I am a Technology and Geopolitics Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Belfer Center, where I work on topics related to AI governance in the Global South and technical AI governance. I received my PhD in Computer Science at the UC Berkeley AI Research lab, where I was co-advised by Trevor Darrell and Dan Klein. My dissertation focused on topics in grounded language learning, with the goal of developing NLP systems that can effectively connect language to perception and control.

During my PhD, I had the privilege of serving as a visiting PhD Student at the MBZUAI RiTUAL lab, hosted by Thamar Solorio, and as a 2025 Summer Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI, advised by Robert Trager.

Prior to Berkeley, I spent a year advised by 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, Qixing Huang, and Jesse Thomason.

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. To this end, I have contributed to the organization of 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 broader global AI community. I have served as the Practicals and Hackathon Chair for SALA, and as 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.

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