Joselito A. Guardado

Lecturer I
Department of Computer Sciecne
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Experience

Lecturer I

Aug. 2023 - Present
UTRGV, Department of Computer Science

Teaching students the fundamentals of programming to prepare them for future topics in computer science.

Webmaster

2020 - Present
UTRGV, Machine Intelligence Lab

Developed and maintained front-end and back-end code of multiple websites for the Department of Computer Science and Department of Civil Engineering at UTRGV.

Graduate Assistant

Aug. - Dec. 2022
UTRGV, Department of Computer Science

Taught an 1101 Computer Science course. Taught students the fundamentals of programming and introduced them to various topics in the field of computer science.

Education

PhD in Computer Science

2024 - Present
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX

MS in Computer Science

2022
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX

BS in Computer Science

2020
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX

Projects

3D Protein Visualization

Aug. - Dec. 2022
UTRGV, Department of Computer Science

Developed a web application using Node Express framework to visualize and style protein PDB files in 3D format. Utilized WebGL JavaScript library to visualize protein molecular data. Developed a REST API using JavaScript to receive and store PDB files.

Technology used:

  • HTML/CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Node
  • WebGL

LRGSF Salinity Forecasting Tool

2021 - 2022
UTRGV, Department of Civil Engineering

Developed a web application using Node Express framework to display a map of Texas with live water quality data of the Rio Grande River. Built a web scrapper using Python to collect water quality data and store into an SQL database every 8 hours using a Cron scheduler. Developed a REST API to send water quality data in JSON and CSV format.

Technology used:

  • Pug/Sass
  • JavaScript
  • Node
  • Python
  • SQL
  • JSON

IntelliBeeHive Bee Monitoring System

2020 - 2022
UTRGV, Department of Computer Science

Developed a web application using PHP Laravel framework to display live honeybee activity occuring in bee hive. Built a REST API using PHP to receive and send honeybee data to and from MySQL in JSON format. Developed in PHP a user sign up method requiring email verification and login method using 64-bit tokens.

Technology used:

  • HTML/CSS
  • PHP
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • AJAX
  • SQL
  • JSON

Awards

  • Honey Bee Scholarship
    Awarded the scholarship by the USDA for working on their honeybee monitoring system.

Language

  • English (Fluent)
  • Spanish (Fluent)

Interests

  • Graphic Design
  • Photography
  • Traveling