Andres Villa
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Andres Villa is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the IVUL lab at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), focusing on AI for Science, Continual Learning, Visual Language Models, and Action Understanding.
Biography
Andres Villa received a bachelor's in Electronic Engineering at Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 2017. Moreover, he received his PhD in Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University in 2023 in Santiago, Chile. Before joining KAUST, Andres was a teaching assistant for undergraduate and graduate students in the Engineering department at Pontifical Catholic University in Chile from 2019 until 2024. He was teaching subjects such as Deep Learning and AI Applications (VQA, Image Captioning, and Video Understanding). Andres was a Research Intern at IVUL from June 2021 to June 2022.
Research Interests
Andres focuses on Computer Vision, Continual Learning, Video Understanding, and Visual Language Models.
Professional Profile
Service Contributions
- Service to the Discipline or Profession
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Program chair for organizing the "LatinX in AI" Workshop in CVPR 2024, 2024
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Awards and Distinctions
- ANID Scholarship, Chilean Government, 2019
- Honorable Mention “Graduate of Excellence”, Universidad del Norte, 2017
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Computer Science, Pontifical Catholic University, Chile, 2023
- Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universidad del Norte, Colombia, 2017
