Jorge Castanon
IBM Lead Data Scientist
Bay Area, CA
Jorge Castañón hails from Mexico City and received his Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University. He has a genuine passion for data science and machine learning applications of any kind. Since 2007, he is been developing numerical optimization models and algorithms for regularization and inverse problems. At IBM, Jorge joined the Big Data Analytics team at Silicon Valley Laboratory where he is building the future of machine learning and text analytics tools using Apache Spark and Hadoop.