Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science at UTEP. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carleton University (Canada), a M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) and a B.Eng. in Computer Science from the Panamerican University (Mexico) with a double major in Statistical Methods.

• College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award - Spring 2021 - College of Engineering, UTEP (07/01/2021)
• 2019 Hispanic Engineer National Achievements Awards Conference (HEENAC) Education Award. - Great Minds in STEM (GMiS) (09/26/2019)
• 2019 Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award - National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) (05/14/2019)

• Ph D in Doctor of Philosphy Computer Science, Carleton University (2012)
• MS in Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh (2002)
• Statistical Methods, Center for Mathematical Research (2001)
• BS in Computer Science, Panamerican University Campus Bonaterra (1999)

• The future of water in a desert river basin facing climate change and competing demands: A holistic approach to water sustainability in arid and semi-arid regions Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 46 (2023), W.L. Hargrove, Josiah M. Heyman, Alex Mayer, Ali Mirchi, A. Granados-Olivas, G. Ganjegunte, D. Gutzler, Deana D. Pennington, F.A. Ward, L. G. Chavira, Z. Sheng, Saurav Kumar, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, W.S. Walker.
• The Use of Technology by Older Adults in El Paso, Texas during COVID-19: Purposes, Challenges, and Opportunities 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) (2022), Ashley S. Bangert, Christian Ruiz, Diana L. Becerra, Guillermina G. Nunez-Mchiri,, Daniel E. Calvo, Oscar A. Mondragon Campos, Ruey Long K. Cheu, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales.
• Using Technology to Teach Older Adults during the COVID-19 pandemic 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) (2022), Ashley S. Bangert, Guillermina G. Nunez-Mchiri,, Oscar A. Mondragon Campos, Daniel E. Calvo, Christian Ruiz, Edgar J. Escobedo, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Ruey Long K. Cheu.
• Data-Driven Metrics Applied to Traffic Crashes to Improve Observability in Smart Cities 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2) (2022), Daniel M. Mejia, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales.
• Supporting Regional Water Sustainability Decision-Making through Integrated Modeling 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2) (2022), Luis Garnica-Chavira, Natalia Viillanueva-Rosales, Josiah M. Heyman, Deana Pennington, Katalina Salas.
• Una Plataforma Bilingüe basada en web para el Modelado y la Visualización de Datos para la Sustentabilidad de Recursos Hídricos Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua & Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. (2022), Luis A. Garnica-Chavira, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana Pennington, Josiah M. Heyman.
• How User Ratings Change with Time: Theoretical Explanation of an Empirical Formula Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2020, Redmond, Washington, August 20-22, 2020 (2022), Julio Urenda, Manuel Hernandez, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• A Safety Index for Smart Mobility using Real-Time Crowdsourced Data 6th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2020) (2020), Neale A. Smith, Adriana C. Camacho, Edgar J. Escobedo, Jonathan M. Contreras, Oscar A. Mondragon Campos, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Ruey Long K. Cheu, Victor M. Larios.
• Management of Real-Time Data for a Smart Flooding Alert System 6th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2020) (2020), Victor M. Garcia, Ruth P. Granados, Mario E. Medina, Luis E. Ochoa, Oscar A. Mondragon Campos, Ruey Long K. Cheu, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Victor M. Larios.
• Special Issue on Semantic eScience: Methods, tools and applications Semantic Web 11 5 (2020), Daniel Garijo, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Tomi Kauppinen.
• How User Ratings Change with Time: Theoretical Explanation of an Empirical Formula Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS’2020 (2020), Julio C. Urenda, Manuel J. Hernandez, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Advanced Methods for Big Data Analytics in Women’s Health BIOCOMPUTING 2021: Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium (2020), Mary R. Boland, Karin Verspoor, Maricel G. Kann, Su Golder, Lisa Levine, Karen O’Conner, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez.
• Survey on Experiences in Academia for UTEP Women Faculty & Professional Staff Report prepared for the UTEP Women’s Advisory Council to the President. (2019), Penelope P. Espinoza, Ivonne Santiago, Heidi A. Taboada Jimenez, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Karina Canaba.
• Towards Improving Safety in Urban Mobility Using Crowdsourcing Incident Data Collection 5th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2019) (in press), Carlos Chavez, Emiliano Ruiz , Adrian Gomez , Itzel Rivas , Victor Larios, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Oscar Mondragon, Kelvin Cheu.
• Towards Smart Mobility During Flooding Events in Urban Areas using Crowdsourced Information 5th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2019) (in press), Ubaldo Castro , Jonathan Avila, Cynthia V. Sustaita, M. A. Hernandez, Victor Larios, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Oscar A. Mondragon Campos, Ruey Long K. Cheu, Rocio Maciel.
• Smart Mobility for Seniors through the Urban Connector 5th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2019) (2019), Raul A. Vargas-Acosta, Diana L. Becerra, Okan Gurbuz, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Guillermina Nunez-Mchiri, Ruey Long K. Cheu.
• Why Matrix Factorization Works Well in Recommender Systems: A Systems-Based Explanation Journal of Uncertain Systems 13 3 (2019), Griselda Acosta, Manuel Hernandez, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Eric D. Smith, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Towards SWIM Narratives for Sustainable Water Management In Proceedings of Workshops at the International Semantic Web Conference (2018), Raul A. Vargas-Acosta, Luis Garnica Chavira, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana D. Pennington.
• Towards SWIM Narratives for Sustainable Water Management Proceedings of Workshops at the International Semantic Web Conference (2018), Raul A. Vargas-Acosta, Luis Garnica Chavira, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana D. Pennington.
• Smart Mobility for Seniors: Challenges and Solutions in El Paso, TX, and New York, NY International Smart Cities Conference (2018), Matthew Vechione, Corina Marrufo, Raul A. Vargas-Alejandro, Maria G. Jimenez-Velasco, Okan Gurbuz, Assel Dmitriyeva, Ruey Long K. Cheu, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Guillermina Nunez-Mchiri, Joseph Y. Chow.
• Semi-structured knowledge models and web service driven integration for online execution Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (2018), L. Garnica Chavira, J. Caballero, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana D. Pennington.

• Connectedness – Understanding The Value of Bridging the Digital Divide for Older Adults (2022), Volume El Paso, TX, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Ashley S. Bangert, Mary Yanez.
• Fostering the Use of Scientific Water Models from Different Stakeholder Perspectives through the Sustainable Water Through Integrated Modeling (SWIM) Platform (2022), Volume Puerto Rico, Luis A. Garnica, Josiah M. Heyman, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana D. Pennington.
• Fostering the Use of Scientific Water Models from Different Stakeholder Perspectives through the Sustainable Water Through Integrated Modeling (SWIM) Platform (2022), Volume Puerto Rico, Luis A. Garnica, Josiah M. Heyman, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana D. Pennington.
• CSSI Elements: Data: HDR: SWIM to a Sustainable Water Future (2022), Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana D. Pennington, Josiah M. Heyman, Luis A. Garnica.
• Helping Students Continue to Progress in STEM Education During the Pandemic (2020), Volume Virtual, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales.
• Towards Enabling Different Perspectives of Scientific Resources through Semantics (2020), Volume MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales.
• Towards Improving Safety in Urban Mobility With Crowdsourcing Incident Data Collection (2019), Volume Morocco, Casa Blanca, Carlos Chavez, Emiliano Ruiz, Adrian Gomez Rodriguez, Itzel Rivas Pena, Victor Manuel Larios, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Oscar Mondragon, Ruey Long K. Cheu.
• Towards Smart Mobility During Flooding Events in Urban Areas using Crowdsourced Information. (2019), Volume Morocco, Casa Blanca, Ubaldo Castro, Sustaita Cynthia, Manuel Armando Hernandez, Larios Victor Manuel, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Oscar Mondragon, Ruey Long K. Cheu.
• Smart Mobility for Seniors through Urban Connector (2019), Volume Morocco, Casa Blanca, Raul Alejandro Vargas-Acosta, Diana Becerra, Okan Gurbuz, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Guillermina Nunez-Mchiri, Ruey Long K. Cheu.
• ADAPP: A Crowdsourcing Approach for Inclusive Public Spaces (2019), Volume Orlando, Florida, US, Daniel Ornelas, Manuel A. Hernandez, Javier Padilla, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales.
• Smart Mobility During Flooding Events utilizing Image Processing and Crowdsourced Data (2019), Volume Orlando, Florida, US, Cinthya Sustaita, Ubaldo Castro, Jonathan Avila, S Fuentes, Manuel A. Hernandez, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Oscar Mondragon, Ruey Long K. Cheu, Victor Manuel Larios, Rocio Maciel.
• Towards a Recommender System for Scientific Model Output Visualization (2019), Volume Orlando, Florida, US, Manuel A. Hernandez, Luis A. Garnica, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales.
• Towards Improving Mobility Safety With Crowdsourcing Data in Smart Cities (2019), Volume Orlando, Florida, Carlos Chavez, Emiliano Ruiz, Itzel Rivas Pena, Sandra Barba, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Oscar Mondragon, Ruey Long K. Cheu, Victor Manuel Larios, Rocio Maciel.
• Towards Understanding the Science Behind Water Sustainability Data (2019), Volume Orlando, Florida, US, Raul Alejandro Vargas Acosta, Luis A. Garnica, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana D. Pennington.
• Achieving institutional reform through Latinas’ perspectives on advancement in STEM (2019), Volume South Padre Island, TX, Penelope P. Espinoza, Ivonne Santiago, Heidi A. Taboada Jimenez, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales.
• L1. SWIMming Toward a Sustainable Water Future (2019), Volume Webinar, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales.
• Fostering a Scientific-driven Decision Making Process with SWIM Narratives (2019), Volume UTEP, Raul A. Vargas-Acosta, Luis A. Garnica, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana D. Pennington.
• Silver Connection: A Smart Solution for Senior Connectedness (2018), Volume Pasadena California, Daniel Ornelas, Daniel Robles, Sara Ponce de Leon, Victor Herrera-Vidales, Oscar Mondragon, JG. Flores, M.F. Orozco, Jose Espinoza, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales.
• Towards Improved Mobility in Urban Areas Under Flooding Conditions Using Image Processing (2018), Volume Pasadena California, Manuel A. Hernandez, Dania Orozco, Elias Castillo, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, L. Orozco, Victor M. Larios Rosillo.
• An international interdisciplinary study abroad program on smart cities (2018), Volume Prague, CZ, Ruey Long K. Cheu, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Victor Larios, Maciel Arrellano, Oscar Mondragon, Carlos M. Ferregut, Luisa Mendoza.
• Semantic data and visualization techniques applied to geologic field mapping (2018), Volume El Paso, TX, Perry Houser, Deana D. Pennington, Natalia Villanueva Rosales.

• CAHSI Latinas in Computing
• Organizing CSSI PI Meeting - Towards a National Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem
• IRES: US-MEXICO INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH COLLABORATION FOR SMART CITIES
• IUSE/PFE:RED: Toward a Model of Change for Preparing a New Generation for Professional Practice in Computer Science
• Tier 1 UTC: Connected Cities for Smart Mobility towards Accessible & Resilient Transportation (C2SMART)