Ernesto Diaz-aviles
Chief AI Scientist, Co-Founder & CEO at University College Dublin
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolErnesto Diaz-aviles is a Chief AI Scientist, Co-Founder and CEO with nine years of focused experience building large-scale machine learning and recommender systems across industry and academia. He has led AI teams and applied research at startups and enterprises—from founding Libre AI and recsyslabs to driving data science at Citi Innovation Lab and IBM Research—while holding adjunct research and teaching roles at University College Dublin. His work spans deep learning, NLP, online collaborative filtering, learning-to-rank and social web analytics, and he is a Kaggle Master since 2015 and author of a book on living analytics. Comfortable moving models from research to production, he has consulted for major retailers and travel platforms (John Lewis, Wayfair, GetYourGuide) and cofounded a creative AI studio. Ernesto pairs a PhD in computer science with hands-on engineering roots as a former software architect and Java developer, which helps him bridge rigorous research with pragmatic product delivery. An uncommon thread in his career is repeatedly founding ventures that translate recommender research into real-world personalization products.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at The University of FreiburgPh.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) Computer Science, Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) Computer Science at Leibniz Universität HannoverBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical Engineering at Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón CañasAdvanced Software Technology Diploma Software Engineering, Advanced Software Technology Diploma Software Engineering at Globsyn Business School
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (45)
sentence9
deploying9
roberta8
machine-learning8
css8
similarity8
javascript8
webgl8
electra8
word-embeddings7
typescript7
deep-learning7
gpu-acceleration7
sentence-similarity7
nlp6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
libreai/neural-painters-x
Aug 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:53 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
bluebalam/paper-rec
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 9 months
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