Summary
Viviana Siless is a senior software engineer and AI researcher with eight years of experience bridging academic rigor and product impact across healthcare, fintech, and biotech. She holds a PhD from Paris-Sud and completed a postdoc at Harvard Medical School, where she developed deep-learning methods for MRI and went on to publish in CVPR and MICCAI with projects like VesselGPT and VisDecode. As a professor and former CTO of BioMakers, she has led interdisciplinary teams to deploy transformers, multimodal and graph generative models for diagnostics and clinical data integration. She co-founded Quipu Bank to deliver AI-driven micro-loans across Latin America and has formal training in entrepreneurship and blockchain from MITdesignX and DraperU. Known for moving research from prototype to production, she also champions equity in science through leadership roles and an unusual side background in photography that informs her visual approach to computer vision.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)
Algorand x DraperU Blockchain Program, entrepreneurial studies in web3, Algorand x DraperU Blockchain Program, entrepreneurial studies in web3 at Draper University
Enterpreneur, Enterpreneur at Polkadot Blockchain Academy
MITdesignX Entrepreneurship program, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, MITdesignX Entrepreneurship program, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
High School Diploma, Information Technology, High School Diploma, Information Technology at ORT Argentina
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Buenos Aires
Posdoc, Artificial Intelligence, Posdoc, Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University
Latitud Fellowship 6, Latitud Fellowship 6 at Latitud
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese