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Barbara was born the 27th of October of 1986 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. She graduated from University Gardens High School on 2004. During her high school years she participated in various competitions and extracurricular activities, like being the vice president of the National Honor Society, Hortus Chapter. She got early admission to the Computer Engineering program at University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Campus, where she currently pursues a bachelor degree. She has vast experience doing research. During the summer of '07, she participated in an REU program at Florida International University. Because of her accomplishments, she got published as coauthor of two conference papers. During the spring of '08 she researched on improving student's CS concept retention through computer graphics. She's currently the president of the ACM-Mayaguez Chapter and a member of the Software Testing Research Group at FIU. Her interest areas include biomedical engineering, medical image segmentation, human computer interaction and databases. Her professional goals are to obtain a PhD, teach college level courses in her areas of interest and continue doing research. During the summer of '08 she participated in another REU at the University of Houston with Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris and Deepak Roy Chitajallu, her mentor, working on the automatic detection of the inferior boundary of the heart in non-contrast CT data using dynamic programming. During the summer of '09 she participated in an REU at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte working on identifying doors in images as part of a larger project attempting to create a virtual environment based on real world images.