Professional Preparation:

University of Miami Education B.S. 1989
Florida International University English M.A. 1999
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) at Erasmus University MIS PhD. 2006

Appointments:

2005 Director, Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) 2002-2005 Associate Director, CIARA
2002-2003 Director, IT Research Madrid-Miami Center
2000-2002 Assistant Director, Network Engineering and Telecommunications
1995-2000 Adjunct Instructor, Freshman Composition, Academic Systems Multi- Media English
1998-1999 Sr. Programmer Analyst, Academic and Research Computing
1992-1996 Chief, of Information Services, Miami-Dade, Department of Solid Waste Management

Selected Publications/Presentations:

Xing Hang, David Villegas Castillo, S. Masoud Sadjadi, and Heidi Alvarez. “Formative assessment of the effectiveness of collaboration in GCB,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2007), Merrillville, Indiana, USA, October 2007.

C. Zhang, B. Liu, X. Su, H. Alvarez and J. Ibarra, "An Experimental Approach to
Integrating NetFlow Flow-level Records and NLANR Packet-level Traces",
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet Monitoring and
Protection (IEEE Computer Society Press), Silicon Valley, July 2007.

H. Alvarez, J. Ibarra, K. Kumar, C. Zhang, et. al., "CyberBridges: Integrating Advanced Grid Infrastructure with Science and Engineering", Proceedings of the TeraGrid Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2007.

H. Alvarez, D. Chatfield, D. Cox, E. Crumpler, C. D’Cunha, R. Gutierrez, J. Ibarra, E. Johnson, K. Kumar, T. Milledge, G. Narasimhan, M. Sadjadi, and C. Zhang, "Cyberbridges: A Model Collaboration Infrastructure for e-Science", Proceedings of the the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2007

H. Alvarez Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities Enabled by Information Communication Technology. Erasmus Research Institute of Management Ph.D. Series. Rotterdam, The Netherlands. June 2, 2006.
http://hdl.handle.net/1765/7830

Publications:

Please view Professional CV

Synergistic Activities:

Chairperson, Internet2 Emerging Research and Education Networks Caribbean Special Interest Group

Chinese American Network Symposium (CANS) Program Committee

Latin American University Research and Education Networks Foundation Board

FIU Academy for the Art of Teaching Grant Award; Innovations in Process Analysis Chairperson, Miami-Dade County Information Systems Policy Committee Group

Collaborators And Other Affiliations:

Collaborators and Co-Editors: Paul Avery; University of Florida Physics,
David Chatfield; FIU Chemistry, Donald C. Cox; FIU CIARA, Eric Crumpler;
FIU Biomedical Engineering, Cassian D’Cunha; FIU Chemistry, Ronald
Gutierrez; FIU Biomedical Engineering, Vasken Hagopian; Florida State
University Physics, Julio Ibarra; FIU CIARA, Eric Johnson; FIU SCIC, Laird
Kramer; FIU Physics, Kuldeep Kumar; FIU Decision Sciences and Information
Systems, Pete Markowitz; FIU Physics, Harvey Newman; Caltech Physics, Sergio
Novaes; University of Sao Paulo Physics, Ernesto Rubi, FIU CIARA, S. Masoud
Sadjadi; FIU SCIC, Xun Su; Caltech, Ioseph Legrand, Caltech, Chi Zhang; Juniper Networks.

- Graduate Advisors: Professor Kenneth Johnson; FIU College of A&S English
Department.

- Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor: Dr. Professor Kuldeep
Kumar; Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University.