Academic record
Curriculum vitae
Education, research experience, teaching, awards, professional service, and technical expertise.
Education
Master's degree in Geophysics
Universidad Industrial de Santander
Research experience
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Mathematical and computational modeling for seismic image enhancement in emerging Colombian basins using domain adaptation
Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Extensión, Universidad Industrial de Santander
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
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
2026Imaging-Guided Pattern Optimization for Seismic Acquisition Geometries Design With Deep Learning
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Poststack seismic data denoising via dynamic guided learning
The Leading Edge
Porphyry-type mineral prospectivity mapping with imbalanced data via prior geological transfer learning
Gondwana Research
Teaching & thesis supervision
Supervisor: Velocity model estimation through physics-guided unsupervised deep learning
School of Geology, Universidad Industrial de Santander
Student: Kevin Gabriel Tarazona Balaguera · In progress
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
Organization of Python workshops for geosciences
SEG Student Chapter UIS
Awards
Second place nationally, Datos a la U competition
MinTIC / Government Digital Directorate
Professional activities
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.
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
Programming languages & software
Languages
Certifications
Artificial Intelligence for Oil and Gas Using Python
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Técnicas de Machine Learning aplicadas a la predicción mineral con Python
MINEXFIELD