Raphael Labaca Castro

Education

2017 - 2022 Universität der Bundeswehr München – Germany
Ph.D. in Adversarial Machine Learning (summa cum laude with distinction)
2012 - 2016 Universidad de Buenos Aires – Argentina
Master in Information Security – Thesis grade: 100%
2009 - 2010 Ruhr Universität Bochum – Germany
Exchange undergraduate student at the Institute for Neural Computation
2004 - 2011 Universidad Tecnológica Nacional – Argentina
B.S. & M.S. in Information Systems – Distinguished Graduate (Top 5% of class)

02/2022 - Present Sandbox AQ (Munich, Germany): Senior ML Engineer
Leading an ML team in the nexus of AI and quantum disciplines
10/2017 – 01/2022 Research Institute CODE (Munich, Germany): Doctoral Researcher
Research on adversarial ML and interested on understanding adversarial attacks against ML classifiers
02/2021 – 02/2022 Google X (Munich, Germany): AI Resident
Launched a new project to support crypto-agility within organizations
02/2020 – 05/2020 Google X (Mountain View, CA, USA): AI Resident
Accomplished up to 10x performance improvement to optimize a real-world challenging problem
11/2018 – 02/2019 Deep Science Ventures (London, UK): ML Researcher
Developing novel AI models to optimize the chemistry of batteries. Proto-founder
04/2011 – 09/2017 ESET (Argentina & Germany): Research Team Lead
After 1 year as a security researcher promoted to lead the area in Argentina and then relocated to Germany to be in charge of an international global team. Media appearance and interviews

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional: 2nd highest GPA of graduation class
DAAD Computer Engineering Scholarship : 7th out of 120+ candidates in Argentina for a 6-month AI program in Europe, including best motivation letter and second best German language test results at national level