Curriculum Vitae

Education, appointments, honors, talks, teaching, and service. The PDF includes the full publication list.

Education

Ph.D., Quantitative and Computational Biosciences

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Advisor: Prof. Ankit Patel

B.Sc., Biology

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Advisor: Mirko Zimic · GPA 4.0

Appointments

Swartz Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Mentor: Prof. Jess Cardin

Wu Tsai Fellow

Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Mentors: Prof. Jess Cardin & Prof. David van Dijk

Honors & Awards

Swartz Postdoctoral Fellowship
Best Talk & Travel Award, Champalimaud Research Symposium
Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellowship
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Travel Award
Best Poster Award, Quantitative and Computational Biosciences PhD Retreat

Baylor College of Medicine

Fondo de Movilidad Estudiantil (travel award)

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

Publications

14 papers and preprints, including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, TMLR, Nature Machine Intelligence, PLOS Computational Biology, and PNAS.

Full publication list

Invited Talks

Neuro-cybernetics at Scale, Champalimaud Research Symposium

Lisbon, Portugal

Spatiotemporal modeling of cortical cholinergic and calcium signaling dynamics across learning

Foundation Models in Neuroscience Workshop, COSYNE

Montreal, Canada

BrainLM: A foundation model for brain activity recordings

Shared Visual Representations in Human & Machine Intelligence Workshop, NeurIPS

New Orleans, LA

Local convolutions cause an implicit bias towards high frequency adversarial examples

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, MIT

Cambridge, MA

Local convolutions cause an implicit bias towards high-frequency adversarial examples

Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Conference

Houston, TX

A simple visual task demonstrating the benefit of lateral or feedback connections

Conferences & Courses

COSYNE — poster

Lisbon, Portugal

Spatiotemporal modeling of cortical cholinergic and calcium signaling dynamics across learning

NeuroNex Workshop — poster

San Diego, CA

A simple visual task demonstrating the benefit of lateral or feedback connections

Brains and Bits: Neuroscience Meets Machine Learning Workshop, NeurIPS — poster

Barcelona, Spain

Recurrent computations for pattern completion

VI Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience (LASCON)

University of São Paulo, Brazil

Project: Synchronization differences in a network memory model of CA3 with progressive neuronal removal

Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

Washington, D.C.

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant — Introduction to Deep Learning

Rice University, Houston, TX

  • Graduate-level course
  • Designed course material (slides and exercises)
  • Taught a lecture on recurrent convolutional networks
Teaching Assistant — Calculus & Differential Equations

Department of Exact Sciences, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

  • Univariate Calculus
  • Multivariate Calculus
  • Differential Equations

Mentoring & Service

Mentor and Research Supervisor, Research Experience for Peruvian Undergraduates (REPU)
Organizer, LatinX in AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2020
Neuromatch Academy

Developed the mentor–project matching algorithm

Serendipity
  • Head of the Department of Data Analytics (2020 – present)
  • Head of the Department of Partnerships (2018 – 2020)
  • One-on-one mentoring and lectures for students in the program (2017 – present)