Research Experience

Quantitative Researcher Intern

Mar 2026 – Present

Moreton Capital PartnersMexico City, México

Architecting multi-agent heuristic systems operating as non-linear layers atop production-level deterministic models to optimize systematic commodity strategies and signal blending. Formulating mathematically rigorous meta-models to map high-dimensional financial datasets, enforcing statistical constraints and regularizers to ensure structural stability and mitigate alpha decay. Bridging stochastic machine learning outputs with classical convex optimization frameworks, integrating agentic signals into multi-horizon risk-parity and regime-aware allocation models.

Multi-Agent SystemsConvex OptimizationSignal BlendingRisk-ParityCommodity Strategies

Lead Researcher — Model-Agnostic Infrastructure for Unstructured Financial Text

Dec 2025 – Present

Working Paper

Formalizing an end-to-end, model-agnostic architectural blueprint for processing high-dimensional, unstructured financial text, ensuring structural invariance against shifting baseline language architectures. Designing a modular data engineering pipeline that decouples stochastic noise-filtering mechanics from downstream deep learning systems, optimizing input embedding spaces to ensure future-proof compatibility. Formulating a novel, domain-specific reward function and objective metric that maps linguistic signal extraction directly to portfolio optimization, independent of the underlying transformer or LLM paradigm.

PythonPyTorchNLPAlpha ResearchLLMPortfolio Optimization

Research Software Developer

Feb 2025 – May 2025

Instituto Via DiseñoQuerétaro, México

Architected a constraint satisfaction scheduling system for a 150+ user campus environment, formalizing combinatorial resource allocation as a CSP and applying backtracking search with constraint propagation to guarantee feasibility under competing institutional constraints. Engineered PostgreSQL indexing strategies that reduced query latency by 40% under high-cardinality constraint evaluations, and surfaced scheduling state through a real-time React visualization layer.

PostgreSQLCSP AlgorithmsReactCombinatorial Optimization

Selected Research & Projects

Hierarchical Commodity Portfolio Construction

Mar 2026

Developed a two-stage backtesting engine for 10 commodity sectors over 162 weekly periods using SLSQP min-variance optimization, achieving max 7.7% annual volatility. Enforced KKT optimality for stable weight constraints and mplemented Ledoit-Wolf covariance shrinkage and a Stage A signal blending / Stage B cross-sector allocation pipeline that reduced Max Drawdown by 15%.

Adj. Sharpe

4.02

Lo (2002)

Calmar Ratio

2.1

Ann. Volatility

≤ 7.7%

Max

Ann. Turnover

83%

PythonSLSQPLedoit-WolfPortfolio OptimizationBacktesting

OrbitGrow: Martian Plant Health Monitoring

Mar 2026

Syngenta @ START Hack — Top 5 Finalist (30 teams)

Engineered a real-time computer vision system to monitor crop health in Martian greenhouses, utilizing AWS SageMaker for autonomous stress detection. Developed a multi-modal data pipeline to process environmental telemetry and spectral imagery, enabling automated nutrient deficiency diagnosis in extraterrestrial environments.

Rank

Top 5

out of 30 teams

Inference

Real-time

Stress Detection

Platform

AWS SageMaker

Data

Multi-modal

Telemetry + Spectral

Computer VisionAWS SageMakerMulti-Modal PipelinesPython

AquaHub: Predictive Drought Modeling & Crowdsourcing

Feb 2026

Originally designed as a predictive ML model for drought patterns in CDMX using hydrological data. Pivoted to a crowdsourced reporting system to bridge data gaps. Designed the data ingestion pipeline to validate user reports against historical meteorological norms.

Accuracy

70% – 85%

5-Day Horizon

Inference

< 500ms

Features

14 indicators

Source

OpenWeather + Crowdsourced

Systemic Risk ModelingData PipelinesCrowdsourcing

Bloomly: Global Bloom Detection System

Oct 2025

@ NASA Space Apps Hack

Engineered a LightGBM-based predictive model leveraging multi-spectral satellite imagery (GEE) and NASA POWER meteorological data. Conducted rigorous dimensionality reduction across 44 distinct ecological indicators to classify global bloom patterns with high precision (AUC/F1 validation).

ROC-AUC

0.72–0.85

F1 Score

0.70–0.82

Features

44 indicators

Source

GEE + NASA POWER

PythonLightGBMRemote Sensing (GEE)

Multi-Agent Simulation

Aug 2025 – Sep 2025

Simulated autonomous agent behavior using Python (Mesa) and Unity to analyze strategic decision-making dynamics. Designed reward-based optimization functions within constrained state spaces, applying Monte Carlo sampling to identify emergent Nash equilibrium patterns.

PythonMesaMonte Carlo SimulationGame Theory