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Education

Jan 2026 – present

PhD in Computer Science

Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Color understanding in multimodal models. Supervised by Alexandra Gomez-Villa.

Jan 2024 – Nov 2025

M.Sc. in Engineering

Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia · GPA 4.9/5.0

Thesis: Integration of foundation models for automatic animal identification.

Feb 2018 – Dec 2023

B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering

Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia · GPA 4.16/5.0

Thesis: Audio vs. visual approach to monitor the critically endangered species Atlapetes blancae: developing deep learning models with limited data.

Research experience

Jan 2026 – present

Researcher

Universidad de Valencia, Spain

Generative models and vision science. Supervised by Jesus Malo.

Jul 2025 – Aug 2025

Visiting Research Scholar

CinfonIA, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Wildlife image segmentation. Supervised by Pablo Arbelaez.

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025

Research Intern

Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

Domain adaptation for biodiversity monitoring. Supervised by Jhony H. Giraldo.

May 2024 – Nov 2025

Researcher

SISTEMIC Research Group, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

Foundation models for wildlife monitoring, within a project on forest transformation in Colombia based on acoustic analysis.

Apr 2021 – Nov 2023

Junior Researcher

SISTEMIC Research Group, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

Machine learning for monitoring Atlapetes blancae.

Teaching

Feb 2024 – Dec 2025

Teaching Assistant, Computer Science I

Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
Mar 2021 – Dec 2023

Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Digital Electronics

Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

Publications

See the publications page for the full list with links and BibTeX.

Skills

Research areas

Domain generalization and adaptation, foundation models, multimodal learning, graph neural networks, wildlife monitoring

Programming

Python, C/C++, MATLAB

Libraries

PyTorch, PyTorch Geometric, OpenCV, Hugging Face Transformers

Tools

Git, LaTeX, Inkscape, Weights & Biases

Languages

Spanish (native), English (professional working proficiency)