Javier Iparraguirre¶

I am Director of Machine Learning at Teladoc Health, where I lead teams that turn research and development into tangible business outcomes. I am also a Professor at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Bahía Blanca and a researcher with the BHI-Research group, where my work focuses on video understanding and efficient, self-supervised models. I am based in Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Research & publications Contact
Latest
Our paper pico-JEPA v2: When Do Many Small Models Beat One Big Model? was presented at CACIC 2026 (October 2026). An ensemble of tiny 3.4M-parameter models beats a single model by 5.1 points on a 30-class video classification task. Project page · All publications
Research Interests¶
- Video understanding and multimodal AI
- Self-supervised and unsupervised learning (JEPA, video summarization)
- Small, efficient models that run on everyday hardware
- High-performance computing and optimization
Education¶
- Ph.D. in Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, 2015
- M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007, as a Fulbright Scholar
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, 2003