Ignacio López-Francos

Ignacio López-Francos is a Senior Research Engineer in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA. Ignacio has also worked as an engineer consultant for Autopilot Engineer and a Chief Business & Strategy Officer for Jaxo. Prior to that, they were a Data Scientist for Meta and United Airlines.

López-Francos has experience with Machine Learning, NLP, DL & Computer Vision, IoT, cloud computing, recommender systems, chatbots, and more. Ignacio has led research initiatives to develop novel commercial AI applications for the aviation industry.

Ignacio López-Francos has a MS in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and their field is Operations Research, Automation, Robotics. Ignacio also has a BS in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering from the same school. Ignacio is currently a Full Stack Deep Learning Engineer at University of California, Berkeley. Ignacio is also a Self-Driving Car Engineer ND at Udacity, where they work on Deep Learning, Robotics, Sensor Fusion, and Path Planning.

They work with and Scott Poll - Deputy Division Chief, Intelligent Systems Division. Their manager is David Alfano, Division Chief, Intelligent Systems Division.