Wayner Barrios

• I'm a multimodal AI researcher. I build AI that can perceive and reason about the world more like we do.

• I work on multimodal perception, video understanding, reasoning, post-training with reinforcement learning, and AI safety.

• I'm also interested in efficient AI: smaller, more capable models and the infrastructure to run them on Apple Silicon, edge devices, and other hardware with limited compute and memory.

• I founded Wiqonn, an AI lab supporting AI work in Latin America.

• I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Dartmouth College with SouYoung Jin as my advisor.

• My work has been published at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, and WACV, and in medical AI journals.

• I enjoy mentoring and sharing what I learn. I've helped organize mentorship with LatinX in AI (LXAI) and contributed to Python Barranquilla, Python Colombia, and RedTeam Barranquilla.

• waybarrios@gmail.com