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General Information
| Full Name | Renato Castro Cruz |
| Date of Birth | 4th October 1998 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
Education
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2020 BS. Engineering
National University of Engineering, Lima, Peru - GPA 4.0
- Dean's List in my faculty
- Excellence Scholarship through the peruvian government for my undergraduate studies
- 146th Anniversary University Recognition for Winning International Competitions in Data
Research and Teaching Experience
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2025-now Researcher
GreenBridge Labs, Boston USA - Contributing to create an agent from scratch to help utilities companies in their Energy Transition.
- We are backed by MIT Sloan Sustainable Initiative.
- So happy to be here!
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2020-now Research Assistant in the PUCP Artificial Intelligence Group
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), Lima PE - Research Assistant in the Artificial Intelligence Group (IA-PUCP) under supervision of Dr. Cesar Beltran
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2019-2022 Teaching Assistant in the Certified Courses Series of Artificial Intelligence Development
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), Lima PE - TA in Introduction to Python and Data Science
- TA in Deep Learning on Time Series
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2018-2019 Research Assistant in Information and Communications Technology Center
National University of Engineering, Lima PE - Research Assistant in the Big Data Lab under supervision of Mg. Yuri Nunez
Industry Experience
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2024-now Regional Advanced Analytics Manager
Castillo Hermanos, Guatemala GT - Leading the data engineering, machine learning and AI projects in the business unit of brewing and beverages in Cerveceria Centroamericana.
- Developed Recommendation Systems, Gradient Boosting Models, Forecasting Models to improve the main KPIs of the business operations and sales.
- Achieving almost ~$22MM in contribution margin of period 2024-2025
- Applying digital agent Gemini and Copilot in the business operation
- I am always looking for great talent. So we are hiring! Just email your CV to me rcastroc@pucp.edu.pe
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2022-2024 Regional Advanced Analytics Leader
Millicom International (TIGO), Panama City PA - Leading the analytics and machine learning projects to improve business operations
- Achieving 800K users in the business fintech product generating a revenue of ~$4.5MM and 50K loans monthly
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2021-2022 Data Scientist Sr.
AB InBev, Lima PE - Applying machine learning and data analytics to improve the main business operations and sales KPIs
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2020-2021 Advanced Analytics Jr.
Pichincha Bank, Lima PE - Developed web application to improve the way of working of the wholesale banking.
- Developed a web application to help the company to manage the pipeline for COVID-19 assistance credits allocation "Reactiva Peru" in clients (I loved this project!)
- Applying data analytics to achieve the targets
Open Source Projects
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2020 Computer Vision for Social Distancing on Nvidia Jetson Nano
- This repository contains a computer vision system for real-time social distancing monitoring using YOLOv3 object detection and Bird's Eye View (BEV) transformation. The system detects people, evaluates if they respect a predefined minimum distance, and provides visual feedback with bounding boxes and a BEV plot.
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2020 People Detection and Counting In/Out Line
- A people detection using Yolo v3 and Deep Sort to count people who passes a certain line that delimits the entrance of a place. This program can count the people who get into the place or get out.
Honors and Awards
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2023 - Community Competition Host Kaggle Award
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2022 - 1st Place Kaggle DATATHON ENTEL 2022 - Challenge 2
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2021 - 2nd Place Laboratoria Hackhathon
- 1st Place BNP Paribas LATAM Data Science Challenge 2021
- 1st Place Bancolombia Datathon 2020
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2020 - 2nd Ab Inbev LATAM Brewing DataCup 2020
- 1st Place Data Science Challenge LATAM BNP Paribas 2021
- 1st Place Bancolombia Datathon 2020
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2019 - 1st Place Data Talent Movistar 2019
- 1st Place Pichincha Bank Datathon 2019
Academic Interests
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Machine Learning & Deep Learning
- Supervised Machine Learning Applications
- Explainability Machine Learning
- Computer Vision Applications
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Generative AI
- Reasoning Models
- Small Language Models
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Trekking, Music, Playing piano or guitar, Gym, Tae-Kwon-Do