I am a PhD student in the Social AI CDT programme and a member of the Social AI group at the University of Glasgow under the supervision of Dr. Tanaya Guha and Prof. Fahim Kawsar. My research focuses on exploring the therapeutic potential of music to design personalised health interventions. More specifically, I study how music influences emotional states by analysing peripheral physiological signals and uncovering patterns in spontaneous responses to acoustic stimuli across diverse populations. Likewise, I am interested in unravelling the therapeutic properties of music towards the automatic transformation of songs into their therapeutic versions. The ultimate goal is to integrate multimodal sensors and machine learning to create innovative health and well-being applications tailored to individual needs.

Before joining this PhD programme, I worked on projects in public research centres and the tech startup scene in Mexico. As a research assistant at the Centre for Scientific Research and Higher Education in Ensenada, I embarked on my academic journey and delved into diverse areas relevant to Social AI. This included affective computing, computational paralinguistics, machine learning, virtual agents, and interpretable AI. Engaging in these fields helped me develop essential skills in programming, supervised learning, and working with different data modalities.

If you find my work interesting, feel free to reach out! Stay tuned for updates on my project as they unfold.

Academic Updates

• [09/2024] Attended ACII 2024 conference held in Glasgow, UK.
• [09/2023] Paper titled “Toward assessment of human voice biomarkers of brain lesions through explainable deep learning” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.
• [09/2023] Joined the Social AI CDT programme at the University of Glasgow sponsored by the UKRI.
• [09/2021] Paper titled “Automatic children’s personality assessment from emotional speech” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Expert Systems with Applications.
• [09/2020] Graduated from the University of Bristol with Distinction.
• [09/2019] Accepted into the MSc Robotics program at the University of Bristol with full sponsorship from the Mexican Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT).
• [10/2018] My first research work tittled “Classification of Barking Context of Domestic Dog using High-Level Descriptors” was accepted to LKE 2018.
• [12/2017] Joined the Centre for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE UT3) as a Research Assistant.
• [06/2017] Completed my degree in Mechatronics engineering at Instituto Tecnologico de Tepic.