Diego Klabjan
Chief Technical Officer at Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDiego Klabjan is a seasoned AI and data science leader with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and commercial productization, currently serving as CTO at Nexus3 Capital while directing Northwestern’s Center for Deep Learning and its MS in Machine Learning and Data Science. He combines deep expertise in deep learning, big data solutions, and analytics with entrepreneurial experience as co-founder of multiple analytics and no-code MLOps startups, translating models into production-ready systems. As a long-standing professor at McCormick School of Engineering, he brings rigorous algorithmic training (PhD from Georgia Tech) to practical problems across finance, energy, and enterprise analytics. Diego’s career blends hands-on technical stewardship with strategic leadership, and he’s known for pushing generative AI into novel domains — an academic who consistently ships real-world AI products.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Algorithms Combinatorics and Optimization (Industrial and System Engineering), Ph.D. Algorithms Combinatorics and Optimization (Industrial and System Engineering) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Applied Mathematics Mathematics, Bachelor of Applied Mathematics Mathematics at University of Ljubljana
english, slovenian, italianProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wxhC3SC6OPm8M1HXboMy/embedding4DTW
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
wxhC3SC6OPm8M1HXboMy/spark-mrmr-feature-selection
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes in 1 month
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