Luis Camara
Research Training Fellow AI-Driven Drug Discovery at University of Geneva
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolLuis Camara is an interdisciplinary scientist-engineer with 11 years' experience applying computational chemistry, machine learning and computer vision to real-world problems, now focused on AI-driven drug discovery at the University of Geneva. He holds a PhD in Computational Chemistry and MSc degrees in Digital Signal Processing and Computer Vision, and bridges physics-based molecular modelling (docking, MD) with modern ML—especially GNNs and diffusion models—for virtual screening and generative molecular design. His career ranges from DSP and music fingerprinting systems that powered commercial platforms to state-of-the-art visual place recognition and multi-person tracking for robotics, demonstrating a rare ability to move ideas from research to deployed tools. Notably, his chemometrics work used GC–MS profiles to predict Pinot Noir origin and vintage with high accuracy, revealing sensory patterns through data science. He combines hands-on engineering (pipelines, dashboards, automated benchmarks) with deep domain knowledge to accelerate early discovery cycles and improve ligand prioritisation.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Chemistry, PhD Computational Chemistry at Imperial College LondonBSc Chemistry (Chemical Physics), BSc Chemistry (Chemical Physics) at Universidad Complutense de MadridMaster of Science (MSc) Digital Signal Processing (Music), Master of Science (MSc) Digital Signal Processing (Music) at Queen Mary University of LondonMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Vision, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Vision at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (18)
annotations9
imagenet9
semantic-segmentation9
computer-vision8
object-detection8
annotate8
labeling8
image-classification8
pytorch7
bounding-box7
image-annotation7
image-labeling7
training-data7
deep-learning7
scale7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Chicone/SSM-VPR
May 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:52 commits, 2 PRs, 100 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Chicone/wine_analysis
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:20 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
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