Summary
Andres Mendez-Vazquez is a research-focused machine learning and AI scientist with a PhD from the University of Florida and over a decade of experience bridging academic research and industry applications. Based at Cinvestav Guadalajara since 2009, he works on classical and quantum deep learning, tiny/efficient neural models for NPU deployment, and curriculum development for new AI courses. His portfolio includes applied projects for the U.S. Army, Mexican Air Force, Oracle, IBM, NXP and multiple startups, spanning medical OCR/NER, hotel/property matching at million-sample throughput, and LLM-based medical agents with quantization and LoRA fine-tuning. He blends low-level algorithm design (feature selection, similarity engines, parallel indexing) with practical production engineering—optimizing memory, latency and distributed pipelines on AWS/GCloud. An adjunct collaborator with Tec de Monterrey’s AI Hub, he pairs rigorous academic methods with hands-on systemization to make research-ready models run on minimal hardware.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan
Postdoctoral Research, Computer Science, Postdoctoral Research, Computer Science at University of Florida
English, Spanish