Giulia Cassara
Mentor at MentorCruise
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolGiulia Cassara is a PhD-trained data scientist and startup founder with 7 years of experience building high-impact AI and hardware solutions, currently co-founding Siliscale to design RISC-V processors and cryptographic accelerators. She has led deep learning work that is deployed clinically to diagnose rare pediatric diseases, authored a fast-tracked patent at NEC Labs, and helped secure Berkeley SkyDeck funding—demonstrating a rare blend of research rigor, productization, and investor-ready storytelling. As a mentor at MentorCruise she pairs technical hiring experience and PhD survival skills with a focus on identifying the psychological and narrative barriers that block career progress. Her background spans industry research internships (Intel Labs), genomic AI, and NLP-driven personalized treatment pipelines, showing fluency from models to medical impact. Known for lateral thinking and pragmatic execution, she helps founders and researchers sharpen pitches, validate models, and cut through years of wasted effort. Outside work she’s refreshingly straightforward—when not training she’s eating—hinting at disciplined curiosity beyond the lab.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
SkyDeck Acceleration Program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, SkyDeck Acceleration Program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Data Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Data Science at Sapienza Università di RomaBachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at University of Rome Tor Vergata
German, Romanian, English, Italian
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Github Skills (47)
social-engineering10
shark9
psychology9
graph-representation-learning8
biomedical8
iris-dataset8
nvidia8
biomedical-text-mining8
apple-silicon8
infosec8
bioinformatics7
mining7
seal7
heterogeneous7
prediction7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
giuliacassara/BrainNetworkStudy
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 3 pushes in 10 days
giuliacassara/Malignant-Mesothelioma
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:31 commits in 23 days
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