Hi,I'mJoelMilla-PerceptionEngineer

I am deeply interested in autonomous vehicles - how they perceive their surroundings, localize themselves, and plan intelligent routes. Currently pursuing a Bachelor's in Computer Science at the Tec de Monterrey.

Resume

Timeline

A short summary of my work experience...

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Swift LLC

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

Swift LLC

Monterrey, NL, Mexico

Founder (Part-time)

Founded, incorporated, and operated e-commerce LLC specializing in consumer products ranging from fishing to gardening equipment, leveraging third-party fulfillment networks for global distribution. Generated $6,000+ revenue across three continents within the first operational year.

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Google

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

Google

New York City, NY, United States

Software Engineer Intern (Internship)

Collaborated with the YouTube Education team to enhance content discovery for 14M+ learners struggling to find relevant educational videos by extracting, rendering, and transferring academic metadata across Google's data infrastructure to display useful information on YouTube pages. Deployed personalized badge features impacting 2M+ users within 3 months.

YouTube EducationYouTube Education
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MedTracker

Oct 2023 - Jun 2024

MedTracker

Monterrey, NL, Mexico

Founder (Full-time)

Founded AI-powered healthcare startup developing clinical copilot that instantly analyzes patient biometric data and symptom history to support medical decisions. Took one semester off school to work full-time on the idea.

MedTrackerMedTracker
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AiR Laboratory

Jun 2025 - Present

AiR Laboratory

Queretaro, QR, Mexico

Research Assistant (Full-time)

Built, trained, and deployed AI architecture with specialized control for greenhouse environments to make an agricultural robot autonomous at the AiR (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics) Laboratory. Adapted the LaneATT deep learning architecture for autonomous navigation, achieving 91% F1 score with 48ms inference time and 1.67° average yaw error in field trials.

AiR Laboratory

Projects

Here you can see some of the projects I've done on my own time.

Jan 2025 — May 2025

LiDAR-Based Perception System

Developer

Developed a point cloud processing pipeline for autonomous vehicle perception using KITTI dataset, enabling real-time object clustering and multi-frame tracking in urban environments. Implemented custom RANSAC-based plane segmentation to separate road surfaces from obstacles, followed by KD-tree optimized Euclidean clustering for object identification. Built a particle filter algorithm to track moving objects (such as cyclists) across sequential point cloud frames, maintaining temporal consistency. Enhanced processing efficiency through voxel grid filtering and region-of-interest selection, achieving sub-0.2 second processing times per frame while handling high-resolution LiDAR data from urban datasets.
C++PCLRANSACKD-TreeParticle Filter

Jan 2025 — May 2025

Feature Detection System

Developer

Built a camera-based feature tracking system for collision detection, enabling reliable keypoint tracking across sequential image frames. Implemented and evaluated multiple keypoint detectors including Harris, FAST, BRISK, ORB, AKAZE, and SIFT, combined with advanced descriptors (BRISK, BRIEF, ORB, AKAZE, SIFT) and Gaussian/Sobel preprocessing filters. Engineered a robust descriptor matching pipeline using both FLANN and brute force methods with cross-checking validation and k-nearest neighbors distance ratio testing to eliminate false positives. Optimized performance by implementing a ring buffer for image storage and filtering keypoints to vehicle-only regions, achieving 112 keypoint matches across frames in 0.43 seconds while identifying FAST+BRISK, FAST+ORB, and AKAZE as the top-performing detector-descriptor combinations.
C++OpenCVFLANNHarrisFASTSIFTAKAZE

Jan 2025 — May 2025

Somatic Single Nucleotide Variants

AI Developer

Built an ensemble meta-learning system to identify cancer-specific mutations by combining predictions from four somatic SNV calling algorithms (MuTect, VarScan, FreeBayes, VarDict). Engineered a variant classification pipeline that analyzes VCF files across multiple callers to distinguish true somatic variants from sequencing noise, processing 12GB of genomic data including synthetic and real tumor samples. Achieved 0.94 F1-score on test dataset through feature extraction and consensus modeling.
PythonVCFMachine LearningGenomicsEnsemble Methods

Jan 2025 — May 2025

Facebook Comment Volume Prediction

AI Developer

Developed a regression system to predict Facebook post engagement levels using the UCI dataset with 50+ features including temporal patterns, page metrics, and comment history. Implemented and compared four machine learning approaches (Decision Tree, Linear Regression, Neural Network, KNN) to handle highly skewed comment distribution. Engineered comprehensive preprocessing pipeline with statistical transformations and dimensionality reduction, with Decision Tree model achieving optimal prediction accuracy.
PythonScikit-learnDecision TreesKerasNeural NetworksFeature Engineering

Aug 2024 — Dec 2024

NeoSync - Neoris

Developer & Scrum Master

Built a full-stack AI-powered platform to streamline software pre-sales management, featuring an intelligent chatbot using LLaMA for automated requirement analysis and proposal generation. Architected a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline integrating Pinecone vector database with PostgreSQL for semantic search capabilities, enabling efficient document retrieval and context-aware responses. Implemented the application using Next.js, TypeScript, and Supabase, establishing CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions and Docker for automated deployment. Led agile development as Scrum Master coordinating a team of five developers, delivering the final product presentation to Neoris executive team.
Next.jsTypeScriptSupabasePostgreSQLPineconeLLaMADockerGitHub ActionsRAG