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.
news
May 2025 | I’m serving as a reviewer for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics ![]() |
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Jan 2025 | I obtained my PhD degree!! ![]() ![]() |
Oct 2024 | I’m serving as a reviewer for Nature Communications Engineering ![]() |
Jun 2024 | Our paper received the Best Paper Award by the CVPR 2024 Workshop DCA in MI 2024! ![]() |
May 2024 | I’m serving as a reviewer for BMVC 2024 ![]() |
Apr 2024 | I received the CVPR 2024 DEI Travel Award for our paper ![]() |
Apr 2024 | Our paper Repeat and Concatenate: 2D to 3D Image Translation with 3D to 3D Generative Modeling got accepted at the CVPR 2024 Workshop DCA in MI 2024! ![]() |
Feb 2024 | I’m serving as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing ![]() |
Jul 2023 | Our paper got accepted at ICCV 2023! ![]() |
Jul 2023 | I’m serving as a reviewer for BMVC 2023 ![]() |
Apr 2022 | Our paper MedNeRF got accepted at EMBC 2022! ![]() |