About Me
I didn’t take a straight path to tech, and sabes que, that’s my biggest 🏋🏽♀️advantage.
I grew up in Cuenca, Ecuador 🗺️ before my family moved to New Jersey, and somehow ended up at West Point, then MIT, then Microsoft. Along the way I’ve worked at NASA through an internship, led 🪖soldiers in the US Army from Korea to Texas, published ML research on disaster response, and now I help enterprise companies implement frontier 👾AI at scale.
At MIT, I studied how technology actually gets used by real people in crisis, travelling to Puerto Rico in response of the 2019 hurricanes, and applying those lessons to product design and machine learning applications. At the Department of Defense, I ran analytical studies that shaped decisions at the highest levels of national security (nothing I can share publically, but the stakes were real). Now at Microsoft, I work with major enterprises, including heavily regulated financial institutions, to move from AI curiosity to AI implementation, responsibly and at scale.
Outside of work, I write about what’s actually happening in AI, on my 🔗 Medium page. I also research bias detection in algorithms and work on STEM outreach programs for the next generation through organizations like Women in Technology and Rosie Riveters.
My background spans military operations research, policy, applied machine learning, and enterprise AI architecture. Across all of it, my 🦸🏽♀️ superpower is the same: designing for human judgment under uncertainty, helping people and organizations make better decisions when the answers aren’t obvious.
Si se puede.
🎓 Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge, MA
👩🏽🎓M.S. Mechanical Engineering, advisor: Professor Maria Yang
👩🏽🎓M.S. Technology & Policy (Institute for Data, Systems and Society)
🥋 MIT Kickboxing Team
United States Military Academy, West Point — West Point, NY
👩🏽🎓B.S. Mechanical Engineering, with Honors, top 4%
🥊 West Point Women’s Boxing Team
📜 Certifications
| Certification | Issuer |
|---|---|
| Azure AI Engineer Associate | Microsoft |
| Cloud Digital Leader | |
| Azure AI Fundamentals | Microsoft |
| Applied Data Science Program | MIT |
| Generative AI: Introduction & Applications | Coursera |
| Python for Data Science, AI & Development | IBM / Coursera |
📝 Publications
Evaluation of Digital Volunteers using a Design Approach
ISCRAM 2019. Research on how digital volunteers contribute to disaster response coordination and what motivates sustained participation. 🔗 Read my MIT Thesis