Francisco Peña - Assistant Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Francisco Peña

Assistant Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

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Francisco Peña is an Assistant Professor and AI-driven computer scientist with 12 years of experience applying deep learning to real-world problems across healthcare, remote sensing, recommender systems and software analytics. He develops convolutional and semantic segmentation models to extract actionable patterns from histopathology and satellite imagery, and has translated research into industry collaborations including AstraZeneca and Karolinska Institutet. His work spans the full research-to-production pipeline—data engineering, model design and clinical/operational integration—bridging academic rigor with practical deployment. Trained with a PhD from University College Cork and a master’s in AI from UPM, he also has a solid software engineering background from early bioinformatics and BI projects, which informs his emphasis on reproducibility and robust tooling.

12 years of coding experience

13 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University College Cork

Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Universidad del Valle (CO)

Master’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Github Skills (9)

jetbrains4

factorization4

machine-learning3

matrix-factorization3

react3

recommender-system2

nextjs2

material-design2

gradient-descent1

Programming languages (3)

JavaGoPython

Github contributions (5)

melqkiades/yelp

Mar 2014 - Dec 2018

Contributions:624 commits, 357 pushes in 4 years 9 months

melqkiades/deep-wetlands

Jul 2022 - Jan 2024

Contributions:169 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months

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