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About María
María is a biomedical engineer from Madrid who graduated first in her class at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where she later did a Master's in Machine Learning for Health. During her degree she did two research stays in the US: at Georgia Tech, analyzing cardiopulmonary signals, and at Purdue, building deep learning models for structural biology that led to a peer-reviewed publication. Back in Madrid she worked as an AI researcher at Gregorio Marañón hospital on arrhythmia detection, and her team won first place in the 2026 George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge with SIREN, a model that predicts cognitive impairment years before symptoms from sleep study data. She was part of the Exponential community for almost two years and came to many events. Exponential is not a biotech specialist, so María went out and met some of the most interesting biotech startups in Silicon Valley herself. An intro to Mar Hershenson and Pear VC led to an offer from Invoke Bio, and in August she moved to San Francisco as a Founding Engineer, building AI models for personalized cancer vaccines.
Exponential Fellowship
2026Fall cohort
- Works at
- Invoke Bio
- Based in
- San Francisco, USA
Experience
Before the fellowship
Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón
Purdue University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Education
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Biomedical Engineering