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Cluj-Napoca, Cj, Ro

New York City Metropolitan Area

A third of all trucks on the road have no cargo. Leaf's mission is to reduce this to 0 by becoming the air traffic control of trucks - using ML to find stable patterns in a massive logistics network.

Founder of an education consultancy centered around our main product: a book I authored that introduces accounting professionals (i.e., Excel users) to Python’s data science tools. I started this project with a close friend after I helped him figure out Python's data tools and we both realized that Python is an excellent fit for handling data in accounting. In addition to the book, we offer courses, workshops, and consulting to accounting teams worldwide. Visit www.pythonforaccounting.com for more details or click the link below to read the first chapter of "Python for Accounting".

Freelance Data and NLP consultant working with:• IBM 2021 - 2022: developed ranking functions for professional résumés (Elasticsearch) incorporating the existing NLU stack (Watson NLP, spacy). Built the evaluation dataset and introduced the team to ranking evaluation methodologies. • Matterlab.com 2019 - 2020: automated text-analysis for Q&A forum conversations related to DynamoBIM - an open source graphical programming tool for architects and designers (with Python, pandas, spaCy, Elasticsearch). Helped the team achieve their goal of automatically determining common causes of user errors in DynamoBIM, as well as finding error message improvements using text data available on public Q&A forums.• Prodsight.ai 2018 - 2019: defined and implemented the NLP strategy at an early-stage start-up (team of 4) focused on extracting insights from customer service chat data. I was an integral part of the entire development process, from NLP pipeline design and data management (with Python, pandas, spaCy, ELK stack, AWS EC2, RDS, Sagemaker) to frontend integration.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Postgraduate teaching assistant for undergraduate courses (Introduction to Programming, Algorithms and Data Structures, Object Oriented Software Engineering) and graduate courses (Information Retrieval). One of five teaching assistants across all undergraduate disciplines (out of more than 600 candidates) to be nominated by their students for Best Postgraduate Tutor at the University of Glasgow in the 2014 – 2015 academic year.

Redmond, Wa, Usa

Research intern in the Information and Data Sciences (IDEAS) group working on command and control search. Our ACM CHIIR paper titled "Characterizing Search Behavior in Productivity Software" is available at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3176349.3176395.

Redmond, Wa, Usa

Research intern in the Context, Learning and User Experience for Search (CLUES) group working on self-addressed information behaviours. Our ACM CHIIR paper title "Self-Es: The Role of Emails-to-Self in Personal Information Management" is available at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3020165.3020189.

Berlin Area, Germany

Part of the Analytics team, working primarily on analysing user behaviour. My work spanned several projects, from assessing the impact of TV advertising on website visits, to the development of language learning metrics.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computing Science

My research is at the boundary between human-computer interaction, information retrieval, and machine learning. In my thesis I studied how.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Mobile Software Engineering, First Class (Hons)