Pablo Rivas is an associate professor of computer science at Marist University. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas, El Paso. Formerly, he was an assistant professor of computer science at Baylor University and a graduate research intern at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His research interests revolve around the problems of computational efficiency and model accuracy on deep and wide machine learning algorithms, including the ethical and societal implications of their applications, and quantum approaches. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.