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General Information

Full Name Bernard Hernandez
Date of Birth 13th April 1989
Languages Spanish, English

Experience

  • 2023 - Present
    Research Fellow
    Imperial College London, London, UK
    • The Centres for Antimicrobial Optimisation Network (CAMO-NET) funded by Wellcome brings together research teams from the University of Liverpool and Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, the University of Cape Town in South Africa, the Infectious Diseases Institute in Uganda, and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil to conduct research to optimize antimicrobial use and improve access to effective treatment for bacterial infections across low-, middle-, and high-resource settings.
  • 2020 - 2023
    Research Associate
    Imperial College London, London, UK
    • Artificial Intelligence and machine learning to devise clinical decision support systems (CDSS) from clinical, physiological and imaging data for the early identification of dengue in low- and middle-income countries.
    • Activities & Awards
      • Featured innovative start-up at Tech Foresight 2040.
      • Techcelerate award (entrepreneurial program), 2020.
      • Assistant supervisor
  • 2014 - 2019
    Research Assistant
    Imperial College London, London, UK
    • Development of a comprehensive and modular data-driven web-based intelligent decision support system to help clinicians prescribe the most appropriate antibiotics at the point of care.
  • 2014
    Software Engineer
    Wide IO LTD, London, UK
    • Start-up working on disruptive products within the quadrangle of Artificial Intelligence, API, IoT, and FinTech to build an ecosystem of data science tools within the cloud to allow organisations to have constant access to state-of-art technology.
  • 2012
    Software Developer (internship)
    IRILL, Paris, France
    • Internship at the Center for Innovation and Research on Free Software (IRILL) under the Leonardo program, 2012. The aim of this one-month internship was to develop e-learning resources such as blog entries, ebooks and games.

Education

  • 2015-2019
    PhD in Computer Science and Healthcare
    Imperial College London, London, UK
    • Thesis
      • Pantelis Georgiou
      • Centre for Bio-Inspired Technology, EEE
      • Data-driven Web-Based Intelligent Decision Support System for Infection Management at the Point of Care.
    • Activities & Awards
      • Participation in the Imperial Festival, 2016-2017.
      • Research placement at UCT, Cape Town, South Africa, 2016.
      • Global Health Fellows Programme at UCT, 2016.
      • Best poster award at EMBRACE conference, 2016.
      • Participation in AMR DxC at University of Edinburgh, 2015.
  • 2011 - 2013
    M.Sc. in Machine Learning (2 years)
    Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Thesis
      • Björkman, Mårten
      • School of Computer Science and Communication
      • Multi-view object recognition and classification. Graph-Based representation of visual features and structured learning and prediction.
  • 2007 - 2013
    B.Sc. in Telecommunications (5 years)
    B.Sc. in Computer Science (3 years)
    Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain
    • Thesis
      • Inmaculada Mora
      • Signal Theory and Communications
      • Algorithms for detection and description of visual features for object recognition. Analysis and applications.
    • Activities & Awards
      • Young researcher's best thesis award, 2013.
      • Leonardo scholarship at IRILL, Paris, France, 2012.
      • Erasmus scholarship at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011.
      • Wireless 4x4 radio-controlled car challenge, 2010.

Honors and Awards

  • 2020
    Imperial College COVID-19 Response Fund (£100,000)
    Granted by the "Imperial College London"
  • 2020
    Featured innovative start-up at Tech Foresight 2040
    Event discussing breakthrough technologies and their potential impact
  • 2020
    Imperial College Techcelerate Award (£30,000)
    Entrepreneurial programme for postdocs to fast-track their business ideas
  • 2016
    Imperial-UCT Global Health Fellows Programme (£3,000)
    Professional skills programe for postdocs with an additional research placement
  • 2016
    ARC Best Poster Award
    Awarded by the "Antimicrobial Research Collaborative"
  • 2015
    Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostics Competition - AMR DxC
    Awarded by the "University of Edinburgh"
  • 2013
    Young Researchers Best Thesis Award (£1,000)
    Awarded by the "Rey Juan Carlos University Social Council"
  • 2012
    Leonardo Scholarship (£1,500)
    Granted by the "Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation"
  • 2011
    Erasmus Scholarship (£5,000)
    Granted by the "Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation"

Courses

  • 2011
    • Machine Learning, Andrew Ng (Stanford)
    • Artificial Intelligence, Sebastian Thrun (Stanford)

Outreach

  • 2017
    Imperial College Festival
    Granted by the "Imperial College London"
  • 2016
    Imperial College Festival
    Granted by the "Imperial College London"
  • 2015
    Imperial College Festival
    Granted by the "Imperial College London"

Publications

See the journals or conference pages for a full list.

Technical Skills

Industry knowledge Machine Learning, Data Manipulation, Clinical Decision Support Systems
Professional skills Project Management, Full-stack developer, Software Testing, Version Control Systems
Languages Python (highly skilled), Matlab, R, Java, C, C++, Javascript, CSS, HTML, PL/SQL, Latex
Python pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, keras, tensorflow, matplotlib, seaborn, plotly, flask, django, celery, ...
Technologies CI/CD - Git, Docker, Travis, Codecov, ReadTheDocs, AWS, Heroku, APIs
Operating Systems Linux, Windows

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Running, Hiking, Travel, ...