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Education

• 2020: PhD in Mathematical Engineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
• 2016: MSc in Mathematical Engineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
• 2012: MSc in Mathematical Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
• 2010: BSc in Mathematics, Autonomous Mexico State University.

Research experience

• Sep 2025 - Apr 2027: Postdoctoral Researcher in NLP and Graph Representation Learning, Cardiff University.
• Feb 2024 - Apr 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher in Scalable Spectral Clustering, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics.
• Nov 2020 - Jan 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher in Graph Signal Processing for Biomedical Data, University of Edinburgh, School of Engineering.
• Feb 2014 - Sep 2015: Industry and Government Data Science Researcher, National Institute of Educational Evaluation (INEE).
• Jun 2020 - Oct 2020: Researcher in Spectral Methods on Graphs, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT).

Skills

• ML and experimentation: Python, PyTorch, CUDA, Hugging Face, Jupyter.
• Data and analysis: NumPy, Pandas, R, MATLAB, Statistical modelling.
• Applied domains: NLP, Graph ML, Graph signal processing, Decision-support dashboards.

Publications

• 15 peer-reviewed papers.
• Selected venues include ICML, ICASSP, EUSIPCO, IEEE TSIPN, and Linear Algebra and its Applications.
• Signed Laplacians for Constrained Graph Clustering. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
• Isospectral Graphs via Spectral Bracketing. Linear Algebra and its Applications, 2024.
• Graph-based Permutation Patterns for the Analysis of Task-related fMRI Signals on DTI Networks in Mild Cognitive Impairment. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024.
• Dispersion Entropy for Graph Signals. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 2023.
• Permutation Entropy for Graph Signals. IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, 2022.

Teaching

• 12+ years teaching.
• 250+ contact hours.
• Three MSc co-supervisions.

Awards

• 2022: Alan Turing Institute Post-Doctoral Enrichment Award, The Alan Turing Institute.
• 2021: Professional Development Grant, Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK).
• 2021: Outstanding Thesis Award, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
• 2020: Teaching Excellence Award, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
• 2018: Researcher Mobility Grant, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
• 2017: Pre-doctoral Research Training Scholarship (PIPF), Department of Mathematics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
• 2020: Doctoral Lecturer Accreditation, ANECA.