Miguel Fierro

Miguel Fierro

I help people bridge the gap from learning AI theory to getting AI results using my method “Reverse Learning” • xMicrosoft • 4x AI Founder

United Kingdom
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You see AI everywhere — in the news, in your company, in every job posting. And there's a voice in your head saying: "I'm falling behind."

You've tried to keep up. You use ChatGPT. You've taken courses, maybe have a certificate. And yet when someone asks "what can you do with AI?", you don't have an answer.

It's not your fault. The entire AI education industry is designed to sell you knowledge, not to help you build proof.

The professionals who are actually getting ahead with AI (hired at top tech companies, getting promoted, leading projects), have one thing in common: they've built something real, a result that can be verified.

I'm Miguel Fierro. I've spent 10 years at Microsoft building production AI. I'm the creator of Recommenders (20K+ GitHub stars, used by Fortune 500s) and 4x AI founder.

After 10 years at Microsoft, I noticed a pattern nobody talks about: companies don't want people who know AI theory, they want people who build useful AI and leaders who can drive that transformation.

At Microsoft, I watched this pattern again and again. The developer who shipped one real AI project got the offer over candidates with 10 courses on their resume. The business leader who automated one workflow got the promotion over colleagues who could only talk about AI.

The gap is never knowledge. It's proof.

- Developers don't need another tutorial, they need a deployed project, a clean GitHub repo, and a README that tells a story a recruiter can follow in 30 seconds.
- Business professionals don't need to learn to code, they need one working AI workflow that saves time or makes money, and a case study that proves it.

Now I help people bridge their careers to AI, by using a method called Reverse Learning: instead of months of theory first, you start by building and learn what you need along the way.

Some people I helped:
- Daniel Labbe: from Solution Architect to AI Engineer at Microsoft.
- Nikolaos Zavitsanos: from Software Engineer to AI Engineer at AWS.
- Paolo Colecchia: from Software Engineer to AI Engineer at Microsoft.
- Tanuja Bhamidipati: from Software Engineer to AI Solution Architect at Microsoft.
- ... and hundreds more.

If you're ready to stop stop collecting courses and start building proof, send me a DM, and I'll see how I can help you.

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Experience

  • RecoMind Graphic

    Founder

    RecoMind

    - Present 6 months

    RecoMind helps B2C companies increase profit with AI-powered personalization: search, recommendations, and a sales chatbot that learns from every customer interaction.

    We also provide Customer360 (unified customer profiles) and Market Intelligence (competitive and market analysis) to drive smarter business decisions.

    Our team has generated over $500M in revenue for customers using personalization.

  • Signature Management Consultants Graphic

    Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

    Signature Management Consultants

    - Present 6 months

    Oversee all AI initiatives across strategic consulting and venture building.

  • IE University Graphic

    Adjunct Professor

    IE University

    - Present 4 years

    I'm helping a new generation of students to understand and apply AI.

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    Principal Data Scientist Manager

    Microsoft

    - 9 years 8 months

    London & Madrid

    Started as a Data Scientist and grew to Principal Data Scientist Manager.
    My team has supported multiple industries such as retail, gaming, finance, marketing, e-commerce, energy, media, manufacturing, and others. We implement solutions in a wide range of AI areas including recommendation systems, natural language processing, computer vision, time series forecasting, and other machine learning techniques.
    Our repository Recommenders ➡️➡️ https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders…

    Started as a Data Scientist and grew to Principal Data Scientist Manager.
    My team has supported multiple industries such as retail, gaming, finance, marketing, e-commerce, energy, media, manufacturing, and others. We implement solutions in a wide range of AI areas including recommendation systems, natural language processing, computer vision, time series forecasting, and other machine learning techniques.
    Our repository Recommenders ➡️➡️ https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders is a
    world reference in recommendation systems.

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    Industry Board Member at Dyson School of Design Engineering

    Imperial College London

    - 4 years 6 months

    London, United Kingdom

    I help the College to define its strategic development, research themes, academic programs, and partnerships with the industry.

  • samsamia Graphic

    CEO & Co-Founder

    samsamia

    - 5 years 2 months

    Madrid Area, Spain

    We developed a SaaS solution to increase fashion e-commerce revenue through visual search. Our technology allowed users to take a picture of a garment they liked, and find the most similar garment within the customer's catalog. I led the engineering and sales team. Among our customers, we had one of the biggest e-commerce in the UK and one of the biggest media companies in Spain.

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    External Researcher

    King's College London

    - 3 years 6 months

    London, UK

    Research topics: Learning from Demonstration, Human-Robot Interaction, Markov Chains, and
    Non-linear control.

  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

    7 years 6 months

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      Research Assistant at Robotics Lab

      Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

      - 6 years 6 months

      Madrid Area, Spain

      Research in Machine Learning for robotics: Learning from Demonstration, Computer Vision, kinematic and dynamic control of humanoid robots, and non-linear control. See my publications: ➡️➡️ https://github.com/miguelgfierro/publications

      Professor at several Engineering degrees teaching Control Engineering, Industrial Automation, and Industrial Robotics.

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      Scholarship Researcher in Electric Department

      Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

      - 1 year 1 month

      Development of algorithms to predict the energy price fluctuation in Spanish electrical market focusing in wind turbines.

  • Asociación de Robótica de la Universidad Carlos III Graphic

    President & Co-Founder

    Asociación de Robótica de la Universidad Carlos III

    - 2 years 10 months

    Madrid Area, Spain

    A non-profit student organization at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Development of R&D robotics projects including mobile robots, aerial robots (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs), 3D printers, and small humanoid robots.

Education

  • MIT Sloan School of Management Graphic

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management

    Business Administration, Management and Operations

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  • King's College London Graphic

    Kings College London

    PhD in robotics Robotics Excellent Cum Laude and Outstanding Thesis Award

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    Activities and Societies: Humanoid robots, mobile robots, computer vision, learning from demonstration, skill innovation, intelligent systems, social robots, path planning, kinematics and dynamics

    PhD at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in collaboration with King's College of London. I had over supervisor from Carlos III and another from King's.

    My thesis covers non-linear control, machine learning, postural planning and control of humanoid robots. Development of computer vision algorithms, objects' localization and environment mapping. Trajectory optimization and path planning using genetic algorithms and neural networks.

    I was awarded the Outstanding Thesis Award of UC3M.…

    PhD at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in collaboration with King's College of London. I had over supervisor from Carlos III and another from King's.

    My thesis covers non-linear control, machine learning, postural planning and control of humanoid robots. Development of computer vision algorithms, objects' localization and environment mapping. Trajectory optimization and path planning using genetic algorithms and neural networks.

    I was awarded the Outstanding Thesis Award of UC3M. A list of my publications can be found in https://github.com/miguelgfierro/publications.

  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Graphic

    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

    Master in Robotics and Automation

    Activities and Societies: Humanoid robots, Mobile robots, artificial vision, intelligent systems, social robots, spacial robots, path planning, kinematics and dynamics

    First class honours (top 1%). Degree finished in half the time (9 months) where the normal duration is 1 year and a half.

  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Graphic

    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

    Industrial Engineer Electrical Enginneering

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    Activities and Societies: Physics, analog and digital electronics, control and robotics. Fluids, electromagnetism, partial and differential equations, mechanics, structure analysis, management, marketing, projects management.

    First class honours (top 5%)

Publications

Patents

  • ssm library: Image recognition and similarity for the fashion industry

    Issued ES M-008319/2014

    The solution is a visual search engine adapted to fashion products. The algorithm, named
    Fashion Recognition, is able to recognize a garment in a picture and find a set of garments with a similar
    appearance. The methodology is based on a pipeline consisting of segmentation, feature extraction, feature hashing and feature comparison.

Honors & Awards

  • Top 11 Creator on LinkedIn 2025

    Favikon

    Included among the top 20 Spanish creators on LinkedIn

  • Top Voice on LinkedIn 2025

    LinkedIn

    Given the Top Voice award for 2025.

  • Leading voice in AI 2024

    SmartDev

    Named one of the leading voices in AI together with leaders in the field like Demis Hassabis (Nobel laureate), Yann LeCun (Turing award winner), Andrew Ng (founder of Coursera), Thomas Wolf (founder of Huggingface), and more.

  • Teaching Excelence Award at IE University

    IE University

    Teaching Excellence Award for the course on Chatbots and Recommendation Systems.

  • Top Voice on LinkedIn 2024

    LinkedIn

    Given the Top Voice award for 2024.

  • 2nd top AI creator in Spain on LinkedIn

    Favikon

    I have been recognized as the 2nd top AI creator in Spain on LinkedIn. I'm also among the top 200 creators on LinkedIn in Spain.

  • Top AI Voice on LinkedIn 2023

    LinkedIn

    Given the Top AI Voice award for 2023.

  • Data Scientist of the Year

    Tech Leaders Awards UK

    The Tech Leaders Awards recognise UK’s top tech leaders, innovators and disruptors, who have demonstrated value from the application of technology and drived disruptive innovation in large organizations.

  • University Carlos III Excellence Alumni Award

    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

    The Excellence Alumni Award is the highest honor bestowed by the University Carlos III on alumni. The award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated excellence in their professional careers.

  • Silver medal at Passenger Screening Algorithm Challenge

    Kaggle

    Silver medal in the Kaggle competition of airport passenger screening (the competition with the highest prize so far $1.5M)

  • Outstanding Thesis Award

    Universidad Carlos III of Madrid

    Outstanding Thesis Award in the Doctorate program of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation.

    This award is granted by the University to the best PhD thesis of the year 2015.

  • Finalist of BBVA OpenTalent

    BBVA

    Finalist of the international startup competition OpenTalent among more than 900 projects in the category of technology and innovation.

  • First prize in the 6th Enterpise Challenge at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid

    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

    First position at the University Contest, award given by a Jury formed by Private Investors, Business School members and Business Angels.

  • First Prize 2020 Startup Madrid

    Olympic Games Organization for Madrid2020

    We were selected to represent the olympic game spirit in the candidature of Madrid 2020 for the Olympic Games. The prize was provided by the City Council of Madrid.

  • Finalist of Top Seeds Lab

    Top Seeds Lab

    We were selected as finalist to join Top Seeds Lab accelerator.

  • First Prize Madrid Emprende

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    We won the first prize Madrid Emprende X Premio CIADE al Emprendedor Universitario of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid among 200 projects.

  • Finalist RedEmprendia challenge: Ideas en Acción

    RedEmprendia

    International competition for Spanish, Portuguese and South American spin-offs. Finalist among more than 300 projects.

  • Winner of the VI RobotChallenge 2009 European Robotics Championship

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    Robotic competition of minihumanoids hosted in Vienna. We achieved the first position in the sumo competition and second position in the running competition.

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