Educational Testing Services (ETS) Princeton, NJ USA IT Data Scientist

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Harrisburg, PA USA Research Associate, Machine Learning Center for the Environment, Energy, and the Economy Ph.D. Information Systems Engineering and Management

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Harrisburg, PA, USA (Mar 2021 - Expected October 2024) Ph.D. Information Systems Engineering and Management

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Harrisburg, PA, USA (Jan 2018 - Feb 2021) MS Information Systems Engineering and Management

Instituto de Estudios Superiores en Administración (IESA) Caracas, Venezuela (Oct 2011 - Mar 2013) Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Bentley University Waltham, MA, USA (Sep 2006 - May 2009) BS/BA Marketing & Liberal Studies Minor Information Design & Corporate Communication

N.K. Pahuja, M.H. Rivero, “Predicting the Impact of Wildfire Using Machine Learning Techniques to Assist Effective Deployment of Resources” In Conference Proceedings of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), 2023.

S. Aram, M. H. Rivero, N. K. Pahuja, R. Sadeghian, J. L. R. Paulino, M. Meyer, J. Shallenberger. “Multi-Environmental Parameters Dashboard for Susquehanna River Basin using Machine Learning Techniques.” In Conference Proceedings IEEE Computer Society & Conference Publishing Services (CPS), 2020, 2021 Governors Award for Environmental Excellence (Wolf Administration & DEP, Pennsylvania, 2021)

M. H. Rivero, “An Open-Source Application Built with R Programming Language for Clinical Laboratories to Innovate Process Of Excellence And Overcome The Uncertain Outlook During The Global Healthcare Crisis” In Conference Proceedings IEEE Computer Society & Conference Publishing Services (CPS), 2020.

S. Aram, M. H. Rivero, N. K. Pahuja, R. Sadeghian, J. L. R. Paulino, M. Meyer, J. Shallenberger. “Data-driven Environmental Management: A Digital Prototype Dashboard to Analyze and Monitor the Precipitation on Susquehanna River Basin” Springer Nature Research Book Series: Advances in Data Science and Information Engineering (Springer), 2020. Best Paper Award

2nd Place Overall ETS AI Hackathon

Issued by Educational Testing Services (ETS) Product Innovation and Development Division · Feb 2024

ETS AI Hackathon is a company-wide initiative to ignite new ideas to solve modern workforce needs by applying Generative AI. The demo presented, which achieved 2nd Place Overall, is an AI-generated interview Simulator focused on skillset diagnosis and candidate development. Over 100 participants were grouped into 22 teams.

ETS Outstanding Volunteer Award

Issued by ETS Center for Advocacy and Philanthropy · Oct 2023

On behalf of the ETS Center for Advocacy and Philanthropy (CAAP), congratulations on being selected an ETS Outstanding Volunteer. The award was established to recognize volunteers like you who display a commitment to serving nonprofits and causes about which they are passionate. Nominees were judged based on the community’s need of the volunteer service performed, demonstrated commitment, and impact made on the community. You were selected based on your volunteer service with Hispanics Inspiring Students’ and Achievement (HISPA) for sharing your story and motivating our next generation of leaders.

Operational Excellence Award

Issued by Educational Testing Services (ETS) Technology Division & Leadership · Nov 2022

Selected to receive an Operational Excellence Award as part of ETS Presidential Awards:
Archana Iranganti and Maria Rivero worked together to develop a Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) framework and Machine Learning Development Lifecycle (MLDLC), which is now part of the Technology Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). MLOps aims to integrate agile methodologies into the end-to-end process of developing and running ML/AI workloads. It brings together best practices from Data Science, Data Engineering, and DevOps to streamline model design, development, and delivery across the MLDLC. The framework was designed to be language, platform, and infrastructure agnostic to ensure it provides optimal MLOps experience and guidance for users at ETS in building and deploying ML models.

2021 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence Awarded by Governor’s Wolf Administration and the Department of Environmental Protection of Pennsylvania (DEP) “Multi-Environmental Parameters Dashboard for Susquehanna River Basin using Machine Learning Techniques.”

DEP honored 13 projects by schools, businesses, and community organizations around the state with the 2021 Governor’s Awards for Environmental Excellence. “This year’s Environmental Excellence honorees showcase the innovation and passion that our students, educators, and community and business leaders bring to environmental challenges,” said Governor Tom Wolf. “Their dedication brings health, economic, and recreation benefits not only to their communities but to all Pennsylvanians.”
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology received this Award acknowledging the Research that developed the multi-environmental parameters' dashboard to predict the water quality of the Susquehanna River Basin using Machine Learning Techniques.

Best Paper Award Environmental Management System Awarded by Hamid R. Arabnia, Ph.D., Chair, IKE 2020 Steering Committee & Editor, Transactions of Computational Science & Computational Intelligence (Springer) at the International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE July 27-30, 2020)

Honorable Spanish Tutor Award Center for Languages and International Collaboration (CLIC) of Bentley University (January 2008 to May 2009)

Dictated Spanish language tutoring sessions to more than 100 students at Bentley University from January, 2008 until May, 2009. These undergraduate students voted for me as the Honorable Spanish Tutor at Bentley University.

Harnett Award Competition First Place Team. Sponsored by Bentley University (May 2007). Created a business plan about the online product 21st Century Teaching Best Practices (21CTBP) for the company VHS Learning (VHS, Inc.)

e-Cornell - Cornell University Online, Began in August 2020 Python for Data Science

HarvardX - Harvard University R Basics, Visualization, Productivity Tools In progress: Machine Learning

SCRUM Alliance Certified ScrumMaster

Tecnológico de Monterrey & Johnson & Johnson and Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. Sponsorship Process of Excellence of Clinical Laboratories

R Programming (Shiny Apps), Python (Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-Learn), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), PowerBI, PowerApps, Amazon Web Services (AWS) SageMaker Studio, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bedrock for Generative AI, Version Control (Git Lab), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

SureStart/Break Through AI (Cornell Tech initiative) Mentoring Program – AI & Machine Learning Mentor (September 2021 - Current)

El Museo del Barrio New York Fundraiser Corporate & local Alliances support (May 2017)

AID for AIDS International Fine Art fundraiser (December 2016)

Best Buddies International Art Teacher (February 2015)