Hola! I am Jefferson Hernandez, a PhD student in Computer Science at Rice University, working in self-supervised learning for multimodal data and reasoning in Large language models under the supervision of Prof. Vicente Ordonez at Vislang Lab.
I am currently a Research Intern at Meta Reality Labs working with Ishwarya Ananthabhotla. I previously interned at Adobe Research working with Kushal Kafle. I have also colaborated with Ruben Villegas on self-supervised learning for video data.
Prior to this, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from ESPOL (top 1% of the class), where I worked with Prof. Andres G. Abad on machine learning and computer vision. I also worked as a research assistant at INARI Lab on applications of computer vision to retail. I have also shortly worked as a Computer Vision engineer at adaviv.
I am interested in computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning. I am particularly interested in test-time-training for LLMs and self-supervised learning for images, text, video and audio. As a PhD student, I am always eager to collaborate with other researchers. If you are interested in working with me, feel free to reach out to me via email.