CV

Education

• Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2021
• M.S. in Computer Science, University of Central Florida (UCF), 2016
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), 2007

Research Experience

• Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Fall, 2023 - Present)
• Post-doctoral Researcher, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Fall 2021 - 2023)
• Summer Research Intern, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Summer 2021)
• Graduate Research Assistant, UIUC (Fall, 2016 - Spring, 2021)
• Summer Research Intern, Ecole Polytechnique, University of Paris-Saclay (Summer, 2015)
• Junior Research Assistant, International Potato Center (Fall, 2012 - Spring, 2014)
• Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, PUCP (Spring, 2012 - Spring, 2013)
• Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, PUCP (Spring, 2009 - Fall, 2011)

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Introduction to Electronics (ECE100) - Spring, 2018
  • Optical Remote Sensing (ECE468) - Spring, 2019
• Teaching Assistant at the University of Central Florida
  • Robot Vision (CAP4453) - Spring & Fall, 2015
• Instructor at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
  • Digital Signal Processing (IEE352) - Spring, 2012

Honors & Awards

• Vela Fellowship from Los Alamos National (2021)
• Shun Lien Chuang Memorial Award for Excellence in Graduate Education from UIUC (2021)
• Young Scientist in the International Team on Earth’s Exosphere and its Response to Space Weather led by Hyunju Connor at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) (2021)
• Yuen Tze Lo Outstanding Graduate Research Award from UIUC (2020)
• Awarded 1st Place in the Student Poster Competition at the NSF-CEDAR conference (2018)
• William J. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award for graduate studies (2014)
• Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Scholarship (fully funded scholarship for five years) (2001)

Academic Service

• Reviewer for the following Journals: Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (Elsevier), Geoscience, and Remote Sensing Letters (IEEE GRSL).