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Welcome! My name is Yannik and I am a senior data scientist working on artificial intelligence

research at an R&D consulting company. Before that, I earned my doctorate in statistics from

UC Berkeley where I did research in theoretical machine learning. This is a place where I share

my thoughts on statistics, data science, and anything else that I fancy. Feel free to explore

and learn more about me and my work!

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SPECIALTIES

Econometrics Time Series Machine Learning

Deep Learning Cloud Computing

PAST RESEARCH PROJECTS

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Sample complexity guarantees in Elicitation of Bayesian priors Explainable AI for time series
optimal transportation

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Education Professional Experience

2013 2022

University of California, Berkeley PerformanceStar Santa Clara,

Berkeley, California, United States California
Ph.D. in Statistics 2013-2021 Software Engineer November 2022 – Present

Dissertation: An Assortment of Analyses for Optimal Core contributor to the XAI (explainable AI) project
T ransport Inspired by Domain Adaptation. that assists humans in understanding and
interpreting the decisions made by AI.
Proved two new sample complexity bounds on the
generalization errors of statistical methods using Built out regression library for XAI.
techniques from empirical process theory and
Also developed a method for estimating Shapley
proposed another type of distance measure called
values in time series data.
Sliced Multi-Marginal Wasserstein.
Pre.
2021

2022
2007
Quantfury LLC Chicago, Illinois
Harvard University Cambridge,
Machine Learning Researcher Jan 2022 – June 2022
Massachusetts, United States
Lead data engineering as well as modeling activities
A.B. cum laude with Honors in Mathematics 2007-
and effectively manage research program. Design
2011
survival analysis models and accurately assess key
Honors T hesis: Quantitative bounds for Markov chain factors for trades to support overall trading
convergence using logarithmic sobolev inequalities strategy. Develop ML modules, algorithms, and
2011 analytical solutions as per research problems.
Conceptualize required data pipelines in support of
Skills machine learning modules and deploy models in
production environment for large-scale apps.
Source, cleanse, and analyze large disparate data
sets and devise as well as maintain data science
R, Python, Spark, SQL, C/C++, Matlab, Scala
best practices across all departments. Collaborate
with cross-functional teams to build comprehensive
solutions.

Created survival analysis models to analyze driving

Other Specialties factors for trades closing ultimately as part of a
larger trading strategy.
2022
T ime series, survival analysis, regression modeling
2020

Walgreens Boots Alliance Chicago,

Illinois
Senior Algorithms and Engineering Scientist Sept
2020 – Dec 2021

Managed Big Data project by effectively

collaborating with RX analytics and “Return to Stock”
teams. Supported “Return to Stock” project by
developing full model pipelines for data
engineering/analytics in Azure Databricks. Built and
managed algorithms during product development
and support integration into applications.
Researched into potential improvements to further
optimize algorithm efficiency.

Created feature store that reduced time other data

scientists across the company spent on feature
engineering by 30 percent based on metrics.

Rewrote model pipelines in Pyspark to run on

distributed cloud clusters instead of on premises
and improved scalability for the Return to Stock
project so models could run on workloads ten times
larger. Recognized company-wide for work done.

Revamped hiring processes and built outreach

program with UC Berkeley to recruit under-
represented minorities in ST EM for careers at
Walgreens.
2021

2012

Epic Systems Madison, Wisconsin

Business Intelligence Developer July 2012 – Aug 2013

Designed business intelligence solutions as a part of

“Beacon Oncology Research and Development”
team.
2013

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diverse industries, I've successfully guided over sixty clients consulting services could be a perfect match for your
towards tangible improvement. My areas of expertise objectives.
encompass not only the core principles of statistics, but
also complex topics such as Markov processes. To
validate the quality of my services, references are gladly
provided upon request.

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