- Published multiple papers including 'Feasible Learning' (AISTATS 2025) and 'On PI Controllers for Updating Lagrange Multipliers in Constrained Optimization' (ICML 2024)
- First last-author paper 'Balancing Act: Constraining Disparate Impact in Sparse Models' accepted at ICLR 2024
- Delivered talks at multiple international conferences such as ICML 2024, ICLR 2024, NeurIPS 2025, etc.
- Released version 1.0.0 of the Cooper library
- Served as area chair for workshops at NeurIPS 2025
Research Experience
- Doctoral researcher at Mila and Université de Montréal
- One of the lead developers of Cooper, an open-source library for non-convex constrained optimization in PyTorch
- Speaker or organizer at multiple international conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS
- Visiting researcher at Meta, working on scalable adaptive optimization methods
Education
- PhD, Université de Montréal and Mila, supervised by Simon Lacoste-Julien, partially supported by an IVADO PhD Excellence Scholarship
- MSc in Artificial Intelligence, University of Amsterdam, supervised by Patrick Forré, graduated in 2018
- BSc in Mathematical Engineering, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin
Background
Research interests include constrained optimization problems, adaptive optimization, equivariant deep learning, geometric information theory, federated learning, and applications of algebraic geometry to machine learning.