Marbella Duran R.

                                  Computer Science                        

Marbella was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Her hobbies include going to the theaters, practicing sports and reading. While in school, she was awarded medals for participating in spelling bees and science fairs. She lives in a rural community and combines fun with education. She likes to read and dance. In January of 2003 she was awarded the MIE scholarship. The last semester she worked in a  research at Universidad Metropolitana with the Professor Pedro Maldonado. Her research was about Construction and Programming of an Autonomous Robot. She participed in summer research in 2003 at the University of Minnesota. Her research was The Evolution of Transportation Networks. She worked in Department Civil Engineering with the Professor David Levinson. At present she is participant in DMP summer research in Umass Lowell with the Professor Holly Yanco in System Tracking - Crossing .She is working in Computer Science Department. Marbella plans to complete graduate studies in Computer Science and later to do a PhD in Computer Engineering. She wants to continue participing in summer research.

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