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
PhD Suma Cum Laude Award
BCBL
Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Fellowship
Alberta Innovates
Best Work & Suma Cum Laude Merit Award
ISMRM 32nd Annual Meeting
PhD Fellowship
Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Magna Cum Laude Merit Award
ISMRM 29th Annual Meeting