CV

Modified

September 1, 2026

Curriculum vitae

Education

PhD, Computer Science, EECS, Washington State University — 2013–2018 Dissertation: Bipartite Network Community Detection: Algorithms and Applications

MSc, Computer Science, EECS, Washington State University — 2011–2013

BSc, Computer Science, Universidad de Cuenca — 2003–2009

Selected publications

(Full list with abstracts and links on the Publications page.)

  1. Goebel, K., Solow, W., Pesantez-Cabrera, P., Keller, M., & Fern, A. (2026). Budgeted Online Active Learning with Expert Advice and Episodic Priors. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(45), 38496–38504.
  2. Dinkins, T., Wong, W., Amogi, B., Pesantez-Cabrera, P., Patel, J., Khot, L., & Fern, A. (2026). Localized Near Surface Temperature Inversion Forecasting Using Long Short-Term Memory. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(47), 40249–40257.
  3. Solow, W., Pesantez-Cabrera, P., Keller, M., Khot, L., Saisubramanian, S., & Fern, A. (2026). A Hybrid Modeling Framework for Crop Prediction Tasks via Dynamic Parameter Calibration and Multi-Task Learning. **.
  4. Goebel, K., Pesantez-Cabrera, P., Keller, M., & Fern, A. (2025). Transfer Learning via Auxiliary Labels with Application to Cold-Hardiness Prediction. **.
  5. Balcarcel, N., Pesantez-Cabrera, P., Goebel, K., Keller, M., Khot, L., Fern, A., & Kalyanaraman, A. (2025). PhenoTracker: A machine learning model to track grape phenology. Workshop Proceedings of the 54th International Conference on Parallel Processing.

Selected talks

  • 121st Annual Meeting and NW Hort Expo, “Persistir y Adaptarse Desafíos y Oportunidades de la Integración de la Inteligencia Artificial en la Agricultura,” Washington Tree Fruit Association, December 8-10, 2025.
  • STEM Possible 2025 Event, “The AgAID Institute,” First Nations MESA Program, May 23rd, 2025.
  • WineVit2025, “GrapeHardiNet: The AgAID Institute model to predict Cold Hardiness”, Washington Winegrowers Association, February 12, 2025.

Service

  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing: Assistant Editor
  • HARVEST: International Workshop on Applications of CV and HPC in Agriculture - Program Committee