Activities
Updates on research, teaching, leadership, and milestones.
2026
November 2–5, 2026: Awarded the Paul DeBruyn Memorial Student Travel Grant from the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) to attend its 51st Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Orlando, FL. The conference theme is “Sea Level Impacts: Navigating Challenges Together.”
October 15, 2026: Selected as the Geotechnical Research Subcommittee Representative on the NSF NHERI Graduate Student Council.
October 6, 2026: Presented the CAIT group’s poster on sediment-placement modeling at Lighthouse Center at the ASBPA National Coastal Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
August 11–13, 2026: Participated in NHERI SPARC 2026 at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), University of Texas at Austin, supported by a travel grant.
July 13–17, 2026: Participated in the 13th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (13NCEE) in Portland, Oregon, supported by the Vilas and Ingrid Mujumdar Registration Grant from EERI.
June 3, 2026: Selected as a member of the ASCE Geo-Institute Technical Committee on Embankments, Dams, and Slopes (EDS).
June 1, 2026: Selected as a volunteer for the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s Virtual Earthquake Reconnaissance Team (VERT).
June 2026: Began a Graduate Assistant position at the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) at Rutgers University, conducting research in geotechnical engineering, natural hazards, and infrastructure resilience.
May 18, 2026: Awarded the GeoEngineers, Inc. Scholarship through the ACEC Research Institute Scholarship Program.
April 29–May 1, 2026: Participated in Structures Congress 2026 at The Westin Boston Seaport District in Boston, Massachusetts, supported by an SEI Futures Fund Student Scholarship.
March 29–April 2, 2026: Received the Michael E. Argent Memorial Scholarship from NASTT and attended the 2026 No-Dig Show in Palm Springs, California.
2025
September 1, 2025: Received a graduate fellowship from the Rutgers School of Engineering and began an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
July 15, 2025: Selected for the Fulbright–SENESCYT Foreign Student Program by the Comisión Fulbright del Ecuador (award not utilized).
2024
November 27–29, 2024: Presented “Stochastic Prediction of Nonlinear Structural Response Using Deep Learning Neural Networks” at the 1st International Civil Engineering Congress in Cuenca, Ecuador.
June 1, 2024: Appointed Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Cuenca, teaching calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations during 2024–2025.
2023
October 27, 2023: Earned a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the School of Engineering at the University of Cuenca, Ecuador.
October 21, 2023: Presented research on geodynamic susceptibility in two micro-watersheds in the Marianza sector at the Ibero-American Congress “The University and the Construction of Social Equity”, held during the University of Cuenca’s II Bienal de Vinculación in Cuenca, Ecuador.
2022
March 25, 2022: Graduated from the sixth cohort of the Vanguardia Honors Program at the University of Cuenca.
