Summary
Saul Juarez is a third-year Astrophysics with Computer Science student at UIUC who blends hands-on ML/AI engineering with a strong interest in quantum information science and finance applications. He has delivered measurable impact at Caterpillar—boosting classification accuracy by 15%, cutting manual effort by ~80%, and reducing ingestion errors and crashes through data-quality and MLOps improvements. Experience ranges from Qiskit development at IBM to astrophysics research on exoplanet habitability, reflecting a rare mix of applied ML, quantum software, and domain science. Saul is pursuing graduate study in AI/ML and Quantum Information, and he’s already optimizing model time/space complexity in production contexts. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs rigorous error handling and logging with curiosity-driven research.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelors, Astrophysics with Computer Science, Bachelors, Astrophysics with Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
English, Spanish, Russian