Working on LLMs and thinking about consciousness,
sometimes both at once.
sometimes both at once.
Papers
My academic papers and preprints.
Experience
Data Scientist
Built LLM applications including workflow automation, talk-to-your-data tools (RAG, text2sql), and multi-agent systems. Also worked on data engineering with Spark.
PhD Candidate in Computational Neuroscience
University of Amsterdam
- Worked as part of the ARC-INTREPID project: an adversarial collaboration between three neuroscientific theories of consciousness.
Research Assistant
Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH/UZH
- Wrote an original research article based on my master thesis, published in Biological Cybernetics.
Data Scientist
- Developed a significant part of Darts, an open source library for time series forecasting, including statistical and deep learning-based forecasting tools. Presented Darts at the EuroPython 2021 conference and the PyData Global 2021 conference. During the time I worked on Darts, its GitHub page went from 0 to over 3.3k stars.
- Built a ML-based predictive maintenance tool for a Swiss hydro power plant, all the way from exploratory data analysis and model development to backtesting and deployment.
- Developed a demand forecasting solution for a Swiss manufacturer of laboratory and industry equipment which improved their existing forecasts by 10% - 50% (depending on the metric).
- Co-hosted multiple technical public webinars revolving around topics in data science and machine learning.
Machine Learning Engineer
Devised and built machine learning solutions for small and medium-sized Swiss banks.
Education
MSc Neural Systems and Computation
Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zürich & University of Zürich
- Developed a novel, bio-inspired continual learning algorithm called sparse-recurrent DFC as part of my master thesis, which received the maximum grade.
- Showcased poster about my master thesis at the AI+X Summit 2022.
- Presented my work at an IROS 2022 workshop on continual learning.
- Founded Qualiaheads, a student club and reading group on consciousness science. Conducted interviews with researchers such as Anil Seth and Pedro Mediano.
- Finished degree with a weighted GPA of 5.8 out of 6.
Computer Science Program
University of Pennsylvania
- Took courses at the computer science department and the Wharton business school.
- Received honorable mention for Facebook-sponsored award in a project-based coding competition as part of the NETS 212 course (among top 4 of 54 teams).
- Finished the semester with a GPA of 3.75 out of 4.
BSc Computer Science
ETH Zürich
- Worked as a student assistant teaching calculus.
- Received a scholarship for a selective exchange program to the University of Pennsylvania.
- Completed degree with a GPA of 5.36 out of 6.
Other Contents
Some of my projects, talks, and writings.
