Manage a team of skilled individuals to bring new innovative ideas to the beauty market

Universkin commercializes bespoke skincare products that can treat all type of skin dysfunctions. It works by mixing carefully selected active ingredients with a base serum. By mixing up to 6 ingredients per formula, we can create as many as 2 millions different combinations directly in the doctor's office. To help the doctors with the use of Universkin's product line, I develop smart algorithms that generate detailed diagnostics of the patient's skin and pre-select the best formula based on questionnaire analysis (knowledge based system) and image processing and classification (deep learning system).

As the head of R&D, I was in charge of the data science related activities of the company. One of the main project I worked on was the prediction of flight tickets over time for specific airline routes. To achieve this objective, I have implemented world-class, state-of-the-art machine learning methods that can deal with time-series data. I worked, on a daily basis, on Data Cleaning, Feature Engineering, and Machine Learning Algorithms (Gradient Boosting, Random Forest, and Neural Network/Deep Learning).

OhMyGeorge is a virtual trading game simulation that aims at making financial markets unintimidating and accessible. The startup introduced the first version of the game on January 2016. Analyzing the data from our beta testers, I provided early insights on trading behaviors and helped with the upcoming software developments.Platform: python programming language within jupyter notebook (pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn), tableau, rethinkDB (noSQL query)

Title: Automatic Parametric Digital Design of Custom-Fit Bicycle Helmets based on 3D Anthropometry and Novel Clustering Algorithm.Platform: Java JSE, SPSS, R, statistics, machine learning

As a research engineer, I was responsible for every design related project within the School of Engineering.

Kansei Engineering of Running Shoes for Mizuno Ltd. (Design Emotion).As a research assistant in the School of Engineering, I was in charge of the design of a new user-centered running shoe concept for Mizuno’s range of products.My core duties during this year of research involved to conduct two online surveys to establish appropriate user profiles and their associated traits, and quantifying the general requirements of running shoe users and their perception of how current brands and models of running shoes performed. Statistics using R and SPSS (ANOVA, Regression)