David Lopez Mateos

David is Chief Science Officer at Pace, where he leads the data science efforts and, most prominently, the design of the dynamic pricing engine that is revolutionizing Revenue Management for hotels. Prior to this David was a VP Research at Winton Capital. before Winton he worked on deep learning applied to computer vision problems at Nauto, a Silicon Valley based AI-powered intelligent driver safety company. David holds Computer Science and Physics degrees from MIT and did his PhD in experimental Particle Physics at Caltech. His first exposure to Machine Learning models was using classification models for extraction of the Higgs boson signal as part of the discovery team at CERN. While he considers himself more of a full-stack data scientist, he is currently particularly interested in applications of Reinforcement Learning and decision making in the face of uncertainty.