Bridging Physics and Enterprise AI

The Path from Physics to Platform

About

I grew up in Mexico City in a close-knit community — a mother who married at 19 and warned me that studying math would scare off boys. There were no women physicists in my world. I studied philosophy instead.

But I couldn’t stop thinking about physics. At Brandeis, I told a friend from Darjeeling I didn’t want to die without trying. He called his adviser that afternoon. I cancelled a humanities program at Cornell, crammed the entire physics major into two years starting from rusty algebra, and graduated summa cum laude with dual degrees in physics and philosophy — including an honors thesis on the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, a subject that turned out to be unexpectedly useful twenty years later when “AI governance” became everyone’s problem.

That path led to Stanford, where I became the first Mexican woman to earn a PhD in physics. I worked with two Nobel Laureates: Robert Laughlin on how waves scatter through complex systems, and Steven Chu, in whose lab we used optical tweezers to manipulate single strands of DNA. My dissertation research on time-reversal and spatial focusing of acoustic waves established my expertise in wave propagation, optimization, and computational modeling.

Twenty years later, my career has been one pattern in different costumes: take frontier research and make it real. Postdoc at NYU Courant and Columbia. Quantitative risk modeling at Morgan Stanley. Built Metis from zero as Chief Data Scientist — bootcamp and corporate AI training. Lead Scientist in Microelectronics and Quantum Computing at VTT, where I helped commercialize Finland’s first quantum computer. Founded Solve For You, LLC and led 25 AI products from concept to market. Now Partner and AI Products Leader at EY, where I architected the firm’s framework for enterprise-scale agentic AI.

The gap between what scientists build and what the world adopts is where most technology quietly dies. I close that gap. That’s the job. It’s always been the job.

Mexico City origin → Stanford PhD → Morgan Stanley → VTT → EY → 25 products.

EDUCATION

PhD in Physics, Stanford University

MSc in Physics, Stanford University

MSc in Physics, UNAM

BA in Physics & Philosophy, Brandeis (summa cum laude)

Postdoctoral Research:

NYU Courant Institute & Columbia University