Doctorate in theoretical physics from UNAM and a postdoctorate in complex systems at C3-UNAM. Since 2016 I have led machine learning and operations research projects with government agencies and public institutions in Mexico, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile and El Salvador, and before that built and ran data science teams in three startups and two banks.
This page carries the positions, the training, and the work worth reading first. The complete CV is available on request.
Positions
Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública, Tecnológico de Monterrey — 2020 to present
Research Professor and Head of the Data Science and AI Centre (Centro de Ciencia de Datos e Inteligencia Artificial, CCD) since 2025; Director of Research and Faculty of the School from 2020 to 2025. Founded the CCD in 2023; it carries ML work from pilot to production, including its governance, explainability and monitoring. Projects have covered case management and domestic violence risk for the Zacatecas prosecutor’s office, pharmaceutical logistics, port and terminal operations, school siting in El Salvador, and nationwide 5G planning.
Independent consulting — 2025 to present
Fractional CTO work for AI startups, machine learning advisory for early-stage ventures, and legal operations automation with language models and agentic workflows.
DSaPP, University of Chicago, and DSSG at Carnegie Mellon and the Alan Turing Institute — 2016 to 2022
Lead and senior machine learning researcher, and engineering manager. Led or contributed to twenty data science projects across six countries: emergency medical services placement, school dropout prevention, diabetes screening, HIV care retention, homelessness prevention, housing safety, inspection prioritization, police early warning, suicide lifeline routing, pollution enforcement, urban mobility and transport equity. Co-developed Triage, a framework for developing and operating ML models that government and nonprofit programs have since adopted, and contributed to Aequitas, a fairness auditing toolkit.
ITAM — 2013 to 2020
Researcher and Director of the MSc in Data Science, the first graduate program in data science in Mexico; on leave from 2017 to 2019 while at the University of Chicago. Founding director of the Centro de Ciencia de Datos, 2019 to 2020.
Open Intelligence, Datank and Sm4rt Predictive — 2011 to 2017
Co-founder and CTO of Open Intelligence, co-founder and chief of machine intelligence at Datank, and lead data scientist at Sm4rt Predictive Systems. Built production data products adopted by agencies and consultancies, and at Sm4rt stood up a bank’s first fraud data warehouse, which cut detection time from weeks to under one week and reduced the rule set by roughly ninety percent.
Education
| Years | Qualification | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2010–2012 | Postdoctoral researcher, complex adaptive systems | Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, UNAM |
| 2006–2009 | PhD, theoretical physics | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| 2003–2006 | MSc, theoretical physics | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| 1998–2001 | MSc, electrical engineering and mechatronics | CINVESTAV-IPN |
| 1995–1998 | BEng, electronics and control theory | Universidad Regiomontana |
Selected work
- Logistics and infrastructure. Terminal and port optimization (Mexico, ITESM); pharmaceutical logistics (ITESM); emergency medical services placement (Cincinnati, UChicago); school siting (El Salvador, ITESM); nationwide 5G design (El Salvador, ITESM); urban mobility (Seattle, UChicago).
- Health and social services. Proactive diabetes screening (Chicago, UChicago); HIV care retention (Chicago, UChicago); vaccination outreach (Mexico, CMU); social program targeting for SEDESOL (Mexico, UChicago).
- Education. School dropout prediction and social program optimization (El Salvador, UChicago/DSSG); citizen request routing (Mexico, UChicago).
- Housing and homelessness. Rental assistance prioritization (Allegheny County, CMU); rough sleeper service matching (United Kingdom, Alan Turing); roof damage remediation targeting (Baltimore, CMU).
- Public safety and justice. Police early warning systems (Charlotte, San Francisco, Nashville, UChicago); case triage with explainability and domestic violence risk prevention (Zacatecas, ITESM); suicide lifeline routing (CMU).
- Environment and labor. Pollution enforcement (New York State, UChicago); workplace safety inspections (Chile, UChicago); transport equity (West Midlands, Alan Turing); fostering agency inspections (United Kingdom, Alan Turing).
Also
Invited as an expert on AI regulation by the Mexican Senate and Chamber of Deputies in 2025 and 2026. Endeavor Global Entrepreneur, 2014. Preprints and software are listed under research and software.