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Cali, Co

Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Evaluating the technical feasibility of the ideas coming from AI Fund's portfolio startup companies during the early building stage.

Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

Throughout my extensive years of experience within this job role, I lead over five research projects totalling more than $200K, including funds from GEO-Microsoft and Colombian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation. I serve as referee for numerous top international journals on image processing and machine learning. I know the art of composing curricula for courses on mathematical modelling and programming encompassing pattern recognition, digital image processing, and digital signal processing.My significant contributions for this role:♦ Trained and influenced more than 30 undergraduate, master, and doctoral students.♦ Successfully published 50+ articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings with keen emphasis on image processing and machine learning.

Cali

Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

As a CFO and Co-founder, I deliver and propose training and education routes to users of job searching website through data-driven analysis and natural language processing (NLP). I oversee development of retail app for automatic evaluation of commercial strategies on shelves (planograms). Moreover, I steer product development and client engagement. In addition to all that, I develop sustainable relationships and partnerships with companies and start-ups.Some of my prominent achievements for this role are mentioned below:♦ Raised $17.000 funds from Colombian Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MinTIC) program Retos 4.0-2021.♦ Achieved automatic matches between CVs and job offerings with 0.70 mean average precision (MAP)-P@5.Attained consistent recommendations (0.2 coefficient of variation) for users of job searching website about keywords and professional profile length.

Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

In my most recent job role, I accelerate development of ML models into production by implementing Azure ML workflows. I know the effective ways of steering machine learning models development to important global mining company. Furthermore, I enhance machine learning algorithms performance through automatic geophysical feature selection. I promote client engagement.My only accomplishment during this tenure includes:Led 96% reduction in number of mining sites to be inspected by developing deep learning based models supporting automatic mining data analysis.

Austin, Texas Area

The role of image quality assessment in tasks such as (i) video object tracking (VOT) (ii) pan sharpening (PS) (i.e. merging high-resolution panchromatic and lower resolution multispectral imagery to create a single high-resolution color image) and (iii) super-resolution (SR) has not been researched extensively from the natural scene statistics (NSS) perspective. For instance, even though there are several well-known VOT algorithms and measures that quantify the quality of PS and SR images, there has been little work done on analyzing the effects of video quality on VOT and the statistics of PS and SR images and associated distortions. In this research stay my work focused on developing quality-aware VOT, opinion-aware (OA) and opinion-distortion-unaware (ODU) image quality analyzers whose quality prediction power exceeds that of other state-of-the-art PS and SR quality models in regards to correlation with human subjective judgments. These results confirm the relevance of NSS for improving computer vision tasks such as VOT and non-reference quality evaluation of image enhancement procedures such as PS and SR.

Quebec, Canada

Quebec, Canada

Electronics Engineer, Electronics Engineering

Ph.D In Electrical Engineering