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Boston, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• GTA is a startup leveraging satellite images and on-ground data to improve food security in multiple African countries• Engineered computer vision models to predict geo-referenced field boundaries from 10m-resolution optical satellites• Addressed transfer learning challenges like clouds, landscape divergence and low resolution at production-level • Crafted scalable pipeline to apply model on millions of hectares of land in Senegal, Kenya, Rwanda and Nigeria • Supported creation of deep learning models predicting land cover, crop type and stage of growth

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Supervised development of VAT fraud detection model commissioned by Armenia’s tax authorities achieving 32% improved detection rate• Leveraged trillions of insurance claims data to detect fraudulent billings and create dashboard of US price-of-care statistics • Developed framework to process NSQIP hospital data and designed novel US-wide quality-of-care evaluation• Created tool to process and leverage satellite data to predict yield in Morocco and influence government actions

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• IAI is a MIT startup founded by Professor Dimitris Bertsimas in 2018 delivering easy-to-interpret AI solutions• Built demand forecasting pipeline for Fortune 100 company increasing revenue by $25 millions per year• Designed patient matching algorithm (AUC 0.98) leading to $10mln saved per year in insurance cost• Rolled out POC fertilizer recommender as potential business model for Ground Truth Analytics

Greater New York City Area

• Developed a recommendation system to provide dealerships with optimal assortment• Improved understanding of product desirability and guided manufacturing strategies for new vehicles• Coordinated project with business stakeholders internationally• Increased revenue by 9% while selling cars 20% faster

• Analyzed over 40k Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals• Developed a framework to load, process and determine if an ECG is problematic in real-time (less than 30 milliseconds)• Achieved out of sample F1 Scores in the range 0.93-0.99 to detect 7 types of heart anomalies• First known work to achieve high performance across hospitals, countries and recording standards• Peer-reviewed and published in a top journal in the field: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9380678

• Most important private healthcare company in Peru (Top 15 in Latin America): 340k patients, 2k employees• Built models to forecast optimal length of stay for over 48k patients needing to be hospitalized (Random Forest, XGBoost)• Reduced duration of average hospital stay by 55%, improving allocation of human resources and facilities• Implemented a 4-weeks-long pilot program• Achieved 2nd place in Machine Learning class competition (out of 40 teams) after presentation to jury of 5 established data scientists

Milan Area, Italy

• Created models to detect communities from patterns of phone interactions between 3.3 million customers• Identified families among users, allowing the company to offer tailored promotions and decrease churn rate• Presented results to computer science professors at Bocconi University and to company’s data science team (40 people), and received full thesis score

Milan Area, Italy

• Created Natural Language Processing interfaces to analyze 1.4 million users’ text feedback about company services• Improved categorization of complaints, enabling the recognition of strengths and weaknesses of products offered• Developed and presented a dashboard to data science team and director of advanced analytics (30 people)

Master Of Business Analytics

• Relevant coursework: Machine Learning, Optimization Methods, Applied Probability • Co-organizer of Sports Analytics Conference (3500+.

Education record

Cross-Registered student at Harvard Kennedy School: "Data Science for Politics"

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics, Management And Computer Science

• Top 5% of the class, Graduation grade: 110/110 Cum Laude • Co-founder of Computational Society (25+ members) • School Ambassador.

4 Months Exchange Program

Activities and Societies: Wisconsin International Students Association• Full-score 4.0 - 4.0: • Econ 301 - Intermediate Microeconomic.

Scientific High School With Focus On Mathematics, Physics, Latin And Philosophy

• Class Representative • Member of the School Band