John P. Abraham
Home:
956-686-5042 Office: 956-665-3550
EDUCATION
1990
Graduate Courses in Computer Science 18 sem hours.
Programming (Assembly, Pascal, Cobol, BASIC),
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Parallel Computing.
1986
Ed. D. in Allied Health Leadership – A combined program of Baylor Medical College and University of Houston. Courses taken from both institutions.
Statistics and Higher Education Administration.
1974 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
M. Ed. In
Allied Health Leadership – A combined program of
Noyes Foundation Fellowship Recipient.
Management, Ed Psych, Curriculum, Leadership.
1972 Lubbock
Christian University, Lubbock,
TX.
B.S. in Biology, Chemistry and Clinical Laboratory Sciences (triple major). 158 sem hours. Board Certified Medical Technologist-MT(ASCP) and Specialist in Hematology-SH(ASCP).
1968 Lubbock
Christian High School, Lubbock,
TX.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018 - Current
- University
of Texas RGV – Interim Chair, Electrical Engineering
2015 - Current - University
of Texas RGV
Professor of computer Science
Professor of Computer Engineering
1976 - 2015
University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539.
2006 - 2015 Professor
of Computer Engineering. http://cmpe.utpa.edu/faculty-1
2003 - 2015 Professor
of Computer Science. http://www.cs.panam.edu/people
1986 – 2002 Associate Professor of Computer
Science
1976 –
1986 Assistant and Associate
Professor of Clinical Laboratory Sciences.
1975 – 1976 Laboratory
Assistant Program, Memorial Hospital Corpus Christi, TX.
1973 – 1975 Instructor,
Medical Technology Program, Texas A&I University, Corpus Christi, TX.
Courses Taught
Cyber Security and
Forensics (Graduate)
Independent Studies (Graduate) C#
E-Commerce (Graduate)
Graduate Seminar in Writing Thesis/graduate project
Graduate Seminar in Windows SharePoint Services.
Applied Database Principles – Oracle (Graduate)
Principle of Information Systems (Graduate)
Network Security (Graduate Seminar)
Advanced Computer Architecture (Graduate) for Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
Advanced Network (Graduate).
Foundation of Systems (Graduate), Computer Organization and Operating System concepts.
E-Commerce (Graduate Seminar).
Computer Networks (Senior)
Computer Architecture (Senior)
Senior Project
Advanced C# (Junior)
Practicum in Computer Science (Junior)
Topics in Computer Science (Senior)
Object Oriented Visual Basic (Junior)
Survey of Computer Concepts (Junior)
Advanced Visual Basic (Sophomore)
Data Structures in C++ (Sophomore)
Data Structures in Pascal (Sophomore)
C++ (Sophomore)
Fortran for Engineers (Sophomore)
Introduction to Computer Science – Pascal (Freshmen)
Introduction to Computer Science – C++ (Freshmen)
Computers and Society (Freshmen)
Instrumentation I & II (Junior)
Clinical Chemistry I & II
Clinical Microbiology (Senior)
Clinical Parasitology (Senior)
Hematology (Senior)
Immunohematology (Senior)
Methods of Analysis I & II (Senior)
New Courses or Programs Developed
Developed the Clinical Laboratory Sciences Degree program and got it accredited.
Developed the Master’s Degree in Information Technology
Courses developed:
CSCI 6175 – Recent Developments in Computer Science (2015)
CSCI 6831 – Independent Study (C#)
CSCI 6318 – Cyber Security and Forensics
CSCI 6303 – Principles of Information Systems. Graduate course
CSCI 6314 – E-commerce. Graduate Course
CSCI 6315 – Applied Database Systems – Oracle Administration. Graduate Course
CSCI 6389 – Internship. Graduate Course
CSCI 6175 – Network Security. Graduate Seminar
CSCI 6175 – Sharepoint services. Graduate Seminar
CSCI 6175 - Advanced file handling techniques. Graduate Seminar
CSCI 4345 – Computer Networking
CSCI 4318 – Cyber Security and Forensics
CSCI 3327 – Advanced Object Oriented Visual Basic
CSCI 3328 – Advanced Object Oriented C#
CSCI 3333 – Structured Basic
ADMINISTATIVE EXPERIENCE
1976 – 1986 Chair of Clinical Laboratory Science,
1984 – 1985 Interim Dean, Health Related
Professions,
1975- 1976 Coordinator of the Laboratory
Assistants Program,
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
President –
Abraham Technologies, Inc. 20 years.
Board
Member – McAllen General Hospital, McAllen Methodist Hospital, McAllen Medical
Center. 10 years.
Established and
consulted – JPA Home Health Care,
SHORT COURSES ATTENDED
Five days workshop – Federated Computing
Research Conference, ACM, San Francisco,
CA, May, 2007
One day workshop – MATLAB Reference for super
Computing, Education
Summer Program, Super Computing, Purdue University, June 25-27, 2007.
One day workshop – SKETCHUP & GOOGLE
EARTH, Education Summer Program, Super
Computing, Purdue University, June 25-27, 2007.
4 hour workshop – Online
Trust and reputation, ACM conference on electronic Commerce, San Diego
California. June 11,
2007.
4 hour workshop - Prediction
Markets: Economics, Computation, and Mechanism Design, ACM conference on electronic Commerce,
4 hour workshop – Modeling Complex Networks for Electronic
Commerce, ACM conference on electronic Commerce, San Diego California. June 12, 2007.
4 hour workshop – Sponsored Search, ACM conference on electronic Commerce,
Two days workshops in
Visualization and Data Mining, Super Computing Conference, Tampa FL 2006.
Two days workshops in Data Mining at the
Super Computing Conference,
Seattle WA, 2005.
One day workshop in
Critical Thinking, University of Texas Pan American, April 15, 2005.
Two days workshop in
‘Famous Accounting Software,’ Fresno, California, Dec. Dec
15-18, 2003.
Three days workshops: How to build a Grid
Service using Globus Toolkit , A Practical Approach to High Performance Data
Transport, and Introduction to GRID computing and overview of the Globus
Toolkit. 2003 Supercomputing Conference,
Three days tutorials on
High Performance Computing, 2002 Supercomputing Conference, Baltimore, MD. November, 15 to 19, 2002.
One week workshop on Topics
in Computer Science, University of Central Florida July 29 to Aug 2, 2002.
Two days workshop on the Workshop on
Computer Networking: Curriculum Designs and Educational Challenges. ACM Sigcomm 2002 Conference.
Computational Science
Workshop. One week training at Louisiana State University. Jan 4, 2002 to Jan 10, 2002.
NCR – Teradata, One week training in Teradata
Administration (
NCR – Teradata, One week training in Teradata
Application Development (
CISCO Router course.
INTERACTIVE, 3 day course in 386ix
NETWARE, two weeks training
in Novell Server Installation and Administration.
AUTODESK – two weeks training in AUTOCAD.
PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS AND PROCEEDINGS (recent)
Craig Franke, Samuel
Morin, Artem Chebotko, John
Abraham, and Pearl Brazier, "Efficient Processing of Semantic Web Queries
in HBase and MySQL Cluster", IT Professional,
2013. IEEE Computer Society. June, 2013.
Craig Franke, Samuel
Morin, Artem Chebotko, John
Abraham, and Pearl Brazier, "Efficient Processing of Semantic Web Queries
in HBase and MySQL Cluster", IT Professional,
2012. IEEE Computer Society.
Andrey Kashlev, Artem Chebotko, John Abraham, Pearl Brazier, and Shiyong Lu, "Benchmarking Bottom-Up and Top-Down
Strategies for SPARQL-to-SQL Query Translation", in Proc. of the 8th
International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'12), Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA, July 16-19, 2012.
Craig Franke, Samuel Morin, Artem Chebotko, John Abraham, and
pearl Brazier. Distributed
SemanticWeb Data Management in HBase
and MySQL Cluster. 2011 IEEE International
Conference on Services Computing, 2011.
Irma Resendez, Pablo
Martinez, and John Abraham, An Introduction to Digital
Forensics, ACET Journal of Computer Education and Research, Volume 6, 2009-10.
February 2010.
John
Abraham and Mary Walker, Assigning IP Addresses to Routers.
ACET Journal of Computer Education and Research, Volume 6, 2009-10.
February 2010.
John Abraham, Pearl
Brazier, Artem Chebotko, Jaime Navarro, and Anthony Piazza.
Distributed Storage and Querying Techniques for a Semantic Web of
Scientific Workflow Provenance. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, 2010.
Irma Resendez, Pablo Martinez, and John Abraham, An Introduction to Digital Forensics, Peer Reviewed, proceedings of the Conference of the Association of Computer Education in Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, October 2009.
Pablo Martinez and John Abraham. The customer Tracking System (CTS), Peer Reviewed, Proceedings of the Conference of the Association of Computer Education in Texas, Corpus Christi, TX , October, 2009.
John Abraham, Zhixiang Chen, Richard H. Fowler, Bin Fu, Binhai Zhu: On the Approximability of Some Haplotyping Problems. AAIM 2009: 3-14
Zhixiang Chen, Bin Fu and John Abraham. A quadratic bound for Rocchio’s
similarity-based relevance feedback algorithm with a fixed query updating
factor. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. 2008.
John Abraham, and Mary Walker,
Assigning IP Addresses to Routers. Peer Reviewed, Proceedings of the conference
of the Association for Computer Education in
John Abraham. An online book in
progress for CSCI 6303, Principle of Information Technology Systems. I have been writing two to three chapters a
year. 2006 – 2009. The book has 150
pages so far. This is the only required textbook for the class. Available on my website.
Fu, Bin, Sai Krishna Aravalli and John Abraham, Software protection by Hardware and Obfuscation, Proceedings of the Internation conference on Security and Management, June 25-28, 2007.
Abraham, John
P, A Proxy Server for Mirrored Sites, Proceedings of the ASEE Regional
Conference,
Abraham, John P. Creation of Indexed File for Fast Access Using the Dot Net Environment, Proceedings of the ASEE Regional Conference, South Padre Island, March 2007.
Wu, Xiadong & John P. Abraham, The Intensity Level Reduction in Radiation Therapy, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Santa Fe, New Mexico, ISBN: 1-58113-964-0, 2005 pp. 242-246.
Abraham, John P., Sylvia Lujan, Ester E. Lopez and Mary Walker. "Graduating Student's Perceptions of Outcomes of College Experiences at a Predominantly Hispanic University," Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, July 2002.
Abraham, John P. , Undergraduate Networking Course. A white paper appeared
in the Workshop on Computer Networking: Curriculum Designs and Educational
Challenges. ACM Sigcomm 2002
Conference.
Abraham, John P., "Routing
Packets Through Subnets," Proceedings of the
Abraham, John P., "A Practical Approach to Assigning Subnet Masks," Proceedings of the ETCE/OMAE 2000 Joint Conference, New Orleans, LA 2000.
Abraham, John P., "A Laboratory Approach to Teaching TCP/IP Protocol on Windows NT," Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education, Annual Conference of the Gulf Southwest Region, Dallas, TX, 1999.
PRESENTATIONS (recent)
John
Abraham, Redundancy Requirements for Computer Networks, 50th ACET
Conference, Austin, TX October 2014
John
Abraham, “Replacing a Network Laboratory with Virtual Machines,” 50th
ACET Conference, Austin, TX, October 2014
Grant proposals submitted
2016 Grant Submitted: Homeland Security.
Homeland and Personal Security Based on Wireless Data Transmission. Under Review. October 2016
Graduate College Success Fund, Received a grant of $5,000. April 2016.
2016 Grant Submitted: State
Department Proposal, “Personal Security Based on Wireless Data Management,
Co-PI $181,309. Dec. 2015 Not Funded.
2016 Grant Submitted: Robortic Telescope
Observatory, Nicolas Pereyra, et al. NSF.
Not Funded.
2016 Grant submitted: NSF Proposal, “Big Data Management for Personal
Security”, Co-PI $1,151,899. Not funded.
2015 Grant submitted:
George Ndeta PI to DHHS, I will serve as the consultant. Not Funded.
2015 Grant Submitted: Bin Fu, PI, John
Abraham co-PI, BIGDATA: IA: RUI: Big
Data Management for Personal Security. NSF. Not funded.
Received 4 travel related grants totaling $13,000
NCR-Teradata. Software grant. $1,696,500. Dec 2002.
Grant proposals Submitted:
PI – NSF/IMI grant for $200,000, “International Nanoscience Collaboratory,” NSF-02-096, June, 2002. Not Funded.
PI - NSF grant for $409,396.00, “A Scholarship program for Engineering and Computer Science”, 2000-2001. Not Funded.
Co-PI - Department of Health and Human Services grant for $107,000.00, “Med Alarm: An Alarm and Reminder System for Medication”, 2000-2001. Not Funded.
PI - The Meadows Foundation Grant #84120196.01 - $34,360.00 - Medical Technology. 1986,
Equipment Donation obtained - $ 47,745.00 - Medical Technology. 1985.
Co-PI - Julian Castillo, John Abraham, and Jerry Stamper, Obtained $450,000 AHEC grant.1977.
Noyes Foundation Fellowship Recipient.
MASTER’S THESES AND PROJECTS AND HONOR’S COMMITTEES
Advisor MSIT, Master’s project 2015-16:
Irby, Cavin,
Implementation of VLAN and VPN using CISCO router and Switch, April 2016.
Worsham, Benjamin, Smart Phone App for controlling
Traffic Lights in McAllen, Dec, 2015.
Villanueva, Edgar, Virtual and Immersive Entironments Creating Real Time Renders, Dec. 1015.
Tamez, Fidencio, High
School Counselor Portal, Dec. 2015
Andrade, Antonio, CCNA Certification, Aug,
2015.
Chair, Thesis Committee. Master of Science in
Computer Science, Juan Monrreal, 3D printing using Raspberry Pie. Nov, 2015.
Advisor, MSIT, Master’s project: Haritha Desari, Hector Garza,
Carlos Trevino, Sijham Bahri and Edgar Flores. 2014-2015.
Chair, Thesis Committee.
Rodolfo E. Roman Velasco, “Efficient Evaluation of SPARQL Property Path Queries
Over PROV-DM Provenance Graphs in a RDBMS,” Masters in Computer Science May
2014.
Advisor. Master of Science in Information Technology. Pablo Martinez. Customer Tracking
system (CTS). Masters project, 2008.
Advisor. Master of Science in Information Technology. J.L. De La Cruz.UTILIZING MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT TO IMPROVE EVALUATION
OF PUBLIC SAFETY COMPUTER AUTOMATED DISPATCH AND RECORD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
ALONG THE
Advisor. Master of Science in
Information Technology. Christopher Espinoza. Hospital Network Best
Practice Implementation, Masters Project. 2007.
Advisor. Master of Science in
Information Technology. Serkan B. Celteik. Application Servers and Portal Design. Masters
Project, 2006.
Advisor. Master of Science in Computer
Science. Eseqiuel
Garcia. Academic Tracking system: Data
Mart and e-Portfolio (MUPS) Approach, 2005.
Advisor. Honors Thesis. Ricardo Suzuki. A Web Based Medical Records
system. 2006.
Member. Master of Science in
Computer Science. Osama Khan. Parametric Classification in domains of Characters, Numerals,
Punctuation, Typefaces and Image Qualities. 2004.
Advisor. Master of Science in Computer Science. Joe Gomez. ICAST – Interfaceable Cashiering system.
2004.
Advisor. Master of Science in
Computer Science. Manda Bhadradri
Rami Reddy. A Membership Based Secure Digital Library Application. 2004.
Advisor. Master of Science in
Information Technology. Angelita elizondo Teniente. Job Search Project. Masters project.
2003
Advisor. Master of Science in Computer
Science. Allan Figueroa, Parallel Event Construction of CLEO Data Using the
Message Passing Interface. 2002
Advisor. Master of Science in
Computer Science. Tibebe Assefa. E-commerce
the eBay model. 2002.
Advisor. Master of Science in Computer Science, Gerardo
Alvarez, Medical Database Interaction with Smart Cards. 2002
Advisor. Master of Science in
Computer Science, Raquel Pena, Speech Pattern Analysis. 2002.
Advisor. Master of Science in
Computer Science, Jose Luis, Solorzano, Incorporating
Technology into a Stick for the Blind. 2002.
Member. Master of Electrical
Engineering, Ms. Afife Pestana
for MSE (Thesis Option) in Electrical Engineering concentration. Currently
Serving on a thesis committee.
Chair of Honor’s Thesis Committee. Huerta, Torrey J., The
Internet Map Design Project,
December 2001.
Member. Master of Science in Computer
Science. Cox, Michelle, The
Application and Performance of a Generic Task routine Decision Making Algorithm
to Recipe Selection in Meal Planning, August 2000.
NEWS AND INTERVIEWS
“Cyber Security, Aftermath of Sony Intrusion,” Channel 2, Fox Affiliate, Reporter Pedro Rojas, December 2, 2014.
"Computer Security,” Channel 5 KRGV, ABC affiliate, Expert Interview, aired at 6pm and 10pm Nov 28, 2007. http://www.newschannel5.tv/2007/11/28/983060/Computer-Hard-Drive-Search
“Y2K Diagnosis with DOS, " Team Report, Channel 4 news, CBS affiliate, aired at 6 PM, December 29, 1999.
"Y2K Diagnosis with Windows," Team Report, Channel 4 news, CBC affiliate, aired at 10 PM December 29, 1999.
"Y2K - A final Look," Team Report, Channel 4 news, ABC affiliate, aired at 6 AM December 30, 1999.
"Valley Escapes 9/9/99 problems," Interview with The Monitor, September 10, 1999.
"Feeding
the Poor," Eye
Witness News Journal, a 15 minutes live interview on Channel 23, NBC
affiliate about my role in the Food Bank of the
"Y2K Problem," a Brief Interview, Channel 4, CBS affiliate, Team Report, aired at 6'O clock news. 1998.
"Morality and Society," a 30 minutes Live Television Interview, Borderline, Channel 5, ABC Affiliate, 1997.
"Responsibilities of the Parents in their Children's Education," a 30 minutes Live Television Interview, Borderline, Channel 5, ABC Affiliate, 1995.
"Border Health Issues and President Clinton's Health Reform," a 30 minutes Live Television Interview, Borderline, Channel 5, ABC Affiliate. 1994.
"NAFTA and its Effects on Education," a 30 minutes Live Television Interview, Borderline, Channel 5, ABC Affiliate. 1993.
"NAFTA, My
Reaction," a Front Page News Article with my Picture, The
"India Sangeeth," Hosted a one Hour Radio Program, Local NPR
station. I established this Radio
Program which continued for 4 years.
"Status of Medical Technology," Channel 5 news, 10PM. 1988
"Diabetes
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PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE – MOST RECENT
Department level
1. Chair, C.S. Promotion and Tenure Committee (2014-15)
2. Co-chair, Lecturer evaluation Committee 2015.
3. Member, C.S. Promotion and Tenure Committee.
4. Chair, C.S. Promotion and Tenure Committee.
5. Chair, Faculty Search Committee. A very active work-intensive committee. Met with candidates, took them to Dinner, etc.
6. Chair, Facilities Committee
7. Member Annual Evaluation Committee (Merit Committee)
8. Member, Scholarship committee.
9. Member, Graduate Committee
10. Member, Strategic Committee
11. Presented new courses to the University Curriculum Committee.
12. Participated in strategic Planning retreats.
13. Participated in advisory committee meetings.
College Level:
14. College Promotion and Tenure Committee. Chaired it two years.
15. Member, College Council
16. Member, College Strategic Planning Committee
17. Main speaker, Dr. Hashim Mahdi, Memorial Service.
18. Computer Engineering Departmental meetings.
19. Member, College Facilities Committee
20. Worked with the Chair of Electrical Engineering department to propose a new degree program in Computer Engineering. It was approved and now we have a new degree in that field.
University level:
21. Chair, University Tenure and Promotion Committee, UTRGV 2014-16.
22. Advisor, Chi Alpha, Student Organization, 2012-2016
23. Member, Academic Administration Working Groups, Planning Groups for new UT-RGV, 2013-2014.
24. University level appeals committee, Promotion and Tenure. 2012-2014 (Chair 2012-13)
25. Member, Pool for University Tribunal, 2012-2014
26. Faculty Class Marshall, UTPA Graduation, Spring 2014
27. Chair, Core Curriculum Committee 2012-2013
28. University Tenure and Promotion Committee 2013
29. Faculty Marshall, Graduation Spring 2013
30. Dean’s Selection Committee, College of Health Sciences.
31. Attended AAA meetings to serve on the search committees.
32. Faculty Marshall, Graduation 2010
33. Grand Marshall, Graduation 2009
34. Vice-Chair, University Curriculum committee.
A.
Professional activities.
1.
2013-2016
Editor, SciTechnol- Journal of Computer Engineering
and Information Technology. http://www.scitechnol.com/editorialboardJCEIT.php
2. Consulted Atlas & Hall, an Attorney
Firm regarding Load Balancing and VPNs
3. Consulted Bettcher
Manufacturing regarding ERP/MRP software QAD and Plex
4.
Served
as the external reviewer for Tenure and Promotion for Texas A&M
University Corpus Christi.
5.
Session
chair for Computer Educators Conference, Austin, TX 2008.
6.
Session chair for ASEE 2007,
7.
Reviewed
17 grants over a 6 year period for Minority Health Research and Education
Program, Texas Coordinating Board, 1999-2005.
8.
Coordinated TCEA programming contest. 2002.
9.
Section Coordinator, Wokload
Characterization, IEEE,
10.
Area Coordinator, National Association of Hispanic &
Latino Studies, 2000-present.
11.
Session Moderator, National Conference of National
Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, Session #87,
12.
Scientific Section Chair, American Society of Engineering
Education, Annual Conference of the Gulf Southwest Region,
13.
Panelist, One America In the 21st Century: The
President's Initiative on Race, Directed by Mr. William Leftwitch,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity, October 4, 1999.
B. Community activities.
1. Vice-President, Mar Thoma, Christian Church RGV. 2012-2016
2. Involved with Indian Community to start a cultural organization called Thanal. The news has appeared in Indian newspapers.
3. Executive member of MARV, an Indian cultural organization. 2010-2014
4. Active in the Indian community organizations.
5. Served as a Deacon for First Assembly of God, 2010-2013
6. Served as board member of the RGV Food Bank.
7. Served as board member for Habitat for Humanity.
8. Served as board member for the Comfort House, McAllen, TX.
9. Served on the Board of Governors of the McAllen Medical Center for 11 years.
10. Member, 6 years, Rotary Club of Edinburg. 1999-2005.
11. Teach and preach at local churches for over 25 years.
12. Consulted hundreds of local businesses for
computer programming, networking, router configuration, SQL servers, etc.
Honors
Met the 14th Dalai Lama
Met President Clinton at a local dinner event 1996.
Leadership Award, Athletic Students nominated award, University of Texas
Pan American, Athletic Department, Honored During the Half-time of February 27
Basket Ball Game, February 2000.
Invited Guest at White House Community Empowerment
Conference, President Clinton and Vice-President Gore attending.
Nominated to Governor George Bush for state level
committees by Republican Party Chairman.
Invited to attend the inauguration ceremonies for Governor
George Bush, 1996 and 1998.
Invited to run for the US congress by the Republican Party
Chairman (declined!)
Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Texas Pan American
- 1983.