Raymond Borges is a doctoral student in Computer Science at the West Virginia University College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. During his masters he was a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) fellow and collaborated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, for his thesis research project, under the Research Alliance in Math and Science program. Here, he interned twice and worked with Dr. Robert Patton, from the Computer Data Analytics group, and law enforcement agencies on an algorithm to identify initial child pornography content uploaders on BitTorrent Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks.

He obtained his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Universidad del Turabo. During his years as an undergrad he participated in and led various undergraduate engineering research and design teams under the Multidisciplinary Engineering Program for Innovation (MEPI) program. In the MEPI program he worked on various projects including: a smart window for smart house systems, an infant heart monitor digital display and a human-computer interface for the blind. He also led High School Student robotic teams under the High School Enterprise (HSE) program in collaboration with Michigan Technological University. In the HSE program, students designed two remotely-operated underwater vehicles and presented them at the Michigan Tech 2009 Expo. For his undergrad Software Engineering class Raymond collaborated with the University of Puerto’s (Rio Piedras campus) medical division at Centro Medico to create an application for assisting in daily spore and pollen counting for air quality reports.

Raymond also holds a number of technological certifications in computer networks, computer and network security, and computer repair as well as a Microsoft certification, these are: CompTIA Security+ CE, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA A+ IT Technician, Original Equipment Manufacturer and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist 70-624. He has given reviews for several of these certifications to companies such as Centennial, IBC Junior College and SuperMax supermarkets. His current research interests include data mining in P2P networks, robotics and cybersecurity.

In his free time Raymond enjoys reading novels, astronomy and meteorite collecting. You can see his meteorite collection at http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com and his meteorite general information webpage at http://meteorite.weebly.com/. He also enjoys web design, fossil hunting, rock hunting, movies, watching anime, playing video games and playing pool.