Education
2016
B.Sc.
Energy Engineering
2019
M.Sc.
Electronic Engineering
2023
Ph.D.
Engineering
Experience
Professional Experience
2024–Present
Postdoctoral Researcher
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.
Center of Excellence for Generative AI.
Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL). PI, Prof. Bernard Ghanem.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.
Center of Excellence for Generative AI.
Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL). PI, Prof. Bernard Ghanem.
2019–2023
Research Engineer
Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Colombia.
Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Colombia.
2017–2023
Researcher (M.Sc. & Ph.D.)
High Dimensional Signal Processing Research Group (HDSP), Colombia.
High Dimensional Signal Processing Research Group (HDSP), Colombia.
2015
Young Researcher
Ecopetrol, Colombia.
Ecopetrol, Colombia.
Research Visits
2022-2023
Research Internship
Center for Research in Image Acquisition and Processing for Health CREATIS Lab, INSA Lyon & Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.
Lyon, France.
Center for Research in Image Acquisition and Processing for Health CREATIS Lab, INSA Lyon & Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.
Lyon, France.
2022
edu4SDS: 1st Surgical Data Science Summer School
Institute Surgery Guided Par L'image - IHU Strasbourg, France.
Institute Surgery Guided Par L'image - IHU Strasbourg, France.
2021
Research Internship
Cooperative research laboratory in Telecommunications for Space and Aeronautics - TéSA Laboratory, Toulouse, France.
Cooperative research laboratory in Telecommunications for Space and Aeronautics - TéSA Laboratory, Toulouse, France.
2019–2023
Research Collaborator
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse - IRIT Laboratory, Toulouse, France.
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse - IRIT Laboratory, Toulouse, France.
2016
International Summer Research Program
Eight-week summer program offered by the International Office of the University of Guanajuato, Mexico.
Eight-week summer program offered by the International Office of the University of Guanajuato, Mexico.
Teaching
2025
Teaching Assistant
Deep Learning Course for M.Sc. students in Artificial Intelligence.
King Fahad Security College / KAUST Academy.
Deep Learning Course for M.Sc. students in Artificial Intelligence.
King Fahad Security College / KAUST Academy.
Academic Service
2026
General Chair, Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) workshop, CVPR 2026. Denver, USA.
Organizer, KAUST Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2026.
Communications Chair, SoccerNet Datasets & Challenges 2026.
Organizer, KAUST Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2026.
Communications Chair, SoccerNet Datasets & Challenges 2026.
2025
Outreach Chair, Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) workshop, CVPR 2025. Nashville, USA.
Organizer, KAUST Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2025.
Outreach Chair, LatinX in Computer Vision (LXCV) workshop, CVPR 2025. Nashville, USA.
Communications Chair, SoccerNet Datasets & Challenges 2025.
Organizer, KAUST Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2025.
Outreach Chair, LatinX in Computer Vision (LXCV) workshop, CVPR 2025. Nashville, USA.
Communications Chair, SoccerNet Datasets & Challenges 2025.
2023
Outreach Chair, LatinX in Computer Vision (LXCV) workshop:
ICCV 2023 — Paris, France.
CVPR 2023 — Vancouver, Canada.
ICCV 2023 — Paris, France.
CVPR 2023 — Vancouver, Canada.
2022
Outreach Chair, LatinX in Computer Vision (LXCV) workshop, CVPR 2022. Seattle, USA.
2019
Publicity Chair, 2019 XXII Symposium on Image, Signal Processing and Artificial Vision (STSIVA). Bucaramanga, Colombia.
Honors & Awards
2023
Doctoral Thesis with Highest Honors (Laureated Thesis),
"Deep learning algorithms design for medical imaging in computer-aided diagnosis tasks." Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia.
2022
3rd Place Winner, SFR 2021 Artificial Intelligence Data Challenge,
"Data Augmentation in AI at the Service of Rare Tumors",
Société Française de Radiologie, France.
Scholarship Recipient, Surgical Data Science Summer School, Institute of Image Guided Surgery (IHU), University of Strasbourg, France.
Scholarship Recipient, Surgical Data Science Summer School, Institute of Image Guided Surgery (IHU), University of Strasbourg, France.
2017
2nd Place Winner, Bayer Young Community Innovators,
Award-winning project: Spectroscopy, the New Era of Cocoa, Colombia.
National Scholarship for Master's Studies, awarded by MinCiencias, Colombia.
Special Recognition Medal for Research Excellence, Government of Santander, Colombia.
National Scholarship for Master's Studies, awarded by MinCiencias, Colombia.
Special Recognition Medal for Research Excellence, Government of Santander, Colombia.
2016
Academic Excellence in Research,
Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (UNAB), Colombia.
1st Place Winner, National Prize for Energy Efficiency, Colombia Energy Prospective 2050 Project.
Scholarship Recipient, Summer of Scientific Research, University of Guanajuato, Mexico.
1st Place Winner, National Prize for Energy Efficiency, Colombia Energy Prospective 2050 Project.
Scholarship Recipient, Summer of Scientific Research, University of Guanajuato, Mexico.