I received a B.Sc. in Physics (2005) and pursued studies of M.Sc. in Physics (2007), both from the National University of Colombia. Later I moved to Spain where he obtained an M.Sc. in Nanotechnology (2009) and a Ph.D. in Computational Materials Science (2013) both at the University of the Basque Country. After three years of postdoctoral research (2013 - 2016) at Aalto University (Finland) where I researched the optical and structural properties of DNA interacting with metallic nanoparticles at a quantum scale, I switched my research interests towards the area of Machine Learning, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence. From August 2017 until 2019, I joined Arcada as Researcher and Lecturer. In January 2020, I was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Big Data Analytics. Since 2022 I'm also the degree programme director of the Master in Big Data Analytics. In addition, I'm also a Research Associate with the Hanken School of Economics (Helsinki, Finland) through the joint AI research initiative AILab@ Arcada & Hanken and a member of the RiskLab Finland research group (https://risklab.fi/.