For ICML 2026 and NeurIPS 2026, I was recognized as a Gold Reviewer and Top Reviewer, respectively, earning free full registration to both conferences! It really pays off to do honest reviews without using AI!

For AISTATS 2022 and AISTATS 2023, I was recognized as a top reviewer! You can find me here and here. After those two years, I am not really sure if they have consistently recognized top reviewers every year (though I have still reviewed, e.g., see here). 

This is a summary of all the journals and conferences I have reviewed for (in many cases, multiple times):

1. Neural Information and Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

2. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

3. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

4. Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL -- workshop)

5. Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL, including The First Workshop on LLM Security (LLMSEC) at ACL 2025.)

6. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP, Industry Track)

7. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

8. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)

9. Conference on Language Modellng (COLM --  two workshops)

10. Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)

11. Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC)

12. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC)

13. Automatica 

14. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data

15. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems

16. IEEE Control Systems Letters

17. Systems & Control Letters 

18. American Control Conference (ACC)

19. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

20. Scientific Reports

I have been very fortunate to mentor graduate students, undergraduate students, and even participate in a high-school summer camp.

• As a postdoctoral scholar at UIUC, I have been mentoring graduate students in the area of machine learning. I am passionate about letting my mentoring go beyond "giving technical feedback about the student's research", and so I am passionate about providing students with advice for a variety of problems to be found in one's personal life in academia and beyond. 

• I mentored a UCSB underrepresented undergraduate student for the California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) on the research topic of "Consensus and Opinion Dynamics".

• I codirected a Computer Science Summer Camp for Santa Barbara High School, California, USA. 

• I gave multiple presentations to college students and high school students in Peru.

Despite the fact that English is the most used language in academia for a global audience, it is still a problem for many people to access new academic knowledge due to their low English proficiency. In response to this problem, if time allows, I will be happy to do Spanish translations of academic or educational texts for nonprofit uses. The only thing I ask for is to give me credit for the translation, so more people know they can have an equal chance of having a translation.