I am a Systems Engineer and Graduate Assistant in Robotics at Universidad de los Andes, currently pursuing my Master's in Systems and Computer Engineering (MISIS). I am deeply passionate about advancing the integration of robotics in society and bridging the technological gap in Latin America through cutting-edge AI solutions.
As a member and former leader of SinfonIA Uniandes, I helped lead our team to victory at the RoboCup@Home Social Standard Platform League 2024.
- 🔭 Currently Focusing On: Embodied Agentic AI, Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs), and Action Chunking with Transformers (ACTs).
- 📚 Research Interests: Social robotics, NLP (summarization, RAG), and Computer Vision (YOLO).
- ⚡ Hardware Experience: Unitree G1, SoftBank Robotics Pepper, NAO, and P3DX.
- Robotics: Designing intelligent behaviors for robots in social environments, utilizing ROS 1 and ROS 2 Jazzy for perception, STT, TTS, and autonomous navigation.
- Mobile Interfaces: Developing native Android and WearOS applications to serve as control and monitoring interfaces for robotic systems, leveraging libraries like jros2 built directly on a Fast DDS C++ backend.
- XR Development: Building experiences with Unity, OpenXR, Meta SDK, and C#.
Core Stack: PyTorch, YOLO, GCP, Firebase, Power BI, FastAPI, Docker, and Gazebo.
- Evaluating LLM-Based Autonomous Agent Architectures for Task Execution with Social Robots - Cuevas, D. and Manrique, R. (Applied Informatics, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025)
- Combining Extractive and Generative Methods for Legal Summarization: Tayronas Trigrams at JUST-NLP 2025 - Parada, E. G. S., Almeida, C. M. M., and Alba, D. C. (Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Empowering Justice, 2025)
- SinfonIA Uniandes: Winning Team of the RoboCup@Home Social Standard Platform League 2024 - Cuevas, D. and Rojas, L. (RoboCup 2024: Robot World Cup XXVII, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025)
- Graduate Research Assistant - Robotics Lab | Universidad de los Andes (July 2025 - Present)
- Teaching Assistant - Mobile Robotics | Universidad de los Andes (Feb 2026 - June 2026)
- Robotics Research Monitor | Universidad de los Andes (Jan 2025 - July 2025)
- MSc in Systems and Computer Engineering (MISIS) | Universidad de los Andes (2025 - Present)
- BSc in Systems and Computer Engineering | Universidad de los Andes (2022 - 2025)
- Fundamentals of Deep Learning (Oct 2024)
- Generative AI with Diffusion Models (Oct 2024)
- Building Transformer-Based Natural Language Processing Applications (Apr 2025)
- Building LLM Applications with Prompt Engineering (Apr 2025)
- Rapid Application Development with Large Language Models (LLM) (May 2025)
- Efficient Large Language Model (LLM) Customization (May 2025)
- Applications of AI for Anomaly Detection (Sep 2025)
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jros2 Cellphone Interface Category: Mobile & Robotics 📱🤖 | Tags: ROS 2, Android, Fast DDS, C++
Native Android interface transforming a smartphone into a dual-joystick controller for robotic systems. To ensure high-performance, low-latency communication, this library is built directly on a Fast DDS C++ backend rather than relying on traditional abstraction layers. -
RoboCup@Home - Task Utilities Category: Robotics 🤖 | Tags: ROS, Python, Social Robotics
Core task execution systems and state machines developed for our winning entry at the RoboCup@Home Social Standard Platform League 2024. -
LLM Robot Agents Category: AI & Robotics 🧠🤖 | Tags: LLMs, Autonomous Agents, Embodied AI
Frameworks and architectures for evaluating and deploying Large Language Model-based autonomous agents for complex task execution with social robots. -
LeRobot SO101 MuJoCo Simulation Category: Simulation & AI 🦾 | Tags: MuJoCo, ACT, VLA, LeRobot
High-fidelity MuJoCo simulation environment for the SO101 robotic arm, utilized for fine-tuning Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models like SmolVLA and Action Chunking with Transformers (ACTs). -
SoftBank Robots VR Teleoperation Category: XR & Robotics 🥽 | Tags: Unity 6, OpenXR, Meta Quest 3, ROS
Immersive virtual reality teleoperation interface bridging spatial computing with ROS to control SoftBank robotic platforms. -
WeaROS2 Category: Mobile ⌚ | Tags: WearOS, ROS 2, Mobile Sensors
Smartwatch application designed as a wearable control and monitoring interface, seamlessly bridging smartwatch sensor data with ROS 2 ecosystems. -
Pepper NLP & Vision Utilities Category: AI 🧠 | Tags: NLP, YOLO, Python, Real-time
Comprehensive perception systems for the Pepper robot, combining real-time speech recognition, natural language processing, and YOLO-based object detection.