Leon Palafox
Director Of AI Innovation Laboratory
Mexico City
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Top SchoolLeon Palafox is a seasoned AI innovator and strategic technology leader with 20 years of experience building data-driven solutions across finance, healthcare, and retail. He currently serves as Director of the AI Innovation Laboratory at GBM in Mexico City, guiding strategy and delivering large-scale personalization and experimentation with generative AI for the financial sector. A PhD in Data Science from the University of Tokyo (alongside an MSc in Robotics and IoT) anchors his research-to-implementation approach, with fluency in Spanish, English, and Japanese enabling global collaboration. He has led AI initiatives at Banorte, Algorithia, and Novartis, deploying fraud detection, risk models, customer analytics, and healthcare decision-support systems, often bridging IT and business teams. In addition to his industry leadership, he is a professor at Universidad Panamericana, directs applied data science programs, and contributes as an op-ed writer for El Financiero, shaping both practice and policy. Based in Mexico City, he also engages with the Japón-México scholarship community as Vice President of the Asociación Mexicana de Exbecarios del Japón to foster international partnerships.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)University of Tokyo
Spanish, English, Japanese, French
Stackoverflow
2,725reputation
540kreached
7answers
31questions
Github Skills (19)
statistics9
python8
machine-learning8
data-science7
scikit7
data-analysis7
scikit-learn6
data-mining6
curve-fitting6
svm6
classification6
pattern-recognition6
artificial-intelligence6
neural-networks5
in-progress2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
leonpalafox/fundamentos_ds
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
leonpalafox/dbclase_2020
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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