Francisco Martin

Francisco is the CEO at BigML, Inc where he helps conceptualize, design, architect, and implement BigML's distributed Machine Learning platform. Formerly, Francisco founded and led Strands, Inc, a company that pioneered Behavior-based Recommender Systems. Previously, he founded and led Intelligent Software Components, SA (iSOCO), the first spin-off of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He holds a 5-year degree in Computer Science, a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, and a post-doc in Machine Learning. He is the holder of more than 20 patents in the areas of Recommender Systems and Machine Learning.