Yago Diez
Associate Professor
Sendai, Japan
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Top SchoolYago Diez is an associate professor and applied researcher with nine years of experience in Japan, specializing in deep learning for processing drone-acquired forest imagery and broader data science education at Yamagata University. His background combines a PhD in Computational Geometry with extensive research in medical image registration, computer vision, and point cloud matching from roles at ViCOROB and Universitat de Girona. He has coordinated and supervised EU- and nationally funded projects, bringing practical project management to academic research and student training. Comfortable bridging theory and application, he actively seeks collaborations and opportunities to mentor students and young researchers interested in training placements in Japan. An early adopter of GPU-accelerated algorithms, he leverages both mathematical rigor and hands-on implementation to tackle real-world imaging problems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, English, Catalan, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
kanji3
machine-learning2
keras2
elastic1
deep-learning1
tensorflow1
neural-network1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nicill/treetopDetection
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
nicill/trees
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:105 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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