Hector Duran Lopez Velarde Email and Phone Number

Senior Consultant in Deloitte's AI & Data practice, where he focuses on AI and Industry 4.0 priorities for clients across various industries. He is passionate about creating solutions using AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and prompt engineering, leveraging tools such as GPTs, on-premises LLMs and SLM, and other generative AI technologies. Hector has extensive experience in planning, developing, and implementing software and AI projects.Recent Proof of Concepts (POCs) and Projects Utilizing Artificial Intelligence:Implemented Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems using Python, LangChain, and EmbedChain librariesConducted Fast Large Language Model (LLM) Benchmarks with curated tests for MMLU, HellaSwag, SummEval, and moreLeveraged LLMs for various Machine Learning Tasks including classification, clustering, regression, prediction, and suggestionExecuted Text Inference Benchmarks using on-premise LLM models such as LLaMa 3.1, Gemma 2, Phi 2, and MistralDeveloped Chat Systems utilizing OpenAI, Gemini Pro, and Claude APIsPerformed LLM Evaluation using log-likelihood (on-premise) and prompt-based approachesDesigned a Semantic Search System for book recommendations by titleForecasted stock exchange trends using the Meta Prophet LibraryBuilt Interactive Web Applications with Gradio and Hugging Face SpacesDeveloped an Automatic PowerPoint Creator capable of generating presentations on any topicCreated an Automatic Podcast Generator that produces podcasts of any length on various topicsUtilized Pinokio to run AI applications on-premiseEmployed LLM Studio for downloading and running LLMs on-premiseApplied Intel OpenVINO to convert and quantize LLMs for on-premise executionAchieved GCP Vertex AI Qwik Labs Bronze League LevelUtilized Meta Sapiens Library to extract human pose, segmentation, depth, and normal fields.