Nina Montaña Brown
FounderFounder at Mecha Health
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedMecha Health · YC
About
Nina Montaña Brown holds a PhD in Medical Imaging from UCL with research focused on surgical vision. She has worked as an ML engineer at multiple medical device startups with experience in FDA and CE-marked devices, and has expertise in LLM safety applications within healthcare.
Founder at Mecha HealthYC W25
Intro paths
YC
Nina went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Co-founders at Mecha Health
Experience
- Mecha HealthCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- UCLMPhil/PhD Studentcurrent2020 — present
- TORTUSMachine Learning Engineer2023 — 2025London Area, United Kingdom
- Verdure Imaging Inc.Research Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer2020 — 2025
- Odin VisionResearch Scientist Intern2022Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- UCLMRes Medical Imaging2019 — 2020London, Greater London, United Kingdom
- UCLMSci Medical Physics2015 — 2019London, United Kingdom
- UCLSummer Research Intern2018London Area, United Kingdom
- AccentureTech Visionaries Spring2018London Area, United Kingdom
- EPSRCEPSRC Vacation Bursary Studentship2017UCL
- Serecon97Software Consultant Summer Intern2016Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
- SENDINData And Systems Summer Intern2014Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Skills & more
LangChainOpenAI ProductsSpanish1English1FrenchMicrosoft Azure Machine LearningFirebaseCloud FirestoreReact.jsJavaScriptPyTorchPython1
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Microsoft OfficeLaTeXMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft WordMatlabTensorFlowKeraspythonLinuxAnacondaLarge Language Models (LLM)Research and Development (R&D)Languages English · French · Spanish
- Data or Specimens Only Research — CITI Program
- Conflicts of Interest — CITI Program
- IELTS Academic Certification in English — United Latino Students Association
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Nina Montaña Brown?
- Nina Montaña Brown holds a PhD in Medical Imaging from UCL with research focused on surgical vision. She has worked as an ML engineer at multiple medical device startups with experience in FDA and CE-marked devices, and has expertise in LLM safety applications within healthcare.
- Where does Nina Montaña Brown work?
- Nina Montaña Brown is Founder of Mecha Health.
- What companies did Nina Montaña Brown found?
- Nina Montaña Brown founded Mecha Health.
- Where did Nina Montaña Brown go to school?
- Nina Montaña Brown studied at UCL (Integrated Master of Science (MSci), Health/Medical Physics); King's College, Soto de Viñuelas (High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates).
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