Julian D. Santamaria

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the Computer Vision Center (CVC), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, under the supervision of Alexandra Gomez-Villa, where I focus on color understanding in multimodal models. I also collaborate with Jesus Malo at Universidad de Valencia on generative models and vision science. I hold a Master’s degree in Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, both from Universidad de Antioquia. My master’s work focused on the intersection of domain adaptation, wildlife monitoring, and multimodal learning, with a particular emphasis on bridging foundation models and real-world computer vision applications. I have completed research internships at Télécom Paris working on domain adaptation for biodiversity monitoring, and at Universidad de los Andes focusing on wildlife image segmentation. I have been awarded the NVIDIA Academic Grant.

I serve as a reviewer for journals such as IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, and conferences such as NeurIPS 2025 Workshop NPGML and ECCV 2026.