Experience

Work

June 2024 — Present

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Calgary

Calgary, Canada

Deep learning models for neurological disease prediction and medical image analysis. Scalable HPC pipelines on SLURM. Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Fellowship.

2023 — Present

Early Adopter & Product Advisor

Tana

Remote

Product feedback on AI-powered knowledge management platform. LLM integrations and features.

2019 — Present

Open Source Contributor & Maintainer

tedana, physiopy, ME-ICA

Remote

Core maintainer of tedana (1000+ stars), an fMRI denoising library. Built Rica, pySPFM, and phys2bids. Production-grade Python packages with CI/CD, docs, and community governance.

July 2020

Teaching Assistant

Neuromatch Academy

Remote

ML training (supervised, unsupervised, Bayesian methods). International cohort training.

October 2016 — August 2017

Research Intern

Neuroelectrics

Barcelona, Spain

Data pipelines and QC for 64-channel EEG. Signal processing algorithms (MATLAB to C++).


Education

2020 — 2024

PhD in Machine Learning for Brain Imaging

Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL)

San Sebastián, Spain

Developed novel fMRI deconvolution methods using sparse optimization and multi-echo techniques. Suma Cum Laude. Supervised by Dr. César Caballero-Gaudes.

2017 — 2018

MSc in Biomedical Engineering

Tecnun — University of Navarra

San Sebastián, Spain

Specialized in medical image analysis and signal processing.

2013 — 2017

BSc in Biomedical Engineering

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Barcelona, Spain

Foundation in engineering, mathematics, and biomedical systems.


Awards

Open Science Prize — Trainee Runner-up

The Neuro — Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation

2025

PhD Suma Cum Laude Award

BCBL

2024

Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Fellowship

Alberta Innovates

2024

Best Work & Suma Cum Laude Merit Award

ISMRM 32nd Annual Meeting

2023

PhD Fellowship

Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

2020 — 2024

Magna Cum Laude Merit Award

ISMRM 29th Annual Meeting

2021