Beñat San Sebastian
Data Scientist
Senior Data Scientist at BBVA
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Senior Data Scientist
BBVA
Oct 2024 - Present
Senior Data Scientist
BBVA
At AI Factory's GenAI Lab, I explore cutting-edge advancements in LLMs, test new technologies, and share insights to accelerate the implementation of GenAI solutions and foster a deeper understanding across the organization.
Lecturer in the Master of Data Science Program
KSchool
Dec 2019 - Present
Lecturer in the Master of Data Science Program
KSchool
Current Teaching Focus: Generative AI Workshop: Prompt Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with LangChain, and Agents with LangGraph. Statistics with Python: Covering areas such as Descriptive Statistics, Probability, Inference, and Bayesian Statistics. Previous Teaching Subjects: Data Analytics with Python: Included modules like Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, APIs, and Web Scraping. Statistical Learning with R: Focused on Regression, Classification, Clustering, and Dimensionality Reduction.
Data Science Tech Lead
NEORIS
Dec 2023 - Oct 2024
Data Science Tech Lead
NEORIS
Working within BBVA as a GenAI Lab Specialist. My role centers on engaging with the latest LLMs advancements, testing these technologies, and effectively disseminating this knowledge across BBVA to foster widespread understanding and application.
Co-Founder
Newral AI
Jan 2021 - Jan 2024
Co-Founder
Newral AI
Data analytics, machine learning and AI consulting services and formation.
Data Scientist & Innovation Manager
LLYC
May 2022 - Dec 2023
Data Scientist & Innovation Manager
LLYC
Creating data analytics tools and models for communications, public affairs, and understanding and tracking conversations in social networks. Mainly focused on Natural Language Processing, Genarative AI and Graph Analytics.
Data Scientist
Bankinter
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Data Scientist
Bankinter
Data Scientist
MAPFRE
Oct 2019 - Mar 2022
Data Scientist
MAPFRE
Leading several projects end to end collecting, processing and exploring data, modeling and supervising final deployment on topics such as debt collection, fraud detection or cross-selling. Building tools for machine learning pipelines to assist data preprocessing and enrichment, feature engineering and modeling.
Data Science Intern
MAPFRE
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Data Science Intern
MAPFRE
Innovation Project Manager & R&D Incentives Consultant
Key Solutions
May 2017 - Mar 2019
Innovation Project Manager & R&D Incentives Consultant
Key Solutions
R&D tax incentive consulting and writing proposals for R&D financing programs (CDTI, AEESD etc.). I specialised in software development projects and worked for data-driven startups such as Mediasmart and Geoblink.
Spanish Assistant & Rugby Coach
Hampton School
Oct 2013 - Jul 2015
Spanish Assistant & Rugby Coach
Hampton School
Education: 4
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
Master's degree
Oct 2022 - Jul 2025
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
Master's degree
KSchool
Postgraduate Program
2018 - 2019
KSchool
Postgraduate Program
Covered topics: Intro to Data Science (Shell, Git, SQL) Data analysis, Machine Learning and Statistics (R, Python) Intro to Big Data (Hadoop, Spark) Visualization and Business Intelligence (Tableau, D3.js)
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
Bachelor's degree
2012 - 2019
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
Bachelor's degree
The program included relevant courses to data analytics such as econometrics, probability and statistical inference. End-of-degree project in behavioural economics. I applied experimental economics, game theory and data analytics tools to study cognitive and social factors on the economic decisions.
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Education
2003 - 2006
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Education
Completed the following math relevant courses in aeronautical engineering: general mathematics, algebra, calculus, differential geometry, differential equations, mathematical methods and numerical computation.
Credentials: 15
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Coursera
Natural Language Processing with PyTorch
Pluralsight
Coursera
Coursera
Coursera
Coursera
Volunteering: 3
U18 Assitant Coach
Club de Rugby Complutense Cisneros
U23 Head Coach
Club de Rugby Complutense Cisneros
U18 Head Coach
Club de Rugby Complutense Cisneros