Data Scientist
Jan 2025 — Present
- UEFA: ticket fraud detection, marketing chatbot, match risk scoring
Juan David Prada Malagón
Senior Data Scientist · Mathematical Physicist
Bridging research and industry through AI, mathematics, and intelligent systems
Senior Data Scientist and Mathematical Physicist with 6+ years building end-to-end ML/AI systems from scratch across a wide spectrum of industries — cybersecurity, sports, smart cities, government, automotive, high-precision engineering, and scientific research — turning messy, challenging real-world problems into rigorous models and measurable decisions.
Experience
Senior Data Scientist
Jan 2021 — Dec 2025
- Head of DS & Applied Math — smart city, transport, government auditing, fraud and decision systems
Algorithms Engineer
Apr 2023 — Dec 2024
- Adaptive Authentication platform — risk model, API, and end-to-end delivery
Scientific Consultant (Freelance)
Dec 2019 — Dec 2025
- DS/ML products and research collaborations across industry and science
Strategy Consultant
Mar 2020 — Jul 2020
- Mathematical models for investment analysis and competitiveness strategy in business
Education
Master in Quantum Computing
Mar 2025 — Present
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR)
Quantum Computing, theoretical and experimental — Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Machine Learning, Quantum Optimization, Quantum Programming (Qiskit, IBM Quantum, D-Wave), Quantum Information, Quantum Hardware, and Post-Quantum Cryptography.
Master of Science in Advanced Mathematics
Sep 2022 — Sep 2023
Universitat de Barcelona
Research in Topological Machine Learning / Topological Data Analysis (TDA); Applied Mathematics, Probability Theory, Numerical Analysis, and Scientific Computing.
Research Fellowship / Master 1, Mathematical Physics (Math4Phys)
Sep 2021 — Jun 2022
Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté
Research fellowship in Mathematical Physics — led “Multi-Domain Spectral Approach for the Computation of Fourier Transform”; Numerical Analysis, Spectral Methods, PDEs, and High-Performance Scientific Computing, contributing to research published in Physica D.
Bachelor of Science, Physics & Mathematics
Aug 2014 — Dec 2019
Universidad de los Andes
Mathematical-Physics, Experimental Physics, and Scientific Computing, combined with Applied Mathematics, Optimization, and Probability Theory.
Certifications
- Specialization in Deep Learning (Ruta a través de la Ciencia de Datos) — Colegio de Matemáticas BourbakiMay 2022 — Dec 2022
- Machine Learning & AI — Colegio de Matemáticas BourbakiMay 2023
- Aplicaciones Financieras de Inteligencia Artificial — Colegio de Matemáticas BourbakiMay 2023
- Applied Machine Learning — Columbia EngineeringJun 2019
- Data Science Summer School — Hertie School — Data Science Lab2021 & 2022
Tool Box
Languages
- Python
- SQL
- R
- C/C++
- Java
- Matlab
- Octave
- Delphi
Data & Platforms
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Docker
- Git
- Apache Airflow
- MLFlow
ML / AI stack
- NumPy
- pandas
- SciPy
- scikit-learn
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- Keras
- Hugging Face
- XGBoost
- LightGBM
- spaCy
- OpenCV
- LangChain
- FastAPI
- Streamlit
- Spark
- PySpark
Quantum
- Qiskit
- IBM Quantum
- D-Wave
Visualization & BI
- Matplotlib
- Seaborn
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Qlik
Languages
- Spanish · Native
- English · Bilingual (IELTS C1)
- Catalan · Basic
- German · Basic (A2)
- French · Basic (A2)