PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Edgar Osuna

Also known as E. Osuna, Edgar E. Osuna

Edgar Osuna is an AI researcher whose early support vector machine work applied the method to face detection. His MIT PhD thesis centers on SVM training, and he shares the 2007 Longuet-Higgins Prize for his 1997 CVPR face-detection paper. At TODO1 in January 2022, he describes graph technology for financial fraud; in 2025, he serves as Chief Data & Analytics Officer at iuvity and discusses digital banking analytics. As of October 2026, he is Chief Data & Analytics Officer at iuvity.

Timeline

  1. 1997

    Training SVMs for face detection

    In 1997, he coauthors “Training Support Vector Machines: an Application to Face Detection” with Robert M. Freund and Federico Girosi.

  2. 1998

    An MIT thesis on SVMs

    His 1998 PhD thesis, Support Vector Machines: Training and Applications, appears in MIT's course reading list. He receives his PhD from MIT.

  3. 2002

    Convex hulls in SVM space

    He coauthors “Convex Hull in Feature Space for Support Vector Machines” with Osberth De Castro for the Advances in Artificial Intelligence proceedings in 2002.

  4. 2007

    A Longuet-Higgins Prize

    He shares the 2007 Longuet-Higgins Prize with Robert M. Freund and Federico Girosi for “Training Support Vector Machines: An Application to Face Detection.”

  5. January 2022

    Graph fraud detection at TODO1

    In January 2022, he is Chief Data and Analytics Officer at TODO1 and describes how graphs help revamp its fraud detection and prevention system for real-time financial crime.

  6. 2025

    Data analytics at iuvity

    In 2025, he serves as Chief Data & Analytics Officer at iuvity and discusses advanced analytics, personalized banking, and digital transformation. He calls for regulation and controls as fintechs interact with the financial system.

  7. As of October 2026

    Chief Data & Analytics Officer

    As of October 2026, he is Chief Data & Analytics Officer at iuvity.

  1. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI from 1961 to 2025, with a year-by-year chart.
  2. The United States employs an estimated 53% of people in our data with a known employment countryOur estimates of where AI careers are concentrated now and how countries’ shares of dated positions changed over time.
  3. 46% of living people in our data with known birth and employment countries work outside their birth countryOur estimate of cross-border careers in AI, from country of birth and the country of each current organization.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionOur estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Robert M. Freund - MIT Personal Faculty mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Readings | Networks for Learning: Regression and Classification | MIT OpenCourseWare ocw.mit.edu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Jim Webber with Dr. Edgar Osuna: Using graphs to take down fraudsters neo4j.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Edgar Osuna csauthors.net. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Computer Vision Awards – The Computer Vision Foundation thecvf.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. La apuesta de iuvity por la transformación digital bancaria mobiletime.la. Checked 19 October 2026.
  7. Panamá debe caminar a economía del conocimiento panamaamerica.com.pa. Checked 19 October 2026.
  8. iuvity | Nuestros líderes iuvity.com. Checked 19 October 2026.