about

I am a data scientist and economist with 5+ years of experience developing data-driven solutions across industries. Curious and versatile, I am a problem solver who integrates insights from diverse fields and communicates effectively.

Projects

Inter-American Development Bank·Built an LLM-based system to detect and categorize structural reforms from news articles in Latin America·2024

NODO Research·Automated transcription and qualitative analysis workflows using WhisperAI and custom LLM tools, cutting costs and time·2025

ETH Zurich – SECO·Created a fair and explainable recommender system for Switzerland's public employment service·2024

UCL·Built and deployed a language model to detect remote work in job ads, widely cited and used·2022

Teaching

NLP in Economics·Banco de la República, Colombia·August, 2024

Large Language Models and Machine Learning for Unstructured Data·IESE Business School·June, 2024

Unstructured Data in Empirical Economics·Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financiero (CEMFI)·September, 2023

Machine Learning for Textual and Unstructured Data·IESE Business School·June, 2023

Unstructured Data in Empirical Economics·Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financiero (CEMFI)·September, 2022

Research

"Large Language Models in Economics" (with Elliott Ash and Stephen Hansen), New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2024).

"Tracking the Reform Process from Newspaper Data" (with Stephen Hansen, John Leon-Diaz and Rafaela Bastidas) (2025).