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PROFILE

Based on diverse technical studies, a professional graduate training program and several years of international experience and management in finance, IT and artificial intelligence, I am very capable and eager to help optimize your business. The clients’ actual needs and best possible solutions to do so are my focus and my greatest strength lies in efficient conception and the skill and will to pass it on in a way that anyone can understand and follow. Creativity and quality are of highest value to me and I can contribute a lot to thanks to my interdisciplinary and global background.

SKILLS

Beginner

JQuery, Typescript, React, Node.js,
C, C++, C#, FORTRAN, Perl

Unity, UE5

Proficient

HTML, CSS, Javascript,
Java, SQL, Quantum Computing,

Team and Company Management,
Agile, Risk Control, QA

Expert

Python, VBA, Excel, R, Matlab, LaTeX,
AWS, Azure, GCP Clouds

Automation, Data Science, Machine Learning
Languages, Actuary, AI

DS and AI Projects

  • RLFH training of an open-source ChatGPT competitor and extensions, the OpenAssistant.
  • Reinforcement learning applications and benchmarks. Time Series forecasting, benchmarking and resultant process optimizations with ML and DL.
  • Application of an NLP transformer for the Google ARC challenge and Mindfire ARC2 challenge contributions towards abstraction and reasoning capabilities for further progress towards real AGI, Mindfire.
  • Contrast, Exposure, Blur ML detection models for automatic quality filter of photo inputs from the developed mobile app.
    Combined with custom trained ML object detection and segmentation models for automatic car damage detection and estimation,
    AXA car insurance
  • Winner for travel insurance using AWS Kendra and Lex for automatic information retrieval,
    ETH Datathon
  • StyleGan2 Model research and implementations for animated character generation and AI image editing,
    for Hotpot.ai
  • An Ml-based churn model for employee churn to better predict and enable early action,
    Accenture
  • Multi-Modal object and scene detection from word or sentence description for, e.g. automatic scene retrieval, better video search and automatic quality assurance in the industry,
    QuantumSense.ml
  • Double Project Winner development of GIS DL building identification from satellite imagery using YOLO and CLIP for unique building zero-shot or few shot identifications,
    SwissRe
  • Time Series forecasting for an automotive superconductor battery company in Europe, lowering testing times by 80 to 90% of battery cells, thanks to the forecasting and early anomaly detection, such as voltage decay, using machine and deep learning from linear regression to transformers
  • Web platform for automatic data augmentation and synthetic data generation, Daita.tech
  • Final project winner with a project on frequency and price comparison of Uber versus various taxi firms in New York as well as pricing flights, CorrelationOne and Harvard professor.
    This consequently led to developing an automatic pdf OCR, clustering and classification system, for the Colombian government directly with the president and MinTic
  • Further expanded to transformer architecture on classic clouds as an NLP web application for insurance claims verification automation, for several health insurances and banks.
    First implementation on hybrid quantum cloud
  • Semantic Search RNN with Skipthought together with University of Toronto trained on one million books as a crossplatform chatbot in medicine and biology at Sota recall at the time of 85%, QuantumSense
  • VBA automation, batch processing, speedup, complexity reduction and debugging of quantitative tools for pension reserves calculations and Monte Carlo methods for investment portfolio optimizations, Marsh&McLennan
  • Automatic Cloud detection algorithm directly on the nanosatelittes, for decacorn Planet
    Quantitative and statistical algorithms for better GPS matching as a digital competitor to Foxtrails, for Challenge Earth Gmbh Drallo app
  • Sota Tagger and Parser NLP benchmarks, Cambridge University
  • During my role as risk manager in market risk building VaR and stress models for various countries and portfolios, UBS
    Later Credit default detection model using Random Forest for feature selection and binary classification from time series data, one of the leading US online lenders
  • Master thesis on Quantum NLP, modeling words and sentences as tensors instead of only vectors or matrices as extension to Google's Word2Vec, Oxford University

EDUCATION

  • Certifications and Specializations Data Science, BI, NLP, ML, DL, RL, MLOps
    Deeplearning.ai, Coursera by Andrew Ng and Business Science University by Matt Dancho
  • MBA Quantic School of Business and Technology (top 1%),
    Quantic.edu
  • Frontend & Full-Stack Developer, and Machine Learning Bootcamps,
    BICTIA
    DataScience4All (top 3%),
    Mintic
  • Data Analytics, Deep Learning, Advanced NLP,
    Online: Coursera, Stanford, MIT, Oxford, Edx
  • ML, QML, Quantum Physics, Business Dev.,
    CDL, Rotmann School of Management,
    UofT
  • Fusion and Parallel Programming,
    Lisboa Technical Uni
  • HT Training on Particle Physics, HTC and Cosmology,
    CERN
  • Cryptography,
    Swiss Army Coy,
    Uni Berne
  • MPhil in Applied Linguistics and Advanced Computer Science, Cambridge Uni
  • MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science, Oxford Uni
  • BSc in Mathematics and Physics with specialization in Astronomy,
    Uni Berne
  • Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy, SDSU
  • Mathematics and Applied Physics, UCSD
  • CPE, Global Village, Hawaii
  • Matura, High School Oberaargau, Switzerland
  • Secondary School, Huttwil, Switzerland

Experience

2017-2023: Founder and Head of AI / QuantumSense, Toronto and Montreal, Canada

  • Accelerators of CDL and Holt (top 2.5%) in Toronto and Montreal, Communitech in Waterloo, YC startup school in San Fran and NVIDIA Inception
  • Multi-Modal Semantic Search and Processing, Automatic Fraud Detection, Top Recall of over 90%
  • ML research and development: QuantumSense.ML
  • Accounting, Marketing, HR and Financials
  • Business Development
  • Entrepreneur, CEO

2016-2017: QA / SIX, Zurich and Bienne, Switzerland

  • Test Development in Embedded Kanban Team, manual and automatic Testing
  • Mobile Payment Solution of Paymit and Twint 2.0 with many million users
  • External and Internal Test Support
  • Credit Card management
  • ATMs test maintenance
  • Test Management

2014-2016: Actuary and Head of IT / Mercer of Marsh & McLennan, Zurich and Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Automation of the workflow via development in Excel, VBA, AddIns etc. 1000s of hours of work every year
  • Consolidation with management worldwide and the other departments and sister companies
  • Quantitative engine development and new features
  • Monthly financial and actuarial reports
  • Intranet Management
  • IT Management

2013-2014: Website and App Development / Challenge Earth Gmbh, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Win4Youth and drallo.ch, armee.ch with +100k users, and Notebookcheck.net one of the top 500 most visited websites
  • Website maintenance and app development
  • Business Development, Marketing and Sales
  • Quantitative engine optimization
  • Startup Founding
  • IT Management

2012-2013: Planet / San Francisco and Oxford, USA and UK

  • Sending proprietary nanonsatellites to low earth orbit for imagery of every point on earth every day
  • Hardware installation and coordination at observatories for the tracking
  • Business dev. of first international expansion, Marketing and Sales
  • Optimization of image filtering algorithms
  • IT Management, Big Data
  • Growing to unicorn

2011-2012: Risk Management and GTP / UBS, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Cover and consolidate all the major markets in the world with Bloomberg for 100s bn portfolio
  • Graduate Training Program with courses at UBS University
  • Debugging and development of various Risk tools
  • Creation of specific risk, VaR and Stress scenarios
  • Daily risk reports to Management
  • Portfolio analysis

Languages

Swiss German, German, English, Spanish, French, Latin, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin

Hobbies & Interests

Reading, Movies, Racket Sports, Skiing,
Astronomy, Artifical Intelligence, Science and Technologies of the Future.