Bio

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computer Music, Music DSP, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Logic, Formal Systems, among others.

I grew up in the wild but interesting city of Medellin (Colombia). Since young my curiosity made me always curious about how things work, therefore was easy and natural to fall in love with science and engineering. At the same time, thanks to the powerful progressions and virtuous voices, soon I fall in love with rock and metal and later, with music in general.

In my bachelor in computer science, I had the opportunity of learning about awesome topics as logic, formal systems, computability theory and distributed systems. It is hard to describe how awesome was to study all these crazy ideas and being able to materialize them in computer programs while playing a pair of guitar riffs between chapter and chapter.

At the end of my bachelor, a scholarship allowed me to go to Germany, an old dream for me because of my love for its language, history and music. In the TU Ilmenau, I approved the emphasis line in machine learning of the M.Sc in computer science and researched about evolutionary heuristics.

After an internship in the laboratories of IBM R&D, back in Colombia I continued gaining awesome experiences in the world of research in the HPC centre “Apolo”, the RiSE Group and the Center of Excellence and Appropriation on Big Data and Data Analytics (CAOBA).

At this point, however, there was this feeling of being living a double life, composing and producing songs and playing in bands, it was like being a scientist in the day and a musician in the night (or was the opposite? It’s hard to remember). But the time to write my master thesis came and I finally decided to merge all the passions that I had had until that moment: math, computer science and music.

With the paper entitled “Sequence Generation using Deep Recurrent Networks and Embeddings: A study case in music”, I became a M.Sc in Engineering (machine learning), but also, while making the state of the art, an article from a technology virtual magazine appeared in my email, it was about a company on the other side of the world making music with AI called AIVA, which at that moment I didn’t know, would be my next adventure.

I moved to Luxembourg as Research And Development Engineer in AIVA Technologies, the first AI recognized as a composer by an authors’ right society, where I adapted and reapplied proven methodologies from domains such as natural language processing and Computer vision to music classification and composition problems as well as developed novel solutions to unsolved problems using machine learning.

Since transitioning to freelance work, I have been dedicated to providing specialized services as Senior Software Engineer & AI Consultant. I am driven by a commitment to leveraging my skills to their fullest potential, ensuring that teams I work with become more efficient and capable of achieving their goals. I am always eager to learn new technologies and participate in innovative projects, feel free to contact me if you have one (New york Time/Eastern Standard Time).