I am a final-year PhD student at UC Berkeley in BAIR co-advised by Trevor Darrell and Dan Klein. I am currently a 2025 Summer Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI advised by Robert Trager. I am excited to be working on topics focused on AI governance for the capacitation of LATAM and the Global South.

Prior to Berkeley, I spent a year working with Zeynep Akata in the Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab through the support of a Fulbright Student Research grant. I received my bachelor’s degree in computer science from UT Austin, and was fortunate to get introduced to research by Ray Mooney and Qixing Huang.

Through my technical research, I aim to contribute to the understanding of how intelligent systems form concepts and abstractions necessary for high-level reasoning, starting from sensorimotor input. Work in compositionality, abstraction, and embodied cognition is of great interest to me.

I am proud to come from the navel of the moon 🇲🇽

Community

I am passionate about contributing to efforts working to diversify the AI community and make it more equitable. Currently, I am the Practicals and Hackathon Chair for SALA. I was most recently a co-organizer of RIIAA 6.0 held in Quito, Ecuador. Previously, I was on the board for RIIAA and on the practicals organizing team for KHIPU. These are Latin American AI conferences and schools aimed at catalyzing the usage/development of AI in Latin America by forging connections between the Latin American and global AI communities.