Dr. Jose Alberto Vazquez is an Observational Cosmologist at the Instituto de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He started his career as a theoretical cosmologist and then slowly moved to statistics, data science, and machine learning. His research focuses on the exploration and analysis of astrophysical and cosmological observations, and on the study of dark energy, dark matter, and inflationary models through Bayesian statistics and scientific computation (Machine Learning). He is a co-author of the SimpleMC code developed for the BOSS collaboration.