cv
This page is a comprehensive CV. For a one-page resumé you can download the PDF available above.
General information
| Name | Lenin Pavón A. |
| Supercomputing Fellow | |
| 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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2021.08 - Present Coyoacán, México
BSc. in Applied Mathematics
Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, México
Scientific Computing
- Parallel Programming
- Computational Linguistics
- Introduction to Complex Systems
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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
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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
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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
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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
- 2025.03.10
Travel and Accommodation Grant for KHIPU 2025
KHIPU 2025
Travel and accommodation grant for taking part in KHIPU 2025 at Santiago, Chile.
- 2024.02.06
Travel and Accommodation Grant for the 9th Oaxacan School for Mathematics
UNAM Oaxaca
Travel and accommodation grant for making a presentation at UNAM Oaxaca.
Certificates
| Toolkit for mental health promotion in teaching: guIAR for teaching | ||
| CIGU and Faculty of Psychology, UNAM | 2025-04 |
| The Teaching Portfolio as a Tool for Learning and Self-assessment | ||
| Faculty of Medicine, UNAM | 2025-04 |
| Socio Cultural Evaluation of AI | ||
| KHIPU 2025 | 2025-03-11 |
| Intro to Machine Learning with Jax | ||
| KHIPU 2025 | 2025-03-10 |
| Training workshop for the use of the Grid UNAM platform | ||
| DGTIC, UNAM | 2025-01-20 |
| Skills development for management and leadership in education | ||
| CEIDE, UNAM | 2025-01 |
| Management of emotional hardships in the university classroom: guidelines for teachers | ||
| CEIDE, UNAM | 2025-01 |
| 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 |
| Shell Utilities and Programming | ||
| 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 |
| GNU/Linux systems administration | ||
| DGTIC, UNAM | 2023 |
Publications
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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.