Ignacio Ordovás Pascual, PhD

I spent six years analysing X-ray and optical spectra of supermassive black holes before moving into industry. Today I’m a senior data science consultant at SDG Group, where I develop Data Science and AI solutions for companies and take on technical guidance and AI lead tasks. Among the projects I’ve been involved in, I’ve built RAG chatbots used in production, generative-AI assistants for logistics planning, computer-vision defect detection and statistical studies for clients in banking, life sciences, insurance, food and energy.

That scientific background still shapes how I work: I care about getting the question right, measuring things honestly and communicating results succinctly to non-technical audiences. I’m a curious, fast learner and I enjoy mentoring juniors (I’ve mentored graduates in data science and computer vision and directed a Bachelor’s thesis).

Before data science I was an astrophysicist. My PhD at the Institute of Physics of Cantabria studied how dust and gas hide the light of Active Galactic Nuclei (supermassive black holes growing at the centres of galaxies), combining X-ray and optical spectra of hundreds of objects.

My first machine-learning work was also in astronomy: a faster, single-pass k-means for classifying large sets of galaxy spectra.