Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Jose Luis Paredes moved to Houston, Texas to attend the University of Houston where he graduated with a BS in Physics and a BS in Mathematics in 1990. He completed some graduate course work in physics (1992). He worked as a Desktop Support Specialist and Lab Supervisor at the University of Houston from 1993-2000. Jose joined Yale as a Support Specialist in 2000, then moved onto Systems Administrator for Yale University jose Calendaring System (2004-2006). He joined the Child Study Center in 2006 and moved with the Klin lab to Emory University and the Marcus Autism Center in 2011. His tasks range from client desktop support to server administration, scripting and programming in multiple languages. He is currently working on developing facial feature recognition software. Jose Luis received his MS in Computer Science from the University of New Haven in 2011.