erika sánchez-femat

PhD student in artificial intelligence at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. I work on deep learning and image processing, currently applied to medical imaging.

research

My research spans three areas:

deep learning
Design, training, and evaluation of neural network architectures, including multimodal models that integrate imaging and tabular data.
e.g. convolutional networks, attention-based fusion, PyTorch
image processing and computer vision
Methods for detection, segmentation, classification, and quantitative feature extraction from images.
e.g. medical imaging (mammography, X-ray), microscopy, embedded vision for autonomous vehicles
applied machine learning
Development and deployment of machine learning systems, including data pipelines, experiment tracking, and cloud infrastructure.
e.g. credit risk modeling, data quality, MLflow, AWS, Docker

My doctoral research focuses on medical image analysis for breast cancer, with an emphasis on mammography. A list of publications is available on Google Scholar.

experience

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2023–2025 Assistant professor and researcher Instituto Politécnico Nacional Research and development of machine learning and deep learning models for computer vision.
2022–2023 Senior data scientist SoFi Development of credit risk models based on statistical methods and principles of fair and explainable AI.
2020–2022 Senior data scientist TrackChain Development of the initial versions of the platform's core algorithm, as well as the data pipelines and data quality processes used across teams.
2019–2021 Senior research engineer Barcelona Supercomputing Center, HPAI group Development of applied deep learning and data science research projects in collaboration with PhD students and researchers, on high-performance computing infrastructure.

research stays

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Oct–Dec 2025Universidad Militar Nueva GranadaBogotá, Colombia
Dec 2019–May 2021Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)Barcelona, Spain

conferences

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2026ARTIIS 2026, International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability (upcoming)
2026ICECET 2026, International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies
2025ISCMI 2025, International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence
2025ARTIIS 2025, International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability

education

yearsdegreewhere
2024–2027PhD, Artificial IntelligenceUniversidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
2021–2022MSc, Artificial IntelligenceINFOTEC
2012–2017BEng, Computer ScienceInstituto Politécnico Nacional

stack

codePython, PyTorch
methodsdeep learning, image processing, computer vision, machine learning, statistical analysis, NLP
infraAWS, MLflow, Docker
roboticsROS, sensor integration
languagesSpanish (native), English (C1), French (B2), Catalan (A2)