Alen Rubilar-Muñoz

Alen Rubilar-Muñoz is a driven entrepreneur and technologist, currently co-founding Velum Labs, an AI privacy company accepted into Y Combinator's F25 batch. His work at Velum Labs focuses on building zero-trust infrastructure for AI using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to enable secure ML inference, training, and database search on encrypted data, addressing privacy concerns in sensitive industries like health tech and finance. 000alen+4

With a strong academic background in computer science and mathematics from Minerva University, supplemented by coursework at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Alen also brings significant research experience. He has conducted deep learning research on protein folding at Vanderbilt University and developed topological neural networks for molecule optimization at Leipzig University, demonstrating his expertise in advanced machine learning applications. 000alen+1

Alen is an accomplished hackathon participant, having won awards at events like CalHacks, HackMIT, and Solve for Tomorrow. His projects include 'Pulsebud,' a real-time seizure prediction system for smartwatches, showcasing his practical application of machine learning to real-world problems and his innovative problem-solving skills. 000alen+3