Borja León
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Iconic
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBorja León is an AI scientist and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Iconic in London where he leads R&D at the intersection of generative AI and interactive storytelling. He progressed rapidly through founding research and principal scientist roles at Iconic after completing a PhD in AI at Imperial College London, blending deep academic rigor with product-focused research. His background includes internships at Meta and SonyAI and a string of research positions across top European institutions, giving him strong expertise in machine learning research, prototyping, and production-ready systems. Borja’s work emphasizes transforming narrative experiences through novel AI techniques, reflecting both creative ambition and technical depth. He pairs a telecoms engineering foundation from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid with hands-on industry collaborations, making him adept at translating complex models into deployable game and media applications. Colleagues describe him as a research-driven builder who brings academic insight into startup velocity and product impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Imperial College LondonExchange year and Master thesis, Exchange year and Master thesis at Politecnico di MilanoMaster in Telecommunication Engineering, Master in Telecommunication Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
neural-network10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
python10
data-science10
ml10
deep-neural-networks9
grid-world7
deep-reinforcement-learning6
grid6
reinforcement-learning5
android-app1
android1
kotlin1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bgLeon/EMG
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
bgLeon/Learning_TensorFlow_Rep
Feb 2017 - Oct 2022
Models created to learn to work with TensorFlow from several quickstart tutorials
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
machine-learningtensorflow
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