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Career

· Senior Project Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University2020–
· PhD in Computer Science, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Marí­a2014–2019
· Electronics and Control Engineer, Escuela Politécnica Nacional2007–2013

Publications (18)

Bumblebee: A Path Towards Fully Autonomous Robotic Vine Pruning
Field Robotics · 2021
57
cited
SplatSim: Zero-Shot Sim2Real Transfer of RGB Manipulation Policies Using Gaussian Splatting
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2024
52
cited
Real-time approaches for characterization of fully and partially scanned canopies in groves
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture · 2015
45
cited
A Robust Illumination-Invariant Camera System for Agricultural Applications
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2021
38
cited
Point cloud-based estimation of effective payload volume for earthmoving loaders
2020
23
cited
Visual 3D Reconstruction and Dynamic Simulation of Fruit Trees for Robotic Manipulation
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) · 2020
20
cited
Overcoming the Loss of Performance in Unmanned Ground Vehicles Due to the Terrain Variability
IEEE Access · 2018
15
cited
Reaching Pruning Locations in a Vine Using a Deep Reinforcement Learning Policy
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2021
14
cited
Mapping of Potential Fuel Regions Using Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles for Wildfire Prevention
Forests · 2023
10
cited
Design and evaluation of sound-based electronic football soccer training system for visually impaired athletes
BioMedical Engineering OnLine · 2019
5
cited
Robotic Vision for 3D Modeling and Sizing in Agriculture
2021
4
cited
Assessing the estimation of trawling catches using LiDAR sensor technology
Ocean and Coastal Management · 2018
3
cited
Classifying Agricultural Terrain for Machinery Traversability Purposes
2016
3
cited
Towards Over-Canopy Autonomous Navigation: Crop-Agnostic LiDAR-Based Crop-Row Detection in Arable Fields
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2024
3
cited
Markov Chain Monte Carlo Parameter Estimation for Nonzero Slip Models of Wheeled Mobile Robots: A Skid-Steer Case Study
2021
1
cited
Evaluating Path Planning Strategies for Efficient Nitrate Sampling in Crop Rows
arXiv.org · 2025
Partially Scanned Canopies in Groves
2016
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Mapping with Semantic and Traversability Metrics for Forest Fire Mitigation
2022
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