Student Affiliate

Department: Institute for Applied AI Innovation

Ivan received a B.S. from the University of Texas at El Paso in Computer Science with a concentration in Software Engineering and minors in Mathematics and Film Studies. He is currently pursuing a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence with an interdisciplinary thesis that investigates the rat brain using image registration models.

Ivan has previously worked in the “Research Analytics, Intelligence, and Data Support” team as a Research Assistant; he has also worked as a Teacher Assistant at the Computer Science Department and the Biological Sciences Department, as a camp instructor in the AI and Cyber Summer Camps at the CS Department, as a Research Assistant at the Interactive Collaboration (VizInC) Research Lab where he worked in visualizing a 120-million-atom model of the Cafeteria Roenbergensis virus (CroV) alongside Frank Osuna and Dr. Chuan Xiao, where he participated and won the “2023 UTEP Visualization & Interactive Collaboration Competition.” He also worked as a QA Assurance Tester at UTEP’s own “Enterprise Computing Center”. He also had the opportunity to have an internship at Microsoft in the Summer of 2021 as well as to work as a Scrum Master at Oriens developing a Warehouse Management System from 2016 to 2019.

Keywords of Expertise: Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience.