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applied AIAI adoptionresearch

work & research.

a selected view of the systems, publications, and projects behind my profile — AI products shipped under startup constraints, research with measurable outputs, and tools that make AI more accessible.

publications

research artifacts.

PMLR 2025

Towards an efficient, customizable, and accessible AI tutor

an offline RAG pipeline paired with a lightweight language model to support educational tutoring in low-resource settings.

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CVPR 2023

Modular memorability

a modular computer vision model for video memorability prediction — connecting visual understanding with cognitive performance signals.

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JPSP · 2025

ML-SPEAK

a theory-guided machine learning method for predicting conversational turn-taking patterns from team composition.

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applied systems

where the work met reality.

ML engineer · head of data management

Memorable

built and maintained computer vision models for advertising optimization, then designed the data infrastructure and processing pipeline that enabled 10× storage growth. Memorable was acquired by Reddit in 2024.

external reference
Rice MS data science capstone

NASA navigation assistance

built a two-stage crater detection system for spacecraft localization with record precision and presented the work to NASA engineers in Houston.

— internal work
Universidad Austral

AI, innovation & government

coordinate academic work and applied programming that helps public-sector professionals connect AI foundations with governance, policy, and institutional use cases.

— internal work
selected GitHub work

aligned repositories.

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ConceptGuidedColorization

Expansion on the work from Text2Colors. Using CLIP Embeddings I trained a color palette generator from any text input.

open repository
updated 22-12-2024 · ★ 0

ELEC542-InstructP2P

Analysis on InstructPix2Pix capabilities for handling colorization tasks with open-ended, conceptual prompts.

open repository
updated 30-12-2024 · ★ 0

Minigrid-RL-Agents

Personal project developing Reinforcement Learning agents in the Minigrid environment

open repository
updated 09-02-2026 · ★ 0

quantized-education-v2

Code for AAAI '25 Efficient AI Tutors. Language pipeline designed to integrate a Small Language Model augmented with knowledge retrieval.

open repository