George Montañez
Life Member at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Montañez is an academic-practitioner in machine learning with eight years of professional experience bridging industry and higher education, currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College and a Life Member at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He holds an MS and PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon and has a track record of turning ML research into production-quality systems during internships and roles at Microsoft (including AutoML work for ML.NET) and Yahoo. His research and teaching span AutoML, spatio-temporal modeling, and time-series anomaly detection—areas he first explored in industry internships and later integrated into his academic work. Known for mentoring undergraduates (recognized by a named early-career professorship), he combines rigorous research with hands-on engineering and pedagogy. Based in the Los Angeles area, he brings a rare mix of enterprise product experience and scholarly engagement across Cambridge and California. An understated strength is his history of shipping practical optimization methods from lab prototypes into production pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of California, RiversideNorte Vista High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Baylor University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
algorithms10
machine-learning10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
ml9
cross-platform9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
george-microsoft/machinelearning
May 2018 - Jun 2018
ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET.
Contributions:25 pushes, 7 branches in 18 days
machine-learning-platformdotnetml-netmlmachine-learning
dotnet/machinelearning
May 2018 - Jun 2018
ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET.
Contributions:4 commits, 10 PRs, 4 pushes in 9 days
machine-learning-platformdotnetml-netmachine-learningcsharp
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