Personal Profile

I started working at the eScience center as a research software engineer and worked on different projects. These provided me with the opportunity to become familiar with domain-specific challenges as well as develop a broad technological view. It also enabled me to build a network of scholars in the Netherlands and abroad.

In my role as Community Manager, I have been involved in the engagement of the center with the RSE community and promoting sustainability of software developed at the center. I have been involved in the creation of the [https://FAIR-software.eu] where we provide recommendations for making software FAIR. I am also one of the core developers of the open source package grlc, which is still actively maintained.

Education

Oct 2007 -- Dec 2010 United Kingdom Ph.D. in Computer Science (University of Exeter)

• : 2D and 3D shape descriptors.
• Research topics: shape description, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition.

Oct 2006 -- Sep 2007 United Kingdom M.Sc. Applied Artificial Intelligence (University of Exeter)

• Graduated with Distinction
• Modules include: Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks, Nature-Inspired Computation, Selected Topics in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Research Methodology and Research Project.

Aug 2000 -- Dec 2004 Mexico City B.Sc. Computer Engineering (Universidad La Salle)

• Graduated with a 9.2 score
• Subjects studied: Computer Programming, Mathematics, Physics, Software Engineering, Database Management, Artificial Intelligence, Accountancy and Marketing.

Employment History

Jun 2014 -- Present ____ Netherlands eScience Center (The Netherlands)

• I started working at the eScience center as a research software engineer and worked on different projects. These provided me with the opportunity to become familiar with domain-specific challenges as well as develop a broad technological view. It also enabled me to build a network of scholars in the Netherlands and abroad.

  Since May 2019 I took the role of Technology Lead and then Community Manager. In these roles I have been involved in the engagement of the center with the RSE community (nationally and internationally) and promoting sustainability of software developed at the center. I have been involved in the creation of the where we provide recommendations for making software FAIR, I coordinate and in coordinating our contributions to guide for reproducible research. I have also been actively involved in the creation of The Amsterdam Declaration on Funding Research Software Sustainability
• Other activities: Member of the works council (OR) until 2020, Organising Software Carpentry courses, co-lead of Special Interest Groups on data management and on Software Sustainability.

Sep 2012 -- May 2014 ____ University of Exeter (United Kingdom)

• I worked on several multidisciplinary projects, applying diverse computational techniques to tackle challenges in diverse scientific domains. Computational techniques included machine learning, image and video processing and statistical data modelling. Projects include: monitoring of cows from video recordings, measuring displacement of structures from photographs, de-noising of microscope images and statistical modelling of large data sets.

Jul 2010 -- Aug 2012 ____ University of Plymouth and C3 Resources Ltd. (United Kingdom)

• C3 Resources Ltd was a growing business which provides energy management solutions for large energy users. As part of their growth strategy, C3 Resources engaged with Plymouth University in a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project.

  My role as a KTP associate was to develop software for automating the energy analysis process. I was responsible for managing the project and conducting research into artificial intelligence techniques for analysis of energy consumption data. This research lead to several conference publications. The KTP Partnership was awarded a Grade A (Outstanding, in the top 5% of all projects).

Jan 2009 -- Jul 2010 ____ University of Exeter (United Kingdom)

• During my Ph.D. I was in charge of workshops for undergraduate and master students, teaching Graphics and Animation (Java 2D API), Modelling and animation (Blender) and Intelligent Image Understanding (Matlab) modules.

Jul 2004 -- Sep 2006 ____ Interalia Digital (Mexico City)

• I was involved in developing e-marketing sites for various regional branches of The Coca-Cola Company: Mexico, Brazil and Latin Centre Division (LCD). In these projects I was leader of a team of 6 developers, in charge of a programming team using several languages: Java, PHP, Javascript, AJAX, Macromedia Flash (Action Script) and was responsible for database design and programming (Oracle and MySQL).

Nov 2002 -- Jan 2004 ____ La Salle University, research centre (Mexico City)

• I worked as a Research Assistant, researching different fields of artificial intelligence and computer security. I was responsible for security and management of Linux systems, provided support in the security analysis of a corporate network, research in cellular automata, neural networks and image processing and participated in national level academic conferences.

May 2002 -- Nov 2002 ____ Xweb S.A. de C.V. (Mexico City)

• Xweb was a company which developed tailored web applications for different clients, among them, the Mexican National House Funding Institute (INFONAVIT). I worked as a Java programmer, developing a small database query functionality, programming in web development (JSP), DB design and DB programming (MS SQLServer) and Help desk.

Research Interests

• Diverse areas of research software engineering: knowledge representation, data management, FAIR software & FAIR data, data visualization, Open Science, Software Sustainability.
• Computer vision: Image processing, shape recognition, image classification, shape description, intelligent image understanding.
• Natural Language Processing: Topic modelling, word embeddings.
• Artificial intelligence: Machine learning, statistical data analysis, natural language processing, evolutionary computing, agent based systems.

Technical skills

• Programming languages: Python, Matlab, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java.
• Database: Mongo DB, Elastic Search, Triple Stores, linked data, relational databases.
• Operating systems: Linux, Windows, MacOS.
• Other skills: Web development, software engineering, application packages.

Membership of relevant organisations

2020 (Co-chair of RDA FAIR for Research Software working group (https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/fair-research-software-fair4rs-wg))

2019 (Core team member of Dutch RSE network (https://nl-rse.org/pages/core-team.html))

2018 (Chair of extit{Advances in eScience for the Humanities and Social Sciences} session on IEEE eScience conference)

2017 (Organising committee member for the WoSSS workshop series (Workshop on Sustainable Software Sustainability (https://wosss.org/))

2016 (Certified Software and Data Carpentry Instructor)

2011 (Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer, Oracle University)

Relevant publications

The following is a list of selected publications. An up-to-date list of research outputs (publications, software releases, datasets, presentations) can be found at: [https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5565-7577].