About

Hello! I'm Sebastian Otálora.  I'm a computer scientist working in medical image analysis with machine learning  (mostly deep learning). 

Currently I'm working as a computer vision / ml  engineer at Kaiko.ai, together with many brilliant engineers and scientist we are building a foundation model for cancer research and that will support doctors in their clinical practice.  

Previously I did a postdoc developing predictive algorithms for MRI stroke imaging in the  Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging SCAN at the Inselspital in Bern, Switzerland.  I obtained my PhD. in the MedGIFT research group and before that I obtained my Master's degree at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, in the MindLab research group.

My primary research interests are:            

• Applications of machine learning to aid physicians in  challenging medical image tasks

• Foundations of Machine Learning and Information Retrieval

•  Algorithms and Discrete Structures                                            

Currently working on: 

• Deep learning models with semi, weak and self-supervised feature learning applied to computational pathology

• Multimodal learning to understand massive medical datasets

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