Funded research

Research projects

Publicly and privately funded projects I lead, coordinate or take part in, across academia, industry and government.

1. 2025-2026PINational privateMXN 7,344,663
   OXXO-OptiStore
   Sponsor: Oxxo

   Industry project where I act as lead; we built a pipeline to improve the planogram design of OXXO stores.

2. 2024-2026PINational publicMXN 511,609
   Hardware-aware neural architecture search for improving Spanish large language models
   Sponsor: SECIHTI

   Developing Spanish generative language models using an evolutionary NAS approach — proposing benchmark datasets, a search space, efficient evaluation and search algorithms. Collaboration with IPN.

3. 2026Co-PIInternational publicUSD 1,000,000
   Ciberseguridad e IA
   Sponsor: Agencia de Ciberseguridad de El Salvador

   Developing the research line of cybersecurity in agentic AI; a TRL-4 prototype was built to simulate a secure execution pipeline for government AI agents and models, including an attack simulator.

4. 2025-2026Co-PINational publicMXN 942,956
   Sistema Digital Basado en Inteligencia Artificial para la Intervención Educativa en Niños con Trastorno del Espectro Autista en Tlaxcala
   Sponsor: SECIHTI

   Interdisciplinary project with experts from the School of Government and Public Transformation: a game platform to improve learning for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), incorporating feedback and adaptation via generative language models.

5. 2025-2026Co-PINational publicMXN 882,225
   Narrateca para justicia social
   Sponsor: SECIHTI

   Interdisciplinary project with researchers from the School of Education and Humanities, developing a digital “narrateca” of experiences and testimonies of migrants, the LGBTQ+ community, women with disabilities, and against gender violence. Beyond the platform, a “digital migrant” was built from an LLM+RAG over migrants' testimonies.

6. 2024-2025Co-PIInternational privateUSD 20,000
   AcomParto: Acompañando a las mujeres tras el parto
   Sponsor: CLIAS

   Interdisciplinary project with public-policy researchers; I led the technical team building a platform with a chatbot (“Acomparto”) powered by an LLM with RAG over medical documents and official guidelines to support women during the postpartum period.

7. 2023-2025Co-PINational publicMXN 761,072
   Neural Architecture Search for Image Restoration
   Sponsor: CONAHCyT

   Developing the NAS area to build better super-resolution image-restoration models — search spaces, evaluators and efficient search algorithms.