Experience

  1. JAE Intro Research Fellow

    Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
    • Identified challenges in explainability techniques applied to the state-of-the-art deep learning models for phylogenetic trees.
    • Studied graph-based encodings for phylogenetic trees to predict key parameters and presented my results at the MCEB Congress.
    • Participated in the XVII scientific marathon as a co-author of the presentation “AI and its capacity to understand the generation and extinction of species”.
    • Supervisor: Isabel Sanmartin.
  2. Research Fellow

    AI+DA Research Group
    • Conducted a comprehensive literature review, focusing on the application of AI and Large Language Models to enhance learning and educational methods.
    • Learnt about the science of learning through research articles and the books Make it Stick and Ultralearning.
    • Supervisor: Alejandro Martín.
  3. Intern Data Scientist

    MÁSMÓVIL Chair
    • Utilised advanced models (Transformers, XGBoost, and ensemble methods) for churn prediction using an imbalanced dataset.
    • Applied Bayesian optimisation and genetic algorithms for hyperparameter optimization using a custom metric to adapt model selection to the company’s needs.
    • Created data analysis reports for data stored in multiple tables and more than one thousand columns in total. Some of them included visualizations with t-SNE.

Education

  1. M.Sc. Machine Learning (ongoing)

    University College London
    Fully funded by “La Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434). The fellowship code is “PFA25-02258F”.
  2. B.Sc. Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

    Polytechnic University of Madrid

    GPA: 94% (best academic record award & 13 honor grades).

    Thesis: Solving the Job Shop Scheduling Problem with Graph Neural Networks: A Customizable Reinforcement Learning Environment.

    Tutor for incoming students during the first semesters of 2021 and 2022.

  3. ERASMUS Exchange Program

    Poznań University of Technology

    GPA: 97.4%

    Courses included:

    • Computational Intelligence
    • Robotics
    • Advanced Natural Language Processing
    • Decision Analysis
    • Data Visualisation
    • Polish
  4. ATHENS Exchange Program

    Ecole des Ponts ParisTech

    Coursework:

    • Uncertainty Quantification in Numerical Simulations
Awards
“La Caixa” Foundation fellow
"La Caixa" Foundation ∙ May 2025
I was between the 100 students selected for the “La Caixa” Foundation Postgraduate Abroad Fellowship among more than one thousand candidates from Spain and Portugal.
First Ascent Spain participant
Bending Spoons ∙ October 2024
Classified among more than one thousand candidates to participate in the trip to Milan organized by Bending Spoons.
Second place in WhiteBox’s Datathon
WhiteBox ∙ May 2024
Achieved 2nd place in a Kaggle-style competition focused on vehicle valuation modelling, leveraging xgboost on real-world data provided by DataMarket, with less than 3 hours to clean data, engineer features, and train the model.
Winner of Google’s Developer Student Club Datathon
Google Developer Student Club ∙ February 2023
Questionnaire on a dataset with 30 questions. First place with maximum score.
Winner of Kaggle-like competition about extracting characters from CAPTCHA images
Polytechnic University of Madrid ∙ January 2023

It was part of the Machine Learning II course and had two phases: a preparatory phase, and an in-person phase.

  • Used a convolutional vision transformer (ResNet + transformer encoder)
  • Used Weights&Biases for experiment tracking
  • Followed the project template suggested in the Cookiecutter Data Science template
Competitive Programming
Polytechnic University of Madrid ∙ May 2022

Selected to represent the Polytechnic University of Madrid in the Ada Byron contests of 2021 and 2022.

Sample-based Learning Methods Certificate
University of Alberta (via Coursera) ∙ October 2021
Part of the Reinforcement Learning specialization. Audited the other courses.
Languages
100%
Spanish
90%
English