Juan Montenegro
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at kaiko.ai
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJuan Montenegro is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Lausanne with a decade of experience building and deploying ML systems for medical imaging and multimodal clinical data. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning and has driven foundation-model development at Kaiko.ai, co-leading a pathology model trained on over 350 million tissue patches that achieved state-of-the-art results on pan-cancer and biomarker tasks. Juan pairs deep research experience—from a postdoc in MRI stroke prediction at Inselspital—with production engineering skills, having scaled distributed training across 64 H200 GPUs and authored an evaluation framework that became the open-source EVA library. He also secured €2.5M in translational research funding by proposing pipelines linking pixel-level spatial proteomics to tissue morphology, demonstrating an ability to translate technical advances into stakeholder value. Known for close collaboration with pathologists and computational biologists, he solves practical I/O and gigapixel image-processing bottlenecks while applying foundation models to improve health outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de ColombiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning at University of GenevaPost Doctoral Degree Educational/Instructional Technology, Post Doctoral Degree Educational/Instructional Technology at Medizinsammlung Inselspital Bern
Github Skills (45)
histopathology10
decomposition9
biomedical-engineering9
weakly-supervised-learning9
digital-pathology8
biomedical8
clam8
feature-detection8
normalization8
jupyterlab8
pattern-recognition8
image-processing8
recurrent7
slide7
jupyter7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sebastianffx/stain_adversarial_learning
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
sebastianffx/stainlib
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
Python 3 library for the augmentation & normalization of H&E images
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 10 months
decompositionpythonfeature-detectionimage-augmentationnormalization
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