CV

A detailed description of my profile with all my experience, education, and hobbies.

General Information

Name Sebastián Aguilera Novoa
Label Physicist - Programmer
Email saguileran@unal.edu.co
Phone (+57) 319 514 0529
Linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/saguileran
Github www.gihub.com/saguileran
Summary A Colombian physicist interested in computational physics, numerical methods, and machine learning ideas applied to bioacoustics.

Education

  • 2015-2023
    Bachelor of Science in Physics (B.S.)
    National University of Colombia, Bogotá D.C.
    • Mathematical modeling.
    • Data creation and analyze from experiments.
    • Object oriented programming (OOP).
    • Some courses
      • Computational physics.
      • Numerical analysis.
      • Advanced simulation methods for physicist.
      • Numerical optimization.
      • Numerical linear algebra.
  • 2012-2013
    Residential Electrical Installation Technician
    Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA), Bogotá D.C., Colombia
    • AC and DC circuits analysis.
    • Design, planning, and installation of residential electricity systems.

Experience

  • 2023.09-now
    Bilingual custom service agent
    Concentrix - Macys campaign
    • Help costumers to place orders online and solve issues related to their orders.
  • 2016-now
    Private professor of mathematics and physics
    Independent
    • Design, prepare and evaluate methodologies to teach math and physics.
    • Teach in person or virtually.
    • Create and evaluate a preparatory course, Aprender, for the saber 11 test applied by ICFES
      • Design and schedule the topics to teach.
      • Design, apply and evaluate the exams.
      • Teach mathematics and physics.
  • 2023.02 - 2023.04
    Research in Molecular Modeling and Simulations
    Internship Program - São Carlos Institute of Physics
    • Set up and contrast Monte Carlo (MC) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of a protein-ligand system to generate structured data (positions, velocities, RMS, etc).
    • Analyze the structured data generated by the MC and MD simulations using Markov model algorithms (lagtime, hidden Markov chains, etc).
  • 2021.06-08
    Summer Research Program
    Electrical & Computer Engineering - University of Delaware
    • Analyze and visualize raw audio data using signal processing, 2-week records from a microphone in a river.

Open Source Projects

  • 2022-now
    Birdsongs
    • A python package to analyze, visualize and generate synthetic birdsongs.
  • 2023.02-2023.04
    Molecular modeling and simulations
    • Study and evaluation of the unbinding kinetics of Mineralocorticoid (MR and MR-S810L) receptor steroid agonist Cortisol (COL), Aldosterone (AS4), and Progesterone (STR) ligands using Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, LiGaMD and LiBELa softwares respectively.
  • 2023.01
    Soundscapes analysis - maad
    • Create code, examples, and documentation of spectral and time trait functions.

Honors and Awards

  • 2023-02
    Awarded Jhoti and Salazar Scholarship
    • São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo (USP)
  • 2022-11
    Second best undergraduate dissertation in physics
    • Departament of physics, National University of Colombia

Languages

Spanish
Native speaker
English
Fluent

Academic Interests

  • Bioacoustics
    • Sound production in animals.
    • Unstructured data creation.
    • Machine learning applied to birdsongs.
  • Numerical methods
    • Physical simulations
    • Algorithms and simulations to solve ODE and PDE.

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Travel ✈️, ride bike 🚲, video games 🎮, recording birdsongs 🐦‍⬛🎙️, independent projection room 🎥, concerts 🏟️, Spotify 🎧, soccer tennis ⚽, beer 🍺.