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Academic

Experience

A timeline of positions, education, and fellowships.


01

Positions

2023–present

Graduate Researcher

MIT, Laboratory for Nuclear Science · Cambridge, USA

Built Bayesian, multi-fidelity emulators for ab initio nuclear structure (VS-IMSRG) with full uncertainty quantification. Bayesian calibration and Shapley sensitivity of chiral EFT couplings. First laser-spectroscopy measurements of charge radii near the proton drip line. Large-scale calculations on HPC (SubMIT, ORNL); DAQ design and radioactive-molecule experiments with Harvard and Caltech.

2025

ML Research PhD Intern

VISA

Data and AI Teams. Published at ACM ICAIF and poster at’25,

2022–2023

Researcher, CMS Collaboration

CERN, Vanderbilt University · Geneva / Nashville

b-tagging and anomaly detection for the luminosity detectors; data pipelines for the BRIL system. Beyond-Standard-Model dark-matter studies at the LHC.

2021–2022

Leader of Data Science Team

Guane Enterprises · Colombia

Joined as a machine learning engineer while an undergraduate and was promoted twice within two years, ultimately leading the data science team at Colombia’s most innovative startup of the period. Left the role to take up research with the CMS Collaboration.

2022

Research Intern (Mitacs)

University of British Columbia · Vancouver, Canada

Atomic Cluster Expansion methods and symmetry-conserving models, including representations for non-compact groups.

2019–2022

Research Assistant

EIA University, Universidad de Medellín · Colombia

Neutrino oscillation phenomenology at DUNE and scalar dark-matter models. Geometric methods for particle reconstruction; physics-informed solvers for the Schrödinger equation.


02

Education

2023–present

PhD in Physics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, USA

Laboratory for Nuclear Science, García Ruiz group. Nuclear structure across theory, computation, and precision laser spectroscopy at FRIB.

2019–2023

BSc in Physics, with Honors

EIA University · Envigado, Colombia

GPA 4.9 / 5.0, top of class.

2017–2018

Diploma in Astrophysics

Universidad de Antioquia · Medellín, Colombia