Abril Corona-Figueroa, PhD

ML Engineer @ BIDMC | Durham University, ex-VIViD

Hello!

My work spans vision and language generative models for healthcare applications. I pay close attention to data dimensionality and feature representation when developing deep learning architectures. Specifically, my research includes learning 3D representations from incomplete 2D medical imaging, and more recently, LLMs to identify medical adverse events.

I have a PhD in Computer Science from Durham University advised by Dr. Chris G. Willcocks and Dr. Hubert P. H. Shum. Prior to this, I pursued a B.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering from the Higher School of Computing of The National Polytechnic Institute, where I was advised by Prof. Marco A. Barranco-Jimenez. My undergraduate thesis Prototype for Embryonic Heart Rate Monitoring received the Best Thesis Award among other 73 thesis.

Before joining Durham University, I visited Eastern New Mexico University as part of a study abroad schorlarship, advised by Dr. Hamid Allamehzadeh to pursue coursework in Electronics Engineering Technology, and collaborated in a research project to control a solar-powered golf cart via voice recognition. I also took elective courses from the M.S. Computer Science program at the Computing Research Center - IPN.

Outside research, you can find me hitting the gym, listening to podcasts or audiobooks. I also love comedy and tacos.