Welcome
I was born in Riohacha, a city in the vibrant northern Caribbean region of Colombia. I attended high school at Divina Pastora, located just below the blue building seen in the top right of the image below:
Image from Wikipedia.
Surrounded by the sea and immersed in subjects like Mathematics, Philosophy, and Natural Sciences, I developed an early fascination with fundamental questions—ultimately leading me to pursue Physics in Bogotá.
I completed my Bachelor’s degree at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2008 and continued with a Master of Science, supervised by Jereson Silva Valencia. I defended my thesis summa cum laude in the summer of 2010 and continued research at the university until mid-2011.
In the fall of 2011, I began a PhD in Physics at Columbia University in New York City as a Fulbright fellow, under the supervision of Andrew J. Millis. I defended my thesis in the fall of 2018, having also worked as a teaching fellow at Columbia and as an adjunct professor at New Jersey City University, Hunter College (CUNY), and Yeshiva University.
Since spring 2019, I have been a Research Scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), where I transitioned from theoretical physics to applied machine learning research.
My current research interests include:
- Generative models in computer vision
- Scene understanding (2D/3D)
- Reinforcement learning
- Time series prediction
- Anomaly and novelty detection
- Multisensor fusion
- Uncertainty estimation
- Explainable AI