Tokens from my real brain:

I'm curious by nature and love to inspire others, that's why I bring papers from research to demos in no time. I am a mix between applied research and community building. Before NVIDIA I was at IBM Research on Quantum computing, where the project I made for the hackathon for fun, ended in a patent and with me working in that amazing lab in forests of Yorktown, New York.

Later, some people at OpenAI published GPT-2 as a repo, and I built a website around it during the first days, so people can ask questions, making a kind of "ChatGPT" before ChatGPT (I think it was the first GPT online worldwide!), I bought a NVIDIA Jetson NX, put it inside, and this indirectly brought me to work at NVIDIA! So this is still my motto, play with things on the research phase, and make something!

And this is exactly what I do now at NVIDIA, playing with research (GR00T, Cosmos, Newton, Mujoco Warp, Isaac Teleop, etc.) [Will add all the keywords at the end], and creating demos around use cases that can inspire communities of developers, researchers, partners or enterprises.

I was also active in the academic area, as professor and leading the Technology Lab of IE Business School (ranked #1 in the world by the Financial Times during most of my time there), I built the WOWroom, an immersive demo space that positioned the business school worldwide (this project won the Reimagine Education Award by Wharton in 2018). I teach several clases in international MBAs, and IE also gave me its Teacher Excellence Award in 2017 and 2018.

Earlier, I co-authored the MalariaSpot paper in JMIR, where we used crowdsourcing to count malaria parasites in real medical images with results comparable to expert microscopists. It currently has 118 citations in OpenAlex.

This mix of research, teaching, community and demos is basically who I am. Give me a paper, a new model or a strange piece of hardware and I will probably try to turn it into something people can see, touch and learn from.