My research explores the intersection of AI and healthcare, aiming to develop innovative solutions for clinical and medical challenges. Key areas of interest include:
Neurosymbolic Programming for Healthcare: Developing advanced AI models that integrate symbolic reasoning with neural networks to enhance medical diagnostics and treatment planning.
Digital Phenotyping and Mental Health: Utilizing mobile sensing and network analysis to gain insights into mental health conditions such as schizophrenia, aiming to provide personalized and effective interventions.
Healthcare Data Science: Analyzing large-scale healthcare data to uncover patterns and improve patient care through predictive analytics and personalized medicine.
To learn more about my research interest, here is a perspective paper my team and I wrote, and here is a talk I gave recently summarizing it.
I am fortunate to be the project manager of the multidisciplinary NSF expeditions in computing project: Understanding the world through code led by Prof. Armando Solar-Lezama. Our goal is to advance artificial intelligence and programming languages research for scientific discovery.
I also lead an initiative for artificial intelligence in Latin America.
Check out the neurosymbolic programming for science seminars I have been hosting as part of our NSF expeditions in computing initiative.
I am organizing the first workshop on computational advances for scientific discovery and interpretability at MIT 2024, please join us: https://scientificdiscovery.mit.edu/
Highlighted Research:
Computer Science
- Neurosymbolic Programming for Science (Neurips 2022)
- Lemma – Bootstrapping High-Level Mathematical Reasoning with Learned Symbolic Abstractions (Neurips 2022)
Neuroscience
- Pattern Recognition of Deep and Superficial Layers of the Macaque Brain Using Large-Scale Local Field Potentials (MIT News) (Cognitive Computational Neuroscience)
- Automatic Methods for Cortex-Wide Layer Identification of Electrophysiological Signals Reveals a Cortical Motif for the Expression of Neuronal Rhythms (Cognitive Computational Neuroscience)
Mental Health
- Counterfactual Explanations of Clinical Alerts in Schizophrenia using Digital Phenotyping (working paper)
- Individual Behavioral Insights in Schizophrenia: A Network Analysis and Mobile Sensing Approach (EAI PervasiveHealth 2023)
Engineering and Computer Science
Featured Projects:
Fairness in algorithmic decision-making
Mental Health
- The Governance of AI in Digital Healthcare for a Post-Pandemic World Requires Multistakeholder Partnerships - AI governance 2020 - Obsevations of 52 global experts
- Senses and Art - (MIT News)
Digital healthcare
- The Intersection of Digital Health and Equity (The Economist)
- Reducing waste in health systems: Towards higher value in health (The Economist)
Latin America
- Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Latin America (Book Download) | Presentation (MIT Media Lab and CSAIL)
- Global AI Agenda: Latin America (MIT TechReview)
Education
- Education as a Tool for Prevention: Addressing and Countering Hate Speech (UNESCO)
- La lucha contra la Xenofobia (UNESCO)
Academic Journey:
- Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT
- Postdoctoral Research, Institute for Medical and Engineering Sciences at MIT
- Postdoctoral Research, Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT
- PhD Research, University of Manchester (PhD thesis here)
- Graduate Research (Masters) - University of North Texas (Msc thesis here)
- Undegreaduate Research - Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico