Marc Combalia,

AI Consultant

Artificial Intelligence Lead

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Technological Expertise

Computer Vision

OpenCV
Scikit-Image

Artificial Intelligence

PyTorch
Keras
Scikit Learn

FullStack Engineering

Django
PostGres
React
Sanity

Architecture Design

Docker
Docker Compose
Celery

Blockchain

Solidity

Data Engineering

Airflow
dbt
Airbyte

Work Experience

2021 - 2022

Chief Technology Officer and Founder

Athena Tech

- Creation of spinoff from the research works developed in Hospital Clinic of Barcelona - Definition of technological architecture or the processing of data and visualization of algorithm results in a SaaS platform. - Definition of business model and validation. - Participation on three venture accelerator programs (Digital Garden, The Collider, CATI),

- Creation of spinoff from the research works developed in Hospital Clinic of Barcelona - Definition of technological architecture or the processing of data and visualization of algorithm results in a SaaS platform. - Definition of business model and validation. - Participation on three venture accelerator programs (Digital Garden, The Collider, CATI),

2018 - 2022

Artificial Intelligence Area Director

Hospital Clinic of Barcelona

- Creation of an artificial intelligence team composed of 7 machine learning and artificial intelligence engineers participating in national and international projects. - Definition of the data acquisition protocol for data acquisition of QUALITOP H2020 Project. - Coordination of the national project of La Marató de TV3 project - Melanoma, preparation of the proposal, creation of a multidimensional database, training of algorithms, definition of interpretability modules based on inferential causality, algorithm, and data visualization platform. - Coordinated the national project of La Marató de TV3 project - Colorectal Cancer, preparation of a histopathological image labeling platform, training of survival estimation algorithms, and histopathological image evaluation algorithms. - Algorithm development: image classification neural network to perform diagnosis using dermoscopy images, generative adversarial network to virtually stain confocal microscopy tissue samples, survival estimation XGBoost and neural network to perform risk estimation on melanoma patient using clinical and genetic data. - Tutorization of several student projects on artificial intelligence. - Organization of artificial intelligence challenges in Kaggle such as the ISIC Challenge 2019, 2020.

- Creation of an artificial intelligence team composed of 7 machine learning and artificial intelligence engineers participating in national and international projects. - Definition of the data acquisition protocol for data acquisition of QUALITOP H2020 Project. - Coordination of the national project of La Marató de TV3 project - Melanoma, preparation of the proposal, creation of a multidimensional database, training of algorithms, definition of interpretability modules based on inferential causality, algorithm, and data visualization platform. - Coordinated the national project of La Marató de TV3 project - Colorectal Cancer, preparation of a histopathological image labeling platform, training of survival estimation algorithms, and histopathological image evaluation algorithms. - Algorithm development: image classification neural network to perform diagnosis using dermoscopy images, generative adversarial network to virtually stain confocal microscopy tissue samples, survival estimation XGBoost and neural network to perform risk estimation on melanoma patient using clinical and genetic data. - Tutorization of several student projects on artificial intelligence. - Organization of artificial intelligence challenges in Kaggle such as the ISIC Challenge 2019, 2020.

2018 - 2022

Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision Consultant

Freelance

- Consulting on the definition of proposals for computer vision and artificial intelligence activities. - Execution of computer vision project to detect the position of landmarks in construction spaces. - Execution of artificial intelligence project to detect pedestrians on infrared images.

- Consulting on the definition of proposals for computer vision and artificial intelligence activities. - Execution of computer vision project to detect the position of landmarks in construction spaces. - Execution of artificial intelligence project to detect pedestrians on infrared images.

2018 - 2018

Artificial Intelligence Researcher

i2CAT Foundation

- Researcher for the SHIELD European Project. - Ingesting techniques of high volumes of communication network data. - Development of ETLs based on big data tools (Hadoop, Kafka) - Development of AI algorithms to process high volumes of data (Spark, BigDL).

- Researcher for the SHIELD European Project. - Ingesting techniques of high volumes of communication network data. - Development of ETLs based on big data tools (Hadoop, Kafka) - Development of AI algorithms to process high volumes of data (Spark, BigDL).

2017 - 2018

Artificial Intelligence Researcher

Polytechnic University of Catalonia

- Main research line: artificial intelligence for biomedical applications. - Segmentation Neural Network to detect tumorous tissue on brain MRI. - Monte-Carlo estimation model to differentiate between different kinds of cancerous tissue in histology microscopy images. - Computer vision architecture to separate between various layers in skin histology microscopy images.

- Main research line: artificial intelligence for biomedical applications. - Segmentation Neural Network to detect tumorous tissue on brain MRI. - Monte-Carlo estimation model to differentiate between different kinds of cancerous tissue in histology microscopy images. - Computer vision architecture to separate between various layers in skin histology microscopy images.

2015 - 2018

Computer Vision Researcher

i2CAT Foundation

- Visible Light Communications (VLC) main researcher - Computer Vision main researcher - Built a patented Indoor Positioning System based on VLC (CT/EP2017/069232) - Built an autonomous vehicle that employs VLC to locate itself in space, currently in use in a testbed on SEAT's Factory in Martorell. - Built an Artificial Reality system based on VLC and CV. - Built a Virtual Reality system based on VLC and CV. - Built and showcased several VLC demonstrators at various technological congresses. Among them are Mobile World Congress 2016, Mobile World Congress 2017, and Consumer Electronics Show 2018.

- Visible Light Communications (VLC) main researcher - Computer Vision main researcher - Built a patented Indoor Positioning System based on VLC (CT/EP2017/069232) - Built an autonomous vehicle that employs VLC to locate itself in space, currently in use in a testbed on SEAT's Factory in Martorell. - Built an Artificial Reality system based on VLC and CV. - Built a Virtual Reality system based on VLC and CV. - Built and showcased several VLC demonstrators at various technological congresses. Among them are Mobile World Congress 2016, Mobile World Congress 2017, and Consumer Electronics Show 2018.

Research Publications

Num Citations (03-2022): 1262

H-Index (03-2022): 10

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New regulation of medical...

2022

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Checklist for evaluation ...

2022

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Artificial intelligence t...

2022

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Sentinel lymph node statu...

2022

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Dermoscopic, confocal and...

2021

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Influence of germline gen...

2021

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Implementation of persona...

2021

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Skin cancer classificatio...

2021

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A patient-centric dataset...

2021

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Deep learning automated p...

2021

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