Ph.D. Student - Machine Learning
Education
- Ph.D. Machine Learning (Expected 2027), Georgia Tech
- M.S. Operations Research (Expected 2027), Georgia Tech
- M.S. Comp Sci - ML (Expected 2027), Georgia Tech
- M.S. Comp Sci (2004), University of Denver
- B.S. E.E. & M.E. (1995), UCA | ICAI Madrid
About
Oscar develops game-theoretic, optimization, and statistical learning frameworks for multi-actor coordination under institutional constraints, with applications to Physical Internet and AI/ML systems operating across sovereign jurisdictions. His research program studies institutional structure —sovereignty, regulatory heterogeneity, and governance—, equilibrium, and welfare behavior in finite and infinite-horizon stochastic games.
Prior to Georgia Tech, Oscar spent over 22 years in Fortune 100 technology, supply chain, and healthcare, in roles including CEO, CTO, and Principal Scientist, leading work involving optimization, statistical modeling, and applied AI/ML from early career with Toyota —expertise that informs his research.
Oscar is advised by Benoit Montreuil and Craig Tovey, and receives mentorship guidance in Optimization Theory from Arkadi Nemirovski and Stochastic Programming from Alexander Shapiro. He collaborates with Dmitrii Ostrovskii.
Research Interests
Applied:
- Physical Internet coordination design, large-scale multi-actor systems under regulatory heterogeneity.
Theoretical:
- Distributed learning, game theory, optimization.
Relevant Publications
Accepted:
- Physical Internet Across Sovereign Borders: A formalized design framework and the Price of π-Sovereignty (IPIC 2026, with C. Tovey and B. Montreuil)
In preparation for journal submission:
- Distributed learning under institutional constraints in stochastic games
- Equilibrium implementability across intervention classes: a geometric theory (with C. Tovey)
- Welfare bounds for multi-layer regulatory design (with C. Tovey and B. Montreuil)
- Physical Internet coordination under jurisdictional sovereignty (with C. Tovey and B. Montreuil)
Leisure
Oscar composes instrumental New Flamenco pieces and arrangements for one and two guitars, which he delivers solo in live multi-track looping act, and duo with Jose Valle Fajardo "Chuscales".
He is descendant of Agustín Barrios "Mangoré" through José Cándido Morales, master keeper of Barrios' legacy.
In Appreciation
- José Cándido Morales†
- Juan Ricardo Salazar-Simpson Bos†, S.J.
- Yossi Serebryanksi
- Alvaro Arias