Mark Rowan Email & Phone Number

Zurich, Switzerland

https://www.rowan-cognitive.com- Consulting and freelancing for AI product and strategy- Data science career coaching- Teaching and workshops in data science and machine learning

Zurich, Switzerland

Zurich, Switzerland

Zurich, Switzerland

– Led and mentored a small team with 2 junior data scientists in a full-stack, high-pressure customer-facing role.– Took product from concept to deployment in k8s in 3 months to process 15k mins/day of audio.– Created an ultra-fast, state-of-the-art speaker diarization solution, beating Google and other competitors.– Set up data management workflows, CI/CD.

Adliswil, Canton Of Zürich, Switzerland

– Deputy Chair of the Digital and Smart Analytics global Peer Review Board.– Leading team to design, develop and deploy an NLP product which learns to identify and annotate hidden cyber risk in contracts, at the core of the Swiss Re Cyber Accumulation Solution offered globally to clients.– Lead data scientist on an R&D project to extract data from.

Zurich, Switzerland

– Lead analyst on major customer-facing campaigns, including steering a nationwide home technician visit programme and influencing the Group CFO on pricing strategy using data analysis and regression models.– Developed from scratch and deployed an auto-ML framework for daily churn and sales prediction models.– Direct support to CFO and heads of Marketing.

Bern, Switzerland

– Mathematical modelling, analysis and visualisation of large data sets from neural network simulations.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

– "Excellence in Teaching" award for dedication to quality of work and teaching skills.– Taught specialist techniques in intelligent robotics, such as Bayesian state estimation under uncertainty– Designed Java software, teaching material, and exercises.– Delivered tutorial classes in Java and OOP including algorithms, data structures, and engineering.

Filton, Bristol, UK

– Co-inventor on a worldwide patent for a dynamic weapon allocation system for T45 destroyers.– Won Business Innovation Challenge leading my team to design new market opportunities for products.– Modelled social interaction networks for a pan-European anti-terrorism data mining consortium.– Completed projects in battlefield sensor data fusion and robots.

Ph.D., Computational Neuroscience

Activities and Societies: – University of Birmingham Excellence in Teaching award (2012). – Birmingham Postgraduate Conference oral.

Master Of Science (Msc), Natural Computation, Distinction

– Specialist study in intelligent data analysis and nature-inspired machine learning. – Created a data-driven model for predicting.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Artificial Intelligence And Computer Science, Hons (1St Class)

Activities and Societies: – SETNET Science and Engineering Ambassador teaching robotics in local schools (2006--2007). – University of.

Education record

– 'A' levels in Computing (A, with school award), Physics (A), Chemistry (B). – Ten GCSEs including triple science (5xA*, 4xA, 1xB).