Leon聽Palafox
Director Of AI Innovation Laboratory
Mexico City
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Top SchoolLeon Palafox is a Director of AI Innovation with nearly 20 years of applied AI, machine learning, and analytics experience, currently building investment products and LLM-powered MVPs to raise financial literacy in Mexico at GBM. He combines academic rigor from a PhD and MSc at the University of Tokyo with hands-on product delivery across banking, healthcare, retail, telco, and pharma, moving solutions from POC to production to drive measurable ROI. Previously he led AI strategy for Grupo Salinas and Novartis, delivering fraud detection, personalization, clinical decision-support, and generative-AI initiatives on cloud platforms. Leon also cultivates talent and research as a long-time data science professor and program director, and shares insights publicly through a biweekly column on AI in business. Trilingual in Spanish, English, and Japanese, he blends cross-cultural leadership with deep technical expertise in ML, generative models, IoT, and experimentation. Unusually for a director, he retains hands-on technical depth from planetary science and neuroscience research鈥攁pplying advanced ML methods to large scientific datasets early in his career.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoUniversidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico (UNAM)
Spanish, English, Japanese, French
Stackoverflow
2,725reputation
540kreached
7answers
31questions
Github Skills (18)
statistics9
python8
machine-learning8
data-science7
scikit7
data-analysis7
scikit-learn6
data-mining6
curve-fitting6
svm6
classification6
pattern-recognition6
artificial-intelligence6
in-progress2
incremental-learning1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
leonpalafox/fundamentos_ds
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
leonpalafox/dbclase_2020
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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