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ccolon at mit dot edu
Hey! I'm Cristián, a senior at MIT studying Computer Science. I love building things that involve ML, cybersecurity, graphics, or probability. When I'm not coding, you'll find me practicing kickboxing, playing racing games, or at the poker table with some friends.
My Projects
Things I've built that I'm proud of.

Particle Engine
August 2025
Simulated emergent life-patterns using GPU; visualized thousands of interacting species in real-time.

Formlabs Sales & Services AI Agents
August 2025
Automates sales qualification and service triage; captures qualified leads to Zapier and opens service cases with BigQuery context. Built at a Formlabs-sponsored hackathon and now being implemented by Sales and Services.
UFC Match Outcome Predictor
March 2025
Built an end-to-end ML pipeline that predicts UFC match outcomes using multi-source historical data and 80 engineered features, achieving 62.4% test accuracy with probability outputs.
BluffBot
January 2025
Built a progression of heads-up poker bots from heuristics to a Deep CFR–guided policy; benchmarked across 1000-round matches with a custom engine and bounty mechanics.

Stock Predictor RL
May 2024
Built an end-to-end pipeline that combines price data with social sentiment to train an LSTM forecaster and evaluate rule-based and PPO RL trading strategies.
About Me
Experience
Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Incoming Summer 2026
Software Engineering Intern @ Nasdaq
2026 - GenAI Platform Team
ML & Cybersecurity Researcher @ MIT CSAIL
2024-2026 - ALFA Group
Software Engineering Intern @ Formlabs
2024 & 2025 - PreForm 3D Print Preparation Software
Course Staff Assistant
2025 - MIT 6.C01 Machine Learning
VR Researcher @ MIT Media Lab
2024 - Responsive Environmentss
Education
B.S. Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • 2026