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Basics

Name Hugo Garrido-Lestache Belinchon
Label M.S. Machine Learning Student
Email Hugo@garrido-lestache.co.uk
Url https://hugogales.github.io/
Summary Interested in AI, Reinforcement Learning, and cooperative multi‑agent systems; 1st in NVIDIA ROSIE Supercomputer Challenge. Published author attending ICMLA 2025.

Work

  • 2025.01 - Present
    Research Assistant
    MSOE
    Developing TAAC, a novel Multi‑Agent Reinforcement Learning algorithm to promote collaboration.
    • Advisor: Jeremy Kedziora, Ph.D.
    • Used self-play, curriculum learning, and attention-based actor-critic methods to achieve state-of-the-art performance in soccer and tower-building environments.
    • Published at ICMLA 2025; presented research and released code and blog.
    • Came 1st in the MSOE NVIDIA ROSIE Supercomputer Challenge, winning over $9,000 in prizes.
  • 2023.11 - Present
    Data Science Intern
    Direct Supply
    Built and improved AI systems for product data: web scraping, linking, and tagging.
    • Reverse Image Search: Prototyped a system to search for products by image for faster retrieval and matching.
    • AI Product Web Scraper: Created an AI tool to search, parse and combine unstructured data on the internet to augment the company’s quality and quantity of data.
    • AI Product Linking: Improved AI systems to match products together based on semantic similarity.
    • AI Product Tagging: Created a System to add tags/attributes to products automatically based on product data. This data can be used to group and filter products and feed future AI Models.
    • Developed and Deployed to AWS Full-Stack (FastAPI/React) web application prototypes.
    • Heavily utilized OpenAI and Groq, pre-trained LLMs and embedding models.
  • 2023.09 - 2023.12
    Programming Tutor
    MSOE
    Tutored approximately 20 students weekly in programming concepts.

Volunteer

  • 2024.10 - Present

    Milwaukee, WI

    Mentor
    MSOE AI Club
    Mentoring undergraduates on AI. 2025 cohort built a CNN; 2026 projects include agentic video segmentation, stock prediction, and image colorization.
  • 2020.09 - 2022.06

    United Kingdom

    Adult Scout Leader
    UK Scouts
    Planned events and taught skills to scouts (20–25 youth).

Education

  • 2025.01 - 2026.08

    Milwaukee, WI

    M.S.
    Milwaukee School of Engineering
    Machine Learning
  • 2023.06 - 2023.06

    Lucca, Italy

    Short Course
    University of Lucca
    Game Design & Game Theory Course
  • 2022.09 - 2025.12

    Milwaukee, WI

    B.S.
    Milwaukee School of Engineering
    Computer Science

Awards

Publications

Skills

Languages
Python
SQL
Java
C#
C++
C
HTML
Concepts
AI
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Statistics
EDA
Agile & Scrum
Algorithms
Transformers
Embedding Models
PPO
Q-Learning
TAAC
KNN
KMeans
SARIMA
Technologies
Git
Vim
LLM
RAG
AWS
Docker
Databricks
Android SDK
APIs
PyTorch
TensorFlow
FastAPI
React
Groq
Other
Fluent in Spanish
Learning Portuguese
UK & Spanish Citizen

Languages

English
Fluent
Spanish
Native
Portuguese
Learning

Interests

Hobbies
Guitar
Climbing
Puzzles
Yo-yo
Cooking
Unicycle
Gaming
YouTube