Other cool stuff

I was founding General Chair of the International Meeting for Artificial Intelligence and its Applications (RIIAA.org), which has had 6 editions in Mexico and Ecuador

I got a honorable mention at the International Mathematics Olympiad  

I worked with my friend Marco Mascorro on the Arc challenge in the Kaggle competiton developing an ensemble of approaches with LLMs that included inference-time search, CoT traces, program induction, data augmentation, model verification, and active inference. We obtained a silver medal and ended up in place 14th out of 1400+, with less submissions and time than all the top 10 teams.

 I am proud to have organized a fund for student organizations at my university. FOE still has more than 30 intramural organizations

I represented Mexico in the Beijing International Sudoku Tournament in 2011 

I took a sabbatical to play Poker professionally in 2023. I ranked top 10 in Mexico’s Global Poker Index  with winnings in tournaments such as the World Poker Tour, the World Series of Poker, the Latin American Poker Tour, and online at GGPoker. (With friends, we created a pokerbot using Deep Reinforcement Learning for the MIT Pokerbot Competition, funny strategy report)

I play competitive soccer and as captain of FuerzaMexico at MIT Intramurals we won the league twice.

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