Juan Pérez
Senior AI Research Scientist at Meta
Thuwal, Makkah Region, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJuan Pérez is an AI research scientist specializing in generative video models, currently advancing monetization-focused generative AI at Meta after completing a PhD in Computer Vision at KAUST. With nine years of experience spanning industry and academia, he has a strong track record in adversarial robustness, image segmentation, and personalized animatable avatar stylization from prior research and internships at Meta and KAUST. He blends deep theoretical rigor—evidenced by a 3.84/4.0 PhD and top grades in biomedical engineering—with applied ML engineering experience, having led a production credit-scoring system for a major Colombian bank. Juan’s work sits at the intersection of creative media and robustness, making him adept at turning cutting-edge generative research into product-ready capabilities. Based in Thuwal, he brings a global perspective shaped by Colombian roots, Middle Eastern doctoral training, and UK affiliation.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)Universidad de los Andes
Github Skills (22)
natural-language-understanding8
computer-vision7
clustering5
instance-segmentation5
multimodal5
face4
value-iteration4
visual-recognition3
editing3
pytorch3
tradeoff2
defense2
generative-adversarial-network2
radiance2
mesh2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
j1k1000o/MagnetLoss-PyTorch
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
PyTorch implementation of a deep metric learning technique called "Magnet Loss" from Facebook AI Research (FAIR) in ICLR 2016.
Contributions:257 pushes in 11 days
pytorchdeep-metric-learningiclrdeep-learningmetric-learning
juancprzs/TTE
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:134 commits in 10 months
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