Santiago Ruiz Zapata
Data Scientist
Santiago has an educational background in industrial engineering, operations research, and machine learning.
In the last years, Santiago has been working extensively with computer vision to make real-time detections of the flight preparation process with the ultimate aim of reducing flight delays. Santiago’s passion is to develop data-driven solutions to help improve people’s life.
Data Leadership Day Talk:
Tackling Flight Delays and Optimizing Turnaround Time with AI
Have you ever boarded a plane and then waited endlessly before takeoff? Ever wondered why it took so long? The people working at airport operations are often wondering the same, and with the advent of computer vision, we can now meticulously map the whole turnaround and conclude which processes are causing delays.
We’ll present Schiphol Amsterdam Airport’s journey to open the black box that is the turnaround. We’ll show how we went from data generation to use-case discovery, and business implementation. Turns out we can do more with this data than we anticipated!