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  - course: PhD in Systems Engineering
    institution: Boston University
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  - course: MEng in Systems Engineering
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    year: 2020
  - course: BSc in Computer Science
    institution: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
    year: 2014
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    institution: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
    year: 2014

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I am a recent PhD graduate from [Boston University](http://www.bu.edu), where I obtained my PhD in Systems Engineering in 2020 from the [Division of Systems Engineering](http://www.bu.edu/eng/departments/se/). There, I worked in the [BU Robotics Laboratory](http://sites.bu.edu/robotics/). In 2014, I obtained a BS degree in Computer Science from the [Polytechnic School](http://www.uam.es/ss/Satellite/EscuelaPolitecnica/es/home.htm), as well as a BS degree in Mathematics from the [College of Science](https://www.uam.es/Ciencias/Home.htm), both part of the [Autonomous University of Madrid](http://uam.es/UAM/Home.htm).

My research centers around the development of a framework to automatically synthesize and verify physical systems, specifically those modeled by partial differential equations, with constraints expressed in a formal, but user-friendly, language. To this end, I employ tools and techniques from formal methods, temporal logics, optimization, machine learning and control theory.

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