I am currently a Master of Data Science student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I hold a Bachelor in Science with a major in Integrative Biology from the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras Campus. I have a special interest for the intersection of Data Science, Cyber Security and Politics.
I am an applied scientist who is trying to use algorithms, statistics and data to understand problems and situations that occur in our world. One example of this is my current research project with Dr. Carlos Corrada. It is focused on exploring different data augmentation techniques to overcome the barrier posed by deep learning methods which require big amounts of data to achieve a high accuracy for classification purposes. We are using a biological dataset collected from soundscape recordings in forests in Puerto Rico as a model to explore these methods. We are currently working on writing a manuscript to document our findings, but our work is completely available at GitHub.
In an effort of total transparency, I have requested the Office of the Comptroller of the Government of Puerto Rico to publish the four (4) contracts I have had with the Government of Puerto Rico in their full version. These are available here, if you type Ian Flores under the Contratista text box you will see the contracts listed. Under the Documento column you can find the PDF of the full contract minus personal information.