Research Experience

2026

Ontario Tech University · Lee Language Lab

Oshawa, Canada · May 2026 - Present · Supervisor: Annie En-Shiun Lee Ph.D.

Co-authored a Findings of EMNLP 2026 paper on adaptive language sampling; leading its follow-up on when to stop cross-lingual realignment, under review at ARR
Co-developing M2-ALIGN: extending vision-language models to 11 languages while preserving their multilingual reasoning

PythonPyTorchHugging Face TransformersSLURMMultilingual NLP

2025

Universidad de los Andes · Augmented Artificial Intelligence Initiative

Bogotá, Colombia · Jan 2025 - Jun 2025

Designed an LLM-as-judge evaluation architecture that grades student work against rubrics
Built locally deployed RAG systems and custom AI agents for domain-specific research questions

PythonOllamaGemini APIRAGPrometheus

2025

Universidad de los Andes · FLAG Research Lab - A.I. and Machine Learning

Bogotá, Colombia · Jan 2025 - Present · Supervisor: Rubén Manrique Ph.D

Research NLP model enhancement for Spanish medical contexts focusing on NER and text classification
Develop specialized models from scratch and compare them with LLMs using zero-shot and few-shot learning

PythonTransformersBERTSpanish Language ModelsZero-shot Learning

2024

College of Computing and Information Science, Cornell University

Ithaca, United States · Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · Supervisor: Sainyam Galhotra Ph.D.

Designed Data Discovery architecture to explore and modify datasets in various formats
Developed upload and scoring system through semantic search across multiple databases

PythonData DiscoverySemantic SearchDatabase Management