Diego Garcia-olano
Research Scientist at Meta
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Garcia-Olano is a research scientist with 12 years of experience at the intersection of NLP, ML explainability, and applied AI, currently working on model understanding at Meta Superintelligence Labs. He holds a PhD from UT Austin and a master's focused on data mining and network science, and has published work on interpretable biomedical entity representations and dense retrieval for entity linking. Diego blends deep research with production-grade engineering—his background spans full-stack development, large-scale data systems, and practical ML tooling across Google, IBM, and industry projects. He has a track record of translating weakly supervised biomedical signals into human-readable vector components that can be inspected and corrected at inference time. Based in Austin, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and hands-on delivery informed by prior work for clients like Spotify and Boxee TV.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Political Science and Hispanic Studies (Spanish) with a minor in Business, Honors, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Political Science and Hispanic Studies (Spanish) with a minor in Business, Honors at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD candidate, Machine Learning (Decision Information Communications Engineering), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD candidate, Machine Learning (Decision Information Communications Engineering) at Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at AustinUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (23)
pytorch7
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
biomedical6
bioinformatics5
pubmed5
rank4
nlp4
pipeline3
natural-language-processing3
reward3
python2
bert2
spacy2
natural-language-generation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
diegoolano/masters-courses
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 11 months
diegoolano/whoyouelect
Jul 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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