Dr. Pablo Rivas is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Baylor University (formerly at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York). He worked in the industry for a decade as a software engineer before becoming an academic. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, ACM, and SIAM. He was formerly at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. He is a mentor for the LatinX in AI organization, an ally of women in technology, a deep learning evangelist, and a machine learning ethicist. He teaches machine learning and deep learning courses with applications in NLP and computer vision.