doubled Edge

VPR³ @ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania US

This article focuses on finding a closed formula for the amount of arithmetical structures on a cycle graph with a single doubled edge. We were able to simplify the problem significantly. Consequently, we were able to find a closed formula, given that this simpler problem gets solved.

Observation and Analysis of System KPP-1802

UPR-RP @ San Juan, Puerto Rico

This article presents the data from 10 distinct observations using the telescope network from LCO of the double star system KPP-1802.

Teaching

Discrete Mathematics Teacher's Aid

CCOM-UPR-RP @ San Juan, Puerto Rico

Organized weekly studying sessions for the discrete mathematics students. The discrete mathematics course is known for being a very hand undergraduate class for the students in computer science.

• Highest rate of students passing happened during my first year as a teacher's aid.

Precalculus Teacher's Aid

MATE-UPR-RP @ San Juan, Puerto Rico

Assisted a professor during an advanced placement summer pre-calculus course. During this, I dedicated the morning half of the day for general class assisting and the evening half to assist students one-on-one with general questions and homework. Our class had 70 students in total.

Code Your Music Summer Camp

Remezcla UPR-RP @ San Juan, Puerto Rico

Taught a variety of students ranging from middle school to high school how to make music using computer science techniques.

• 50+ students participated.
• All students succesfully put into work good programming practices.
• All students composed music they were proud of.
• Perfect attendance throughout the entire camp.
• Several students are now eager to continue studying Computer Science.

Projects

Fractal Escape Time Renderer

Personal

Implemented a graphics renderer entirely from scratch in C++. Can render fractals, those that are plotted using an escape-time algorithm.

• Completely from scratch in C++.
• Parallelizable algorithms.
• ≈ 200 lines of code.

Languages

Programming Languages

Interests

• Parallel Computing
• Digital & Analogue Photography
• Drumming
• Backp'acking & Hiking
• Bouldering or Rock Climbing
• Mathematics
• Language Learning