Dr. Medrano is an Assistant Professor of Geospatial Computer Science at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. Dr. Medrano earned his Ph.D. in Computational Geography at UC Santa Barbara, MS in Multimedia Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, and his BS in Engineering at Harvey Mudd College.
His personal research centers on location decisions, such as point and path location problems to optimize facility utility given resource constraints. His PhD students perform research on AI for Environmental Science applications, resilient operation of drone swarms, and multi-agent multi-objective optimization.