Alejandro Lozano

Alejandro Lozano

Ph.D. Candidate (3rd Year)

Stanford University

Biography

I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University generously funded by Arc Institute and advised by Professor Serena Yeung-Levy. My research is dedicated to developing and evaluating multimodal vision-language models tailored to precision medicine, positioned at the intersection of medicine and biology. During my free time, I like hiking around the Bay Area, collecting rocks, and playing guitar.

I hold a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. During my undergraduate years, I had the privilege of being mentored by Professor Isaac Chairez and collaborated closely with Professor David Cruz and Mariana Ballesteros. My research focus during this time was on control theory and applications, precisely non-linear and constrained control design and its applications to medical rehabilitation. I also had the opportunity to work on chemo-informatics with Professors Chris Butch from Nanjing University, Henderson Cleeves from Advance Studies, and Boswell Wing from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Interests
  • Vision-Language Foundation Models
  • Information Retrieval
  • Computer Vision
Education
  • PhD in Biomedical Informatics, 2022-Present

    Stanford University

  • Study Abroad, 2021

    University of California, San Diego

  • BS in Biomedical Engineering, 2022

    Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Stanford University
PhD Candidate
Stanford University
July 2022 – Present California, USA
 
 
 
 
 
MPI-CBG - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Guest Scientist
MPI-CBG - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
June 2021 – January 2022 Dresden, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
University of Colorado Boulder
Guest Scientist
University of Colorado Boulder
July 2021 – October 2021 Colorado, USA
 
 
 
 
 
SASEC SECURITY SYSTEMS
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
SASEC SECURITY SYSTEMS
January 2021 – October 2022 Mexico City, Mexico
 
 
 
 
 
Medical Robotics and Biosignals Lab, IPN
Undergraduate Student Researcher
Medical Robotics and Biosignals Lab, IPN
January 2019 – May 2022 Mexico City, Mexico

Awards

Covered the cost to attend the 2024 PSB conference
Association for Health Learning & Inference
ML4H 2023 Best Thematic Paper Award
Best Thematic Paper Award for Generative AI for Health category
See certificate
Arc Institute
Arc Fellowship
Provides full funding for 5 years to complete a PhD program at Stanford
Instituto Mexicano de la Junvetud
Honorable mention, Youth Award. Category B: Science and Technology
Awarded the maximum recgonition provided by the state of Baja California to young scientists
BEIFI-IPN
Institutional Scholarship For Research Training
Provided Monetary Stimulus for undegraduate reacher trainees (Awarded 4 times)