About

Current Work

I am currently working in the automotive industry as a data scientist/engineer with Pierer Innovation in Austria. As part of the Data Science and Business Modeling team I carry out projects across most machine learning domains as well as data engineering and automation tasks.

Background

My educational background is Civil and Environmental Engineering. I did my bachelor’s at the University of Alberta, where I was lucky enough to be involved in some interesting research projects about oil sands tailings remediation. I enjoyed the research process, so I applied for Ph.D. programs across the U.S. and Canada. I was fortunate to be accepted to the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, where my supervisors were Heidi Sosik, Rob Olson, and Roman Stocker. In the Joint Program I worked on developing microfluidic devices to study bacteria and phytoplankton directly in the ocean. About 3 years in, Roman’s lab relocated to ETH Zurich and I moved to Switzerland to continue my studies. After a long 6 years, I finished my Ph.D. and was awarded a Simon’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Marine Microbial Ecology to continue research at the University of Washington with Ginger Armbrust. It was there that my journey with machine learning started.

Fun Stuff

What do I do when I’m not working? I play hockey whenever possible and also enjoy backcountry skiing and mountain biking.