School of Business, Leadership and Technology
Ernest Bonat, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering

Ph.D., National Technical University of Ukraine
M.S., National Technical University of Ukraine
B.S., National Technical University of Ukraine

Dr. Bonat is originally from Havana, Cuba. He studied Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering at the National Technical University of Ukraine, Kiev for nine years. He earned the B.S./M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Software Engineering. Dr. Bonat immigrated to the United States via Canada and for the past twenty four years he has lived in the Portland area where he has taught online/onground Computer Science/Business Statistics for several universities and corporations, including Concordia University, Portland Community College, Mount Hood Community College, University of Phoenix, Argosy University, Utica College, Colorado State University, Intel Corporation and Hewlett-Packard.

Dr. Bonat is the owner and organizer of the Hillsboro Python Machine Learning Meetup. In his spare time, he does complex data analysis using Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence technologies and Python Data Ecosystem for fun. He has published eight blog papers on this subject.

His favorite Bible verse is: “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible”. Matthew 19:26.