Ivan Garibay
Co-Founder And Founding CEO at University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolIvan Garibay is a technology innovator, professor, and entrepreneur who builds AI-driven science ventures and university innovation ecosystems. As Co-Founder and Founding CEO of Deepbio Scientific and a Professor at UCF, he applies domain-specific foundation models and provenance-grounded world models to accelerate mRNA and nanoparticle therapeutics. He has 15+ years leading research translation, startup formation, and graduate program creation—co-founding UCF’s MS in Data Analytics and serving on the NSF I-Corps board. His work spans AI/ML foundation models for science, agent-based and complex adaptive systems, evolutionary computation, and computational economics, with a rare blend of academic rigor and operational startup experience. He also consults on AI strategy, governance, and agentic workflows for regulated sectors, leveraging decades of funded research and a patent in deep learning fine-tuning. Based in Orlando, he pairs hands-on model development with ecosystem building and entrepreneurship education to move breakthroughs from lab to market.
8 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Electrical Enginering, BSc, Electrical Enginering at Universidad Ricardo PalmaPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Spanish, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
linear-models10
textbook10
r-language10
jupyterlab10
predictive-modeling9
python8
science8
machine-learning6
r-programming6
data-science5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
igaribay/DSSwithPython
Apr 2018 - Sep 2022
Companion to textbook "Decision Support Systems: Introduction to Data Science with Applications"
Contributions:145 commits, 2 PRs, 126 pushes in 4 years 5 months
pythonlinear-modelssciencedata-sciencetextbook
igaribay/SSOrlando
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Testing functionality for research
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 3 branches in 1 day
testing
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