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Vienna, Austria

Vienna, Austria

Development of Natural Language Processing pipelines for chatbotsDevelopment of Machine Learning pipelines for Classification and image procesingResearch in dialogue management systems

Cern, Geneva, Switzerland

Research Scientist at the University of Maryland (2013-2018), based at CERN on the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment(CMS) at the Large Hadron Collider(LHC), working on multiple aspects of this large and complex experiment, including:- Data analysis, involving processing of large datasets and development of data quality criteria- Development of data analysis frameworks- Development of machine learning methods (Neural networks, boosted decision trees)- Publication of results and methods- Presentation of results in international conferences- Software development in c++ and python, integration with common software framework- Determining and assessing detector performance criteria- Characterizing radiation damage of plastic scintillators- Use of radioactive sources- Team leadership experience, and- Project Management Ph.D. Research at the University of Pennsylvania, stationed at CERN (2010-2013), working on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. My activities included:- Commissioning the readout electronics for a detector- Development of monitoring software- Data analysis, including processing large datasets, development of data quality criteria- Development of new and novel data analysis methods- Testing and evaluation of the performance of different machine learning methods, and- Publication of research as a Ph.D. thesis

Ph.D., Physics

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Physics