Academic record

Curriculum vitae

Education, research experience, teaching, awards, professional service, and technical expertise.

Education

2018 — 2023

Bachelor's degree in Geology

Universidad Industrial de Santander

2024 — 2026

Master's degree in Geophysics

Universidad Industrial de Santander

Research experience

2025-07 — 2026-05

Junior Geologist - Researcher

Universidad Industrial de Santander

Researcher on Project 8091, developing physics-guided deep-learning methods for joint gravity, magnetic, and magnetotelluric processing and inversion, and on Project 4619, integrating agrogeophysics, artificial intelligence, and citizen science for ecosystem sustainability.

2025-01 — 2025-12

Geologist

INGEOSUR

Analyzed and modeled geophysical data; built 3D geological models of geothermal areas in southern Colombia; and implemented neural networks for interpolation, adaptive filtering, image enhancement, inversion, and magnetotelluric processing and inversion.

2024-02 — 2025-07

Junior Geologist - Researcher

Universidad Industrial de Santander

Contributed to Project 3925 on mathematical and computational modeling for seismic image enhancement in emerging Colombian basins using domain adaptation, numerical geological modeling, and machine learning.

2024-11 — 2024-12

Geologist

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Supported a marine hydrocarbon-indicator project through multitemporal processing and interpretation of synthetic-aperture radar imagery and integration with marine geology and geophysics.

2024-08 — 2024-12

Geologist with Machine Learning Experience

INGEOSUR SAS

Reviewed machine-learning methods for oil-seep extraction from sea-surface SAR imagery, developed convolutional segmentation models, and produced oil-seep maps and geometric characterization.

2023-05 — 2023-12

Junior Geologist

GEO 3 S.A.S

Prepared hazard and geotechnical zoning studies, processed vertical electrical sounding data, and implemented bivariate statistical methods in Python for landslide-hazard zoning.

2012-09 — 2023-05

Junior Geologist and Geology Assistant

Corporación para el Desarrollo Ambiental Colombiano (CORDEAM)

Processed seismic-refraction data, prepared geophysical reports, and contributed GIS and heuristic methods to land-use planning and landslide-hazard studies. Roles and dates are reported as listed in the author-provided CV.

Funded research projects

Project 3925

Mathematical and computational modeling for seismic image enhancement in emerging Colombian basins using domain adaptation

Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Extensión, Universidad Industrial de Santander

Project 8091

New computational technologies for the joint processing and inversion of gravity, magnetic, and magnetotelluric data using physics-guided deep learning for multicriteria characterization

MINCIENCIAS-ANH

Project 4619

Reconciliation of land-use practices and ecosystem sustainability through agrogeophysics, artificial intelligence, and citizen science

Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Extensión, Universidad Industrial de Santander

Selected peer-reviewed publications

2026

Imaging-Guided Pattern Optimization for Seismic Acquisition Geometries Design With Deep Learning

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

2025

Poststack seismic data denoising via dynamic guided learning

The Leading Edge

2024

Porphyry-type mineral prospectivity mapping with imbalanced data via prior geological transfer learning

Gondwana Research

Teaching & thesis supervision

2026 — Present

Supervisor: Velocity model estimation through physics-guided unsupervised deep learning

School of Geology, Universidad Industrial de Santander

Student: Kevin Gabriel Tarazona Balaguera · In progress

2025 — 2025

Co-supervisor: Geological fault segmentation in noisy seismic images using convolutional neural networks

School of Geology, Universidad Industrial de Santander

Student: Álvaro José Ascanio Sánchez · Completed

2022-01 — 2022-12

Organization of Python workshops for geosciences

SEG Student Chapter UIS

Awards

2024-12

Second place nationally, Datos a la U competition

MinTIC / Government Digital Directorate

Professional activities

2022-01 — 2022-12

Student chapter board member

Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), UIS Student Chapter

Organized workshops on Python applications for geosciences and activities in near-surface geophysical processing and interpretation.

2022-01 — 2023-01

Student chapter board member

Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, UIS Student Chapter

Organized conferences, courses, field trips, and workshops related to mineral deposits.

Skills

Machine learningDeep learningGeophysical inversionMineral prospectivity mappingGeospatial analysisField geologyMagnetotelluricsSeismic data processingScientific programming

Programming languages & software

PythonTODOJupyter NotebookArcMapVisual TopoGemPy

Languages

Spanish · NativeEnglish · Proficiency level not specified

Certifications

2022-08

Artificial Intelligence for Oil and Gas Using Python

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

2021-08

Técnicas de Machine Learning aplicadas a la predicción mineral con Python

MINEXFIELD