Eduardo Balmaceda

Program Manager European Military Research in Ai & Cyber Defence @European Commission

London, GB

Lead multiple European Commission–funded projects with consortium partners and European Ministries of Defence in AI, Cybersecurity, and Information Warfare.• Direct cross-organizational engineering teams, including AI scientists and LLM specialists, to design and implement next-generation intelligence capabilities.• Drive the design, prototyping, testing, and demonstration of a holistic toolbox for misinformation countermeasures and AI-enhanced intelligence workflows.• Oversee the development and fine-tuning of LLMs, tailoring models to deliver mission-specific features and measurable performance improvements.• Oversee dataset strategy—curating, cleaning, and annotating training data, and leveraging synthetic data generation with GPT-style models to accelerate development and improve model robustness.• Manage accurate, timely project reporting on progress, financials, and KPIs, fully aligned with EU requirements, ethical standards, and emerging AI regulatory frameworks.• Lead software architecture and development reviews across system, subsystem, and component levels, ensuring scalability, security, data lifecycle coverage, and interoperability.

Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)

Bachelor's degree, BSc INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

City St George’s, University of London

Master's degree, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)

Master's degree, MSc ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

American Society for Quality

Certified Six Sigma Green Belt, Quality

ISACA

CISM, Information Security