Gaston Rijo De León

Gaston Rijo De León

Honorary Intern

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Bioinformatics PhD

  • Education

    • Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII)

      2021 - 2024
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Human Evolutionary Genetics
    • Universidad de la República

      2013 - 2018
      Biochemistry Undegraduate Biochemistry
    • Université Paris Cité

      2021 - 2024
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Biology
    • Universidad de la República

      2019 - 2021
      Master's degree Bioinformatics

      In my Master's degree thesis I extended previous methods for detecting natural selection in hierarchically structured populations to account for recent admixture events.

  • Experience

    • Institut Pasteur de Montevideo

      Nov 2016 - Jul 2021
      Honorary Intern

      I was associated with Unidad de Bioinformática, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo as an honorary intern researching trypanosomatid genomics (Bachelor's thesis) and developing computational methods for population genomics (Master's thesis).

    • Universidad de la República

      May 2017 - Jun 2021
      Ayudante del Departamento de Genética

      Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant at the Department of Genetics. Courses involved basic genetics, molecular genetics, and developmental genetics.Ayudante del Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Medicina, UdelaR con funciones de acción tutorial en el Ciclo Introductorio y el CBCC

    • Institut Pasteur

      Oct 2021 - Dec 2024

      I supervise article submissions and coordinate between authors and specialist editors in the student-led scientific outreach magazine Piplettes

      • Piplettes Head of Submissions

        Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
      • Junior Researcher/ PHD Student

        Oct 2021 - Nov 2024
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization

      DeepLearning.AI
      Mar 2025
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    • Neural Networks and Deep Learning

      DeepLearning.AI
      Sept 2023
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