PhD Fellow · Multimodal Document Understanding
Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
I work in the Vision & Language Group at CVC, UAB, advised by Dimosthenis Karatzas and Ernest Valveny — building agentic document-understanding systems and foundation models for document understanding.
Before Barcelona I earned an MSc at the University of Amsterdam (thesis on Multimodal RAG) and spent two years as principal developer building e-commerce AI agents.
Definition 1 (Document). A page is not an image; it is a tree of meaning that happens to be printed.
PhD research · CVC
A navigation-first planner that walks a document's hierarchy instead of flat top-k retrieval, using layered embeddings as routing hints.
Principal developer · Industry
Flagship conversational shopping agent. Led development end-to-end; the project went on to raise close to USD 7M in funding.
MSc thesis · UvA
Master's thesis on retrieval-augmented generation across text and image, supervised by Benno Kruit and Jan-Christoph Kalo.
Łukasz Borchmann, Jordy Van Landeghem, Michał Turski, Shreyansh Padarha, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Adam Mahdi, Niels Rogge, Clémentine Fourrier, Siwei Han, Huaxiu Yao, Artemis Llabrés, Yiming Xu, Dimosthenis Karatzas, Hao Zhang, Anupam Datta
Yiming Xu, Eric López, Artemis Llabrés, Maximiliano Hormazábal, Ernest Valveny, Dimosthenis Karatzas
Benno Kruit, Yiming Xu, Jan-Christoph Kalo