About
I'm a mathematician interested in understanding how AI systems work. My PhD, from the University of Waterloo, is in complex algebraic geometry, and I want to bring its tools (geometry, moduli, stability) to AI safety research, starting with the question of what trained models actually learn.
Before Waterloo I studied mathematics at UNSA in Peru and did a master's at Unicamp in Brazil. Alongside my PhD I trained in data science, and later deep learning, at the Erdős Institute, building models for loan default, drug potency and audio classification in teams of fellow PhDs. Since then I've kept building with machine learning, from fine-tuning language models to co-founding CycleBuddy, a women's health app where users own their data.
I'm open to AI safety research positions, as well as machine learning and data science roles.
Outside work, I like learning about ancient civilizations, writing books and stories, and building side projects like KarmaKitApp and an AI agent marketplace.
- Undergraduate, UNSAArequipa, Peru · accepted through an entrance exam at age 13
- Research abroadIMPA summer school · Simon Fraser University · MathFest poster
- Master's in mathematics, UnicampCampinas, Brazil · Mar 2018 – Mar 2020 · FAPESP scholarship · original results on Weierstrass semigroups
- PhD, complex algebraic geometryUniversity of Waterloo · 2025 · three years as TA
- Erdős Institute certificatesData Science, with distinction (2023) · Deep Learning (2025)
- Founder and builderCycleBuddy · 1st place, EasyA × Consensus Toronto · Gemma Impact award
- Training AI in mathematicsInterested in AI safety research
Awards and grants
- Dec 2025$10,000 Unsloth Prize, Google Gemma 3n Impact Challenge
For Dream Assistant, an on-device assistant for people with speech impairments.
- 20251st place, EasyA × Consensus Toronto Hackathon
For CycleBuddy, a women’s health app where users own their data, with free, science-based education and private tracking. The win came with a $20,000 grant from the Stellar Foundation. I co-founded CycleBuddy and serve as CEO.
cyclebuddy.ca ↗ - 2025Top project, Erdős Institute
For predicting drug potency with graph neural networks.
- 2023Project with distinction, Erdős Institute
For Meow by Meow, a convolutional network that classifies cat vocalizations.
- Nov 2018 – Feb 2020FAPESP master’s scholarship
Research scholarship from the São Paulo Research Foundation for my master’s in mathematics at Unicamp.
- Jan 2016IMPA summer program scholarship
Selected as an undergraduate for the summer program at IMPA, Brazil’s national institute for pure and applied mathematics.
Leadership & mentoring
- Spring 2025Project mentor: Elo ratings and match prediction in professional snooker
Erdős Institute. Mentored a data science team building a machine learning pipeline that predicts snooker match outcomes from Elo ratings, from data scraping and feature engineering to model tuning and reporting for stakeholders.
- 2024Session organizer: Geometry and Representation Theory
Canadian Mathematical Society
- 2023Math olympiad coach
Competitive Kids STEM. Trained gifted students for international math olympiads.
Certificates
- Spring 2025Deep Learning Boot Camp
Erdős Institute, USA
Certificate ↗ - Fall 2023Data Science Boot Camp, with distinction
Erdős Institute, USA
Certificate ↗
- 2024Quantum Computing and Programming
QWorld
- 2024Summer School in Quantum Computing
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- 2024Fundamentals of University Teaching
University of Waterloo
- 2024People-Oriented Project Management
Erdős Institute, USA
Certificate ↗ - 2022Certificate in Online Course Facilitation
Centre for Extended Learning, University of Waterloo
Education
- 2025PhD in Pure Mathematics
University of Waterloo, Canada
- 2020Master’s in Pure Mathematics
University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil
- 2018Bachelor’s in Pure Mathematics
National University of San Agustín (UNSA), Arequipa, Peru