Work

Neuroscience:

  • Cognitive experience alters cortical involvement in navigation decisions.
    Biorxiv Preprint, with Charlotte Arlt, Ningjing Xi and Christopher Harvey, et al.
  • Cosyne Presentations:
    • Cognitive context alters cortical involvement in identical perceptual decisions
      with Charlotte Arlt, Ningjing Xi and Christopher Harvey.
    • Functional organization of posterior cortex during flexible navigation decisions, with Shih-Yi Tseng, Selmaan Chettih, Charlotte Arlt and Christopher Harvey.

  • Data Science:

  • Combatting Digital Influence Operations by State Actors with Nicholas Tallant, Ben Dubow, Andrew Gonzales and Evana Hu
  • Understanding Gender Based Violence (GBV) depiction in online news media using word embeddings with Rukhshan Arif Mian and Caitlin Loftus
  • A natural language processing approach to understanding presidential speeches and executive orders with Lily Grier and Linh Dinh
  • Social Mobility and STEM education: its a complicated story
  • A visual case against the electoral college
  • Towards Interpretable Dimensionality Reduction with Hana Passen.
  • COVID-19 in Mexico: Predicting severe disease outcomes using health
    and socio-economic variables
    with Jessica Ramirez, Oscar Noriega and Luz Stephanie Ramos
  • Visualizing public health indicators along Chicago’s CTA metro system with Charmaine Runes and Hana Passen.
  • About

    Born in Mexico City, currently living in Chicago. I graduated from Boston University in 2017 with degrees in Neuroscience and Economics. Post bacc I worked as a research technician at the amazing Harvey Lab , where I investigated neo-cortical circuits involved in working memory and spatial navigation in mice.

    After two years in neurobiology, I decided to shift gears and went into graduate school in Computer Science and Public Policy. I spent a summer as an intern with the great folks of Paylocity's Data Science Department and currently work as a Data Scientist at Omelas were we defend democracy from digital propaganda.

    Contact

    Email: robalu94@gmail.com

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