fun fact: I started programming with p5.js, and this donut.c remake was my first cool project.

Cristobal Lillo

Avid math and CS guy. Really trying to learn more about stochastic models, machine learning, game theory, and more.

Professional Experience

University of Miami Apr 2025 — Present

Research Assistant, Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing

Developing a multi-model fusion framework for kidney cancer segmentation using self-attention. Built ETL pipeline for DICOM MRI scans and scaled training across 4 L40 GPUs with PyTorch DDP. Third author on forthcoming publication.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science

Guiding 500+ students through labs and office hours for Computer Programming II, teaching data structures, algorithms, and OOP in Java and Python. Automated grading workflows by refactoring legacy Python 2.7 scripts.
Bonsai Applied Computations Group Feb 2026 — Present

Quantitative Analyst

Bonsai is a UM, student-led think tank with collaborations spanning both research and industry. Member part of the Genomics and Quant groups.
Examedi Summer 2024

Software Engineer Intern

Interned at Examedi (YC S21 medtech startup), developing internal tooling using BS4 and regex to streamline onboarding for clinics and independent practitioners. Performed geospatial analysis on transaction data to identify underserved regions in Santiago with high patient demand and excessive practitioner travel times.
SmartUp Winter 2025

Software Engineer Intern

Briefly worked to help augment LLM tooling in internal chats, utilizing the openAI SDK to integrate plotly.js into their Next.js frontend and helping migrate to streaming packets from the completions API.