Resume

• Email: josueortc@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Baylor College of Medicine

Quantitative and Computational Biosciences PhD, (July 2016 – Jan 2022), Houston TX, USA

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

Bachelors in Science, Biology, (March 2010 – December 2014), Lima, Peru

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Patel Lab, Baylor College of Medicine

Graduate Research Assistant, (May 2017 - Jan 2022).

• Training neural regularized model to understand noise and adversarial robustness.

Tolias Lab, Baylor College of Medicine

Graduate Research Assistant, (August 2016 - December 2016).

• Trained Cortically-Inspired models in static visual recognition tasks. In addition, trained these models for prediction of calcium imaging recordings of primary visual cortex.

Kreiman Lab, Harvard University

Research Assistant, (August 2014 - December 2014).

• Used psychophysics, electrophysiology and computational modeling to understand visual recognition in humans. Particularly recognition of partially occluded objects.

Zimic Lab, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

Research Assistant, (March 2011 - June 2016).

• Used Convolutional Neural networks to classify patient/non-patient biomedical images for diagnosis of Pneumonia and Tuberculosis.

SKILLS & INTERESTS

Languages:

Spanish, English

Programming Languages and Deep Learning Packages:

Python, MATLAB, Perl, Tensorflow, Pytorch, Theano