I'm an engineer and musician with a passion for cognitive science, curiosity and creativity. I currently work at Plastic Labs as a founding machine learning research engineer, exploring new ways to provide large language models with high-fidelity user representations.
I spent the summer of 2024 as a research mentee at SPAR, studying causal dependencies between features in sparse autoencoders. Earlier this year, during an intensive 12-week retreat at Recurse Center, I led a pair programming study group on machine learning engineering and mechanistic interpretability, replicating landmark papers and techniques from scratch including GPT-2, PPO, RLHF, GANs and SAEs.
Previously, I spent six and a half years at BMAT Music Innovators, first as a Barcelona-based software engineer focused on music recommendation and music rights data pipelines, and later launching the company’s US team as a direct report to the CEO. For five years, as BMAT’s product and business development lead, I owned the relationships with major labels and publishers, music platforms, rights organizations and key competitors. I led mission-critical initiatives with clients including SoundCloud, ByteDance/TikTok and Warner Music, from discovery and prototyping, through commercial and legal negotiation, to agile product execution and ongoing customer success.
My academic background is in deep learning, signal processing, probability theory and linear algebra. In my undergraduate thesis, conducted during an internship at Telefónica Research, I explored the use of recurrent neural networks for speech detection.
A major through line that connects most of my work is the exploration of the way technology mediates human cognition, curiosity and creativity. This has inspired a number of creative and experimental projects, exploring topics such as AI-enhanced walking meditations and knowledge management; high-tech and low-tech approaches to music discovery; data-driven storytelling around political polarization on Twitter; and experimental musical instruments driven by gesture tracking, cellular automata and tangible interfaces.
I also play music, a lifelong passion, and take pictures, a recent discovery.