Dante Gama Dessavre

I am currently an adjunct lecturer at the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University teaching the course Data Visualization Design.

Recently I got my PhD student while being a research assistant at Visualization for Decision Making Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology working with professor Ramirez-Marquez. My main research area was in novel mathematical models, machine learning and data visualization techniques for social media and text content analysis.

Prior to that I did a Masters Degree in High Performance Computing at the Edinburgh Parallel Computer Center at the University of Edinburgh.

I have two BSc degrees from ITAM: Applied Mathematics and Computer Engineering.

Skills

The computer languages I currently use are:

• Python
• C
• Swift
• R
• Javascript
• Matlab

Other computer languages I have used in the past include: C++, Java, Matlab, C#, Fortran, LISP, PHP, Objective C.

Parallel Computing Technologies:

• Hadoop
• OpenMP
• MPI
• OpenCL
• CUDA

Visualization technologies I use:

• D3.js
• three.js
• WebGL
• ggplot
• matplotlib
• CoreGraphics/CoreAnimation

Portfolio

Click this link to see a temporary portfolio of my past projects (the final version is in construction).

Published Work

• Multidimensional Approach to Complex System Resilience Analysis
  Gama Dessavre D., Ramirez-Marquez J.E., Barker K. Reliability Engineering and System Reliability Engineering & System Safety 149 (2016): 34-43.


• Towards Computational Discourse Analysis: A Methodology for Mining Twitter Backchanneling Conversations
  Lipizzi C., Gama Dessavre D., Iandoli L., Ramirez-Marquez J.E. Computers in Human Behavior, 64, 782-792


• Robustness in network community detection under links weights uncertainties
  Rocco C.M, Ramirez-Marquez J.E., Moronta J., Gama Dessavre D. Reliability Engineering and System Reliability Engineering & System Safety 153 (2016): 88-95.


• Social Media Conversation Monitoring: Visualize Information Contents of Twitter Messages Using Conversational Metrics.
  Lipizzi C., Gama Dessavre D., Iandoli L., Ramirez-Marquez J.E. Procedia Computer Science, 80, 2216-2220


• Optimal placement of public-access AEDs in urban environments.
  Bonnet, B., Gama Dessavre, D., Kraus, K., & Ramirez-Marquez, J. E.. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 90, 269-280.


• Overall System Resilience Estimation
  Gama Dessavre D., Ramirez-Marquez J.E., Barker K. ESREL 2015 Proceedings.


• Effects of link weights uncertainties in network community detection: Application to two electric power systems
  Rocco C.M, Ramirez-Marquez J.E., Moronta J., Gama Dessavre D. ESREL 2015 Proceedings.


• Using High Performance Computing to Improve Image Guided Cancer Treatment
  Gama Dessavre D. Masters Dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 2012.


• Privacy Conservation in the Analysis of Social Network Users' Patterns
  Gama Dessavre D. Bachelors Dissertation, ITAM, 2011.

Submitted, in review process papers:

• TopicRes: Network Models and System Resilience to Measure the Topic Dynamics of Online News Media
  Gama Dessavre D., Muratyan G., and Ramirez-Marquez J.E. Computers in Human Behavior


• Nar-A-Viz: A Methodology to Visually Extract the Narrative Structure of Text
  Gama Dessavre D., and Ramirez-Marquez J.E. Computers and Industrial Engineering


• Optimization via Crowd Computing: A Video Game Approach
  Perez Estrada L.E., Gama Dessavre D., Ramirez-Marquez J.E., and Gutierrez-Garcia J.O. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems


• Distance Optimization Heuristic for Patient Home Visits and its Effects Readmission Rates
  Gama Dessavre D., and Ramirez-Marquez J.E. Operations Research for Healthcare

In process (preliminary titles):

• Using Parallel Computing Tools to Estimate System Resilience
  Gama Dessavre D., Ramirez-Marquez J.E.


• Resilience Optimization Formulation for Protection Strategy Comparison
  Gama Dessavre D., Ramirez-Marquez J.E.