Profile

Gerard Castro

Co-founder & CTO @ Nebbo

With a strong foundation in Mathematics, Physics & Data Science; I am very passionate about driving innovation and deploying state-of-the-art solutions to create lasting, positive impact. Co-founding Nebbo has given me the opportunity to apply my expertise in computing, mathematical modelling, AI architecture, and team leadership.

Chief Technical Officer

Nebbo Weather Solutions Jan 2024 - Present | Barcelona, Spain

Directing company's technical vision, R&D, and engineering teams.

  • Tasks: AI architecture design, product ownership, and driving strategic initiatives including funding, market expansion, equity, and customer engagement.

R&D Data Scientist

Vortex FdC May 2021 - Jan 2024 | Barcelona, Spain

Lead developer of the seasonal forecasting product.

  • Tasks: ETL process of C3S (sub)seasonal models, ensemble systems' calibration and AI post-processing using statistical, on-demand deployment (interface and an API)...

Deep Learning Expert

Clinicgram Jun 2022 - Sep 2022 | Barcelona, Spain

Leading the development of the chronic wound diagnosis project.

  • Tasks: applied discriminative AI for medical image annotation using ViT, implemented chronic wound risk prognostic using ML classifiers and thermal image...

MSc in Data Science

University of Barcelona | 2022 - 2024

Grade: 9.13/10.00.
MSc Thesis with honors on distribution-free model-agnostic uncertainty quantification (Presentation, Repo).

BSc in Mathematics

Autonomous University of Barcelona | 2016 - 2021

Honors in Computing & programming, Galois Theory, and Differential Geometry.

BSc in Physics

Autonomous University of Barcelona | 2016 - 2021

Honors in Chemistry and Numerical PDE Integration.

Programming Languages

Python, bash, SQL, R, C

Data Analysis Toolkit

numpy, pandas, scipy, xarray, dash, PIL

ML & DL Toolkit

scikit-learn, OpenCV, statsmodels, Keras, Tensorflow, Pytorch

Other

GCP suite, HPC architecture design, FastAPI, Plotly, git, cdo, ncview, MongoDB, MySQL

Native-level languages

Catalan, Spanish, English

Interests & Passions

  • Academic: Trustworthy XAI, uncertainty-aware modeling, physics-informed NN
  • Personal: BJJ, diving, coding for fun, data science competitions (Kaggle), fiction literature
  • Communication: Guest speaker at UViC, investor & accelerator pitches, technical conferences (e.g. Wind Europe Technology Workshop)