Data Scientist
2026 - Present
Mercado Libre
Optimization and training of LLMs for tasks inside the Mercado Libre ecosystem, including pipelines for distributed LLM training.
AI Engineering at Universidad de San Andres · Data Scientist at Mercado Libre
Ignacio Schuemer
I am driven by the idea that artificial intelligence can become a practical tool for solving meaningful problems. I like building systems that connect research with real applications, combining curiosity, engineering, and a focus on impact. Through projects, research, and industry work, I try to turn technical ideas into useful tools.
Experience
Research Assistant
2025 - 2026
Universidad de San Andres
Synthetic photorealistic dataset generation with automated capture and labeling for future YOLO training, combining NVIDIA Isaac Sim, ROS2, and drone navigation simulation.
Research Assistant
2024 - 2026
Universidad de San Andres and Northwestern University
Autonomous system classification across the Internet using LLMs, machine learning, and web data collection.
Teaching Assistant
2024 - 2025
Computer Architecture and Operating Systems
Supported students on computer systems fundamentals, memory management, concurrency, C, assembly, Linux, and practical problem solving.
Projects
Football Commentator
2025
Real-time automatic commentary from a modified Google Research Football simulation using event extraction, LLM generation, and Coqui TTS.
- NLP
- TTS
- gRPC
- Distributed Systems
- PyTorch
Wildlife Monitoring with Thermal Imaging
2024
Automated wildlife detection from RGB and thermal drone imagery using YOLOv5 and YOLOv11 for a computer vision course project.
- Computer Vision
- YOLO
- Deep Learning
SUV Price Prediction for Mercado Libre
2024
Price estimation for SUV listings using machine learning models, including XGBoost and deep learning baselines.
- Machine Learning
- XGBoost
- Deep Learning
Voice Analysis Research
2024
Experimental protocol and signal processing pipeline for vocal samples, including Python filtering and neural denoising with DeepFilterNet.
- Signal Processing
- Python
- DeepFilterNet
Awards
- First place, HackITBA 2025 - Sustainability category
- First place, UIA and Siemens Hackathon 2025
- Second place, AI E-Commerce Challenge by Trafilea, AWS, and Mutt Data
- Third place, Quantum Jam Hackathon by ITBA and IBM Quantum
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Artificial Intelligence
Universidad de San Andres, 2022 - 2026. GPA 8.96/10.
Technician in Electronics
EEST No. 6, 2015 - 2021. GPA 9.35/10.
Skills
- Python
- PyTorch
- Scikit-Learn
- OpenCV
- XGBoost
- LLMs
- Computer Vision
- ROS2
- Isaac Sim
- C
- C++
- Java
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Linux