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