Curriculum

Public work

List of publications, conferences and preprints in reverse chronological order.

• [ArXiV 2025] A. Hernández-Cano*, D. Garbaya*, I. Schlag, M. Jaggi. Towards Fully FP8 GEMM LLM Training at scale.

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• [Front. AI 2024] A. Hernández-Cano, Y. Ni, Z. Zou, A. Zakeri, M. Imani. Hyperdimensional Computing with Holographic and Adaptive Encoder.

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• [ArXiV 2023] Z. Chen, A. Hernández-Cano*, A. Romanou*, A. Bonnet*, K. Matoba*, et. al. “MediTron-70B: Scaling Medical Pretraining for Large Language Models”.

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• [DATE 2023] J.R. Rubalcava-Cortés, A. Hernández-Cano, A.C. Pacheco-Tovar, F. Imani, R. Cammarota, M. Imani. “Privacy-Preserving Neural Representation for Brain-Inspired Learning”.

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• [PLoS One 2023] E. Correa-Padilla, A. Hernández-Cano, G. Cuevas, Y. Acevedo-Betancur, F. Esquivel-Guadarrama, K. Martinez-Mayorga. “Modifications in the piperazine ring of nucleozin affect anti-influenza activity”.

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• [ACS Fall 2021] A. Hernández-Cano, J. Naveja-Romero, A. Madariaga-Mazon, K. Martinez-Mayorga. “Molecular de novo design using context-free grammars”.

• [DAC 2021] A. Hernández-Cano, R. Cammarota, M. Imani. “PRID: Model Inversion Privacy Attacks in Hyperdimensional Learning Systems”.

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• [DAC 2021] A. Hernández-Cano, M. Zhou, C. Zhou, X. Yin, M. Imani. “RegHD: Robust and Efficient Regression in Hyper-Dimensional Learning System”.

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• [DATE 2021] A. Hernández-Cano, Y. Kim, M. Imani. “A Framework for Efficient and Binary Clustering in High-Dimensional Space”.

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• [GLSVLSI 2021] A. Hernández-Cano, C. Zhuo, X. Yin, M. Imani. “Real-Time and Robust Hyperdimensional Classification”.

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• [DATE 2021] A. Hernández-Cano, N. Matsumoto, E. Ping, M. Imani. “OnlineHD: Robust, Efficient, and Single-Pass Online Learning Using Hyperdimensional System”.

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• [AIP 2020] L. Hernández-Cano, A. Hernández-Cano, A. Leonor-Rivera. “Sleep staging by hyperdimensional dense networks”.

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(*) = Equal contributions.

Hackathons

• [LauzHack-LLMs 2025] 🏅 Tralala: From text to prototype: effortless 3D design with AI. Organizer’s prize in the APIs track.
• [LauzHack 2024] 🥈 Chronica: Create, manage, and visualize notes effectively and securely. Second Place overall.
• [HackUPC 2024] 🥇🥇 WALL-M: Bringing structure to your e-mail inbox using RAG and hybrid search. First Place: Use of Taipy. First Place: Best use of GenAI using Vector Search.
• [LauzHack 2023] Legacy LM: A personalized conversational AI model, preserving voices and legacies for future connection
• [LauzHack 2022] 🥈 Q0: An online platform for personalized study maps and adaptive learning content. Second Place overall.

Teaching

• [2023] “Machine learning”. Student teaching assistant of the 2023rd edition of the Master’s machine learning course at EPFL.

• [2022] “Graph and Game Theory” (Gráficas y juegos). Teaching assistant of the course given in 2022 at UNAM.

• [2020] “Introduction to Machine Learning” (Introducción al Aprendizaje de Máquina). Main lecturer of a 10-hour introductory course, presented online to students of the Institute of Chemistry of the Autonomus National University of Mexico (Instituto de Química, UNAM).

Fellowships and internships

• [2024] Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Zurich. Six-month internship optimizing open-source LLM distributed training frameworks and testing scaling performance with >1000GPU.
• [2019] ENLACE, UCSD. Summer Research program for high-school and bachelor students.