about me
hello! my name is juan
I am a senior year student at New York University Abu Dhabi. I am interested in user experience, data analysis, and language technology. I like pursuing tough questions, spending long hours in hard problems, and the satisfaction of building things. I think data can be beautiful and can make enable us to make bold, impactful decisions.
I've had the opportunity to do many things as a student. I've worked on analysing how large language models can distinguish different levels of literary Arabic, helped build an investment app for the MENA region, helped develop a product that detects violence on video streams (and fought people on camera to test it), built websites for synthetic biology teams, student competitions, events, digital library services, and most of all, for fun. I've analyzed literary language in science fiction, made an interactive game about medieval villages, thrown bots at websites, tried to improve course registration at NYU, simulated computer networks, analyzed sentiments on Twitter, and built models of cities in traffic simulators.
I'd also like to think of myself as a traveller, a writer, and an explorer. I like tennis, maps, old buildings, fruits, the sea, film cameras, pets (...)
quick factsheet:
- born: bogotá
- based: bogotá then pune but now abu dhabi
- education:
- New York University Abu Dhabi, BA Computer Science (minors in Applied Math and Arabic), class of 2024.
- Mahindra United World College of India, IB, class of 2020.
oversharing and flexing:
- i have fought wildfires.
- i've hitchhiked on the back of motorcycles and lorries , but never normal cars.
- i'm not bad at all at tennis.
