Oct '25: Our work 'Class-Dependent Miscalibration Severely Degrades Selective Prediction in Multimodal Clinical Prediction Models' was accepted at Machine Learning for Health Symposium ML4H 2025!!; Jul '25: Presented our work on 'Uncertainty-Aware Multimodal AI for Respiratory Shock Detection' at IEEE EMBC 2025; Jun '25: Presented 'Uncertainty-Aware Foundation Models for Trustworthy Chest X-ray Report Generation' at the CHIL Doctoral Symposium and 'Uncertainty Quantification for Machine Learning in Healthcare: A Survey' at CHIL 2025 at UC Berkeley; May '25: Presented 'Uncertainty-Aware Multimodal AI for Trustworthy Clinical Decision Support' at SAIL 2025 in Puerto Rico; Oct '24: Finalist at the NYUAD GradSlam with the 3-minute pitch 'Improving the Future of Clinical Diagnostics'; Dec '23: First official poster presentation 'Informative Priors Improve the Reliability of Multimodal Clinical Data Classification' at ML4H in New Orleans; Jul '23: Gave a tutorial session on 'Open Source in Healthcare: Industry & Academia' at the Bumblekite ML Summer School in Healthcare & Biosciences, ETH Zürich; May '23: Presented 'Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Healthcare: Open Challenges and Future Perspectives' at the Trustworthy ML for Healthcare Workshop at ICLR in Kigali, Rwanda.
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant, Clinical AI Laboratory, NYU Abu Dhabi; CS Global PhD Fellow.
Education
PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Dual Master's degree in Mathematics and Informatics Data Science (MIDS), Université de Paris Cité; Bachelor's degree in Mechatronics Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM).
Background
Research interests: multimodal learning, vision-language foundation models, uncertainty quantification for clinical applications. Professional field: Computer Science and Engineering. Brief introduction: Currently a PhD candidate at New York University Tandon School of Engineering, and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Clinical AI Laboratory, NYU Abu Dhabi.
Miscellany
Born and raised in Mexico, lived in France, Germany, Latvia, Japan, Belgium, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. Curious about the world, science, culture, and different languages.