Leandro von Werra

CTO

Bern, Berne, Switzerland14 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Head of Research at Hugging Face
  • Expert in Machine Learning and Data Science
  • Proven track record in anomaly detection and data quality
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and Machine Learning expert in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

ResearchMachine LearningData ScienceNatural Language ProcessingTeachingAnomaly DetectionData QualityResearch AssistanceOutreach ActivitiesOptics DevelopmentBusiness PlanningSoftware DevelopmentData AnalysisScientific InstrumentationObject Tracking

Other Skills

Regression ModelingStatistical AnalysisVorträgeDatenanalyseComputer-VisionPhysicsDeep LearningSentiment AnalysisQualitätskontrolle DatenStatistikClusteranalyseBildanalyseAlgorithmenKünstliche IntelligenzPyTorch

Experience

Hugging face

2 roles

Head of Research

Promoted

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos

ResearchMachine Learning

Machine Learning Engineer

Aug 2021Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Machine LearningData Science

Die mobiliar

Data Scientist (NLP)

May 2020Jul 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

Natural Language ProcessingData Science

Berner fachhochschule bfh

Lecturer

Feb 2019Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bern und Umgebung, Schweiz

  • • Prepare and deliver a recurrent 6-month course on Data Science and Visualisation. Topics covered include the PyData stack, random forests, clustering, naive Bayes, model performance metrics, and cross-validation.
Data ScienceTeaching

Spoud.io

Data Scientist

Jun 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bern und Umgebung, Schweiz

  • Increase application performance monitoring by designing and implementing an algorithm to detect anomalies in seasonal time series. Outperforms commercial anomaly detectors in performance and efficiency on public benchmarks.
  • Automate German customer feedback classification with respect to precision using language modelling (ULMFiT). The model uncovered a significant amount of mislabeled data entries.
  • Improve truck delay predictions over existing system baseline for a logistics department with regression modelling.
  • Automate data quality monitoring of data pipelines by implementing statistical tests in a production environment.
Data ScienceAnomaly Detection

Amanuensis gmbh

Project Assistant

Jan 2016Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bern und Umgebung, Schweiz

  • Assist in preparing research grant proposals including literature and patent searches.
  • Assist in outreach activities for research projects such as giving public lectures, building a VR application and coordinating educational cartoons.
Research AssistanceOutreach Activities

Ame gmbh

Co-Founder

Jan 2015Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bern und Umgebung, Schweiz

  • Develop optics for Terahertz radiation and a novel calibration target for microwave spectrometers.
  • Awarded 50k CHF in competitive, merit based research grant.
  • Awarded 9k CHF for producing the winning business plan in the BBCW competition against 30 teams.
Optics DevelopmentBusiness Planning

University of california, berkeley

Visiting Student

Jun 2014Sep 2014 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay und Umgebung

  • Build a tool for tracking objects and edges to measure object deformations in video feeds in Python with openCV.
  • Develop and implement a novel method to correlate density based clusters in point clouds.
Scientific InstrumentationData Analysis

Empa

2 roles

Co-Worker

Mar 2013Feb 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Thun

  • Build software for mass spectrometry data analysis, including k-means, PCA and data visualisations.
Software DevelopmentData Analysis

Intern

Oct 2010Feb 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos · Thun

  • • Work with various scientific instruments including, mass spectrometers, Raman spectrometers and plasma cleaners.
Object TrackingData Analysis

Education

ETH Zürich

Master of Science - MS — Physics

Jan 2016Jan 2018

ETH Zürich

Bachelor of Science - BS — Physics

Jan 2011Jan 2016

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