Sebastian Palacio
AI Research Scientist at ABB
Schwabenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolSebastian Palacio is an AI research scientist and leader with over a decade of experience building and deploying deep learning systems for computer vision, time series, text and tabular data. He holds a summa cum laude PhD in Artificial Intelligence and has led multimedia analysis and data mining teams at DFKI before driving industrial AI research at ABB on anomaly detection, generative and secure AI for automation and robotics. His research emphasizes Explainable AI and neural network understanding, with practical work spanning vehicle tracking, near-duplicate image retrieval, adversarial robustness and video-based analytics. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, he has also collaborated internationally as a visiting researcher at ICSI and consistently moves models from prototype to production in real-world automation settings. Based in Schwabenheim, Germany, he combines deep technical rigor with team leadership and a knack for translating complex ML research into operational solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, M. Sc. on Intelligent Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, M. Sc. on Intelligent Systems at Technische Universität KaiserslauternEngineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at EAFIT UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, summa cum laude at RPTU Kaiserslautern-LandauHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Deutsche Schule Medellin
Spanish, English, German, French
Github Skills (12)
pytorch10
python10
data-science9
tensorflow9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
neural-network8
jax8
ml5
deep-neural-networks5
artifacts3
scales1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
spalaciob/spalaciob.github.io
Feb 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
spalaciob/mom-ml-reading-group
Jul 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:37 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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