cv

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General information

Name Lenin Pavón A.
Supercomputing Fellow
Email lpavon {at} astro {dot} unam {dot} mx
Url https://leninpa.github.io/
Summary A mexican undergrad working with HPC systems at the Astronomy Institute

Work

  • 2024.08 - Present
    Teacher and Lab Assistant
    Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Responsible of instructional design, evaluation and teaching to groups ranging from 6 students to 50 students.
    • Parallel Programming Lab 2025-2
    • Advanced Linear Algebra TA 2025-2
    • Advanced Probability TA 2025-1
    • Introduction to Probability TA 2025-1
  • 2023.08 - Present
    Supercomputing Fellow
    Astronomy Institute and General Department for Information and Communication Technologies
    High-Performance Computing intern in charge of implementing the researchers' code into the Atócatl cluster and into Grid UNAM.
    • Troubleshooting: Benchmarking and identifying points of failure on HPC clusters with AMD GPUs.
    • Optimization: Improved performance by 50% of a gaussian classifier for studying galaxy composition.
    • Continuous learning: Permanent training in HPC
    • Containers: Used Apptainer and Conda to ensure reproducibility of AI/ML models running on the HPC cluster.
  • 2021.08 - 2021.12
    Teaching Aide
    Mediacenter (Language Lab) of ENP 6, UNAM
    Remote assistant to improve learning outcomes to students using the mediacenter libraries.
    • Python: Implemented an Anki deck made of 347 notes using Python through Web Scrapping (Beautiful Soup)
    • Web Development: Design of an online information manager for students
  • 2021.04 - 2021.06
    Instructor
    Web Development Bootcamp of the ENP 6
    Selected as instructor for the Relational Databases module and the Accessible Web Design module.
    • Relational Databases: Teaching about the design and implementation of relational databases with MySQL to a group of 30 students
    • Web Design: Teaching about the design and implementation of responsive and accesible websites with CSS3 and Bootstrap 4 to a group of 30 students
    • Instructional Design: Writing of fundamental skills, syllabus, bibliography and references. Design and writing of assessment projects and rubrics improving graduation rates
    • Educational Software: Use of Moodle, Zoom, Facebook, Discord, and Minecraft for online assessment and teaching
  • 2020.08 - 2021.08
    Web developer
    General Department for Specialized Technical Studies (DGETE), UNAM
    Web developer part of a 6-person team charged with redesigning the web system used by the whole department.
    • Laravel: Total redesign and optimization of the frontend and backend of the DGETE website using Laravel and JavaScript as shown by the 35 commits and 7637 lines of code changed
    • Databases: Maintenance and update of the database. Troubleshooting for database related issues.
    • Data Processing: Preparation, cleaning, and capture of more than a 1000 entries to a database.
    • Web Design: Design and programming of accesible and user-friendly interfaces
    • Teamwork: Coordination and proactive collaboration with members of all project branches

Education

  • 2021.08 - Present

    Coyoacán, México

    BSc. in Applied Mathematics
    Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, México
    Scientific Computing
    • Parallel Programming
    • Computational Linguistics
    • Introduction to Complex Systems
  • 2020.08 - 2021.05

    Coyoacán, México

    Higher Technical Degree
    Escuela Nacional Preparatoria No. 6, UNAM, México
    Teaching of english as a Second Language
    • Introduction to English Teaching
    • Language Study
    • Classroom Management
    • Teaching Practice
    • Continuous Development and Improvement of the Teacher
  • 2019.08 - 2021.05

    Coyoacán, México

    Technical Degree
    Escuela Nacional Preparatoria No. 6, UNAM, México
    Computing
    • General Use Applications
    • Introduction to Computing
    • Structured Programming
    • Operating Systems
    • Solving Technical and Programming Problems
    • System analysis and design
    • Preventative and Corrective Computer Maintenance
    • Data-driven Programming
    • Event-driven Programming
    • Local Area Networks
  • 2018.08 - 2021.05

    Coyoacán, México

    High School
    Escuela Nacional Preparatoria No. 6, UNAM, México
    Area 1. Physics, mathematics, and engineering
    • Public Speaking
    • Selected Topics in Mathematics

Volunteer

  • 2024.04 - Present

    Faculty of Sciences, UNAM

    Co-founder
    Stochastikós
    Organizer of several activities regarding Probability, Statistics, Data Science, AI, and ML.
    • 25 Year anniversary of the Linguistics Engineering Group, IIMAS
    • Towards Interpretable Representation Learning for Physiological Signals

Awards

Certificates

Toolkit for mental health promotion in teaching: guIAR for teaching
CIGU and Faculty of Psychology, UNAM 2025-04
Socio Cultural Evaluation of AI
KHIPU 2025 2025-03-11
Intro to Machine Learning with Jax
KHIPU 2025 2025-03-10
Mexican NLP Summer School
NAACL 2024 2024-06-14
Introduction to Scientific Programming Bootcamp
Astronomy Institute, UNAM 2024
Fortran
DGTIC, UNAM 2024
OpenMP
DGTIC, UNAM 2024
MPI
DGTIC, UNAM 2024
Introduction to GNU/Linux
DGTIC, UNAM 2023
Python
DGTIC, UNAM 2023
Software Development Tools
DGTIC, UNAM 2023
Computer Architecture
Center for Complexity Science, UNAM 2023
TCP/IP Networks
DGTIC, UNAM 2023
C Programming
DGTIC, UNAM 2023

Publications

  • 2025
    The MaNGA Dwarf Galaxy Sample (MaNDala): stellar profiles and gradients characterization
    The Astronomical Journal
    We derived radial profiles and inner/outer gradients of various stellar population (SP) properties for 124 bright dwarf galaxies, 107.53≤M∗/M⊙≤109.06, from the MaNDala sample, using integral field spectroscopy observations. Given the complex structure of dwarf galaxies, we used four different methods to derive SP radial profiles: two based on concentric elliptical rings, and two exploiting the spatially resolved data. For each method, we applied four approaches to calculate the inner (0≤R/Re≤1) and outer (0.75≤R/Re≤1.5) gradients of: luminosity- and mass-weighted age and stellar metallicity, dust attenuation, Dn4000 index, stellar mass and star formation rate (SFR) surface densities, and specific SFR. While the PSF has a minor impact on the SP gradients, the methodology for characterizing radial profiles significantly affects them. At fixed property, differences in inner gradients from concentric rings methods are ∼0.05-0.1 dex/Re, while outer gradients can reach 0.5-1 dex/Re, relative to the median of all gradients of that property, med({∇}i). Spatially resolved methods yield smaller differences, ≲0.1 dex/Re. For some SP gradients, e.g. ∇SFR, the dispersion among the methods is comparable to med({∇}i). While it is not possible to select a single preferred method for determining SP gradients, we suggest to use med({∇}i) for each SP property. The resulting median age and metallicity suggest that, overall, bright dwarfs experienced moderate inside-out formation, and significant early SF from low-metallicity gas with outward radial migration of old SPs. The derived SP gradients provide strong constraints on feedback mechanisms in dwarf galaxies.

Skills

Mathematics
Linear Algebra
Probability
Programming

Languages

Spanish
Native speaker
English
C2
French
A2/B1
Náhuatl
A1

Interests

NLP
Minoritised languages

Projects

  • 2021.10 - 2021.10
    P6Anki
    Using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage and based on the work of David Bullock, I created an Anki deck designed to minimize the amount of time necessary to learn English.