Jaime Acosta
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at El Paso

jcacosta at miners.utep.edu

EDUCATION
University of Texas at El Paso
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2009
  • M.S. in Computer Science, May 2007
  • B.S. in Computer Science, December 2003
  • Graduate GPA: 4.0/4.0
  • Undergraduate GPA: 3.9/4.0

Relevant Courses
  • Voice User Interface
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Computer Graphics
  • Video Game Programming
  • Software Engineering
  • Advanced Object Oriented Programming
  • Towards Zero-Defect Programming
  • Advanced Computer Architecture
  • Advanced Algorithms
  • Data Structures
  • Operating Systems

SPOKEN LANGUAGES
Fluent in English
Proficient in Spanish

SECURITY CLEARANCE
Summer 2004 Obtained United States Government secret-level security clearance.

WORK EXPERIENCE
2006-present Test Director, White Sands Missile Range
Led three interns to design, execute, and analyze several preliminary tests that set the foundation for a new Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System used for tracking and monitoring several soldier entities in a real-time environment.
2004-present Computer Scientist, White Sands Missile Range
Worked on 21st Century Target Control System, which involved remote communication with aircraft and vehicle. Utilized TENA Middleware, Oracle, and C++ on a Redhat Linux operating system to implement Range Interface Controller.
2002-2003 Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
Worked on IBM funded research concentrated on investigating sampled memory traces in order to optimize multiprocessor memory utilization.
2001 Tutor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
Worked as a tutor in the UTEP athletics department for a student taking the Programming and Algorithms course.

PUBLICATIONS
2009
  • Acosta, Jaime, “Using Emotion to Gain Rapport in a Spoken Dialog System,” PhD Dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso. (pdf)
  • Acosta, Jaime, Ward, Nigel, “Responding to User Emotional State by Adding Emotional Coloring to Utterances,” Proceedings of Interspeech. (pdf)
  • Acosta, Jaime “Gaining Rapport by Voicing Appropriate Emotional Responses Based on User State,” ACII Doctoral Consortium.
  • Acosta, Jaime “Persuasion, Dialog, Emotion and Prosody,” MobileHCI Workshop, Measuring Mobile Emotions: Measuring the Impossible?
  • Acosta, Jaime “Using Emotion to Gain Rapport in a Spoken Dialog System,” Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Student Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium.
2008
  • Acosta, Jaime, “Proceedings of Young Researcher's Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems,“ Columbus, OH.
  • Acosta, Jaime, “Poster on Using Properties of Speech to Generate Persuasive Dialog Systems,“ University of Texas At El Paso Student Research Expo.
2007
  • Acosta, Jaime, “Adding the Ability to Eavesdrop on Opponent Communications to an Online Game,” Masters Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso.
2006
  • Acosta, Jaime, Poster on the ability to eavesdrop on opponent conversations in an online team game. Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions, El Paso, Tx.
2004
  • Villa, Diana, Acosta, Jaime, Teller, Patricia, Olszewski, Bret and Morgan, Trevor, “Memory Performance Profiling via Sampled Performance Monitor Event Traces,” Proceedings of the 5th Los Alamos Computer Science Symposium (LACSI 2004).
  • Villa, Diana, Acosta, Jaime, Teller, Patricia, Olszewski, Brett, and Morgan, Trevor, "A Framework for Profiling Multiprocessor Memory Performance", Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Newport Beach, CA, pp. 530-538.
  • Villa, Diana, Acosta, Jaime, Morgan, Trevor, Teller, Patricia, and Olszewski, Bret, “Memory Performance Profiling via Sampled Performance Monitor Event Traces,” Proceedings of the IBM-Austin ACAS 2004 Conference.
2003
  • Morgan, Trevor, Villa, Diana, Teller, Patricia, and Acosta, Jaime, “L2 Miss Profiling on the p690 for a Large-scale Database Application”, Proceedings of the 4th Annual ACAS conference, Austin, Texas

COMPUTER SKILLS
Programming Languages
  • Proficient in Java, C++, C#, Visual Basic, SQL
  • Knowledgeable with Motorolla HC6811, MIPS
  • Familiar with Pascal, Matlab, Awk, Perl
Selected Application Programing Interfaces
  • Knowledgeable TENA, DirectX, OpenGL, Qt, PAPI,Windows,Raknet,SOX,SpeexEncoder,Quake3
Operating Systems
  • Proficient in MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
  • Knowledgeable in Fedora
  • Familiar with SunOS, AIX
Selected Applications
  • Proficient in Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, Virtual Dub, WEKA, Real Producer Pro, MySql Front 2.5, ULead Movie Factory 7.0, Q3 Radiant Map Builder
Databases
  • Proficient with Microsoft Access, MySql
  • Knowledgeable in Oracle, Codebase

AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS
  • Human-machine interaction network on emotions (HUMAINE). 2008-2009.
  • Special Interest Group on Dialog Systems (SIGDIAL). 2008-2009.
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2008-2009.
  • Recipient of Federal Chief Representative, Competitive Professional Development Long-Term Training Assignment. 2008.
  • University of Texas at El Paso Commencement Student Marshal for the College of Engineering. 2007.
  • Interactive Systems Group (University of Texas at El Paso). 2005-2008.
  • Dean’s List for the College of Engineering. 2000-2003.
  • Stipend Award for IBM research. 2002-2003.
  • Association for Computing Machinery (University of Texas at El Paso Student Chapter). 2000-2002.