Experience

  1. Artificial Intelligence Researcher

    60 Decibels
    • Development of conversational AI agents to conduct phone interviews for market research, social impact measurement, and enumerator training
    • LLM fine-tuning, training, and benchmarking for underrepresented languages, including Swahili and Latin American languages
    • Implementing automatic generation of visualizations and infographics using LLMs for client data.
  2. Student Researcher

    Meta Inc. (formerly Facebook)
    • CTIS Survey Invitation Experiment: Researched the impact of survey invitations on response metrics and sample composition by testing different worded survey invitations for improved data collection
    • Investigated the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health by analysing the largest remote global health survey to date (CTIS) and modelling the risk of individuals reporting mental health problems
  3. Working Student Data Science

    MTU Aero Engines
    • Established Data Warehouse Infrastructure and reliable ETL processes by developing an (internal) Python library pypeline and an (internal) R Package datapipelineR to increase maintainability, robustness and monitoring of big data pipelines for all databases

Education

  1. PhD Population Health

    University of Oxford
    Examining the co-distribution of malaria and schistosomiasis in rural Uganda. Supervised by Dr Goylette Chami, Schistotrack Group
  2. MSc Statistical Science

    University of Oxford

    Courses included:

    • Statistical Machine Learning and Computational Statistics
    • Bayesian Statistics and Advanced Simulation Methods
    • Graphical Models and Mathematical Genetics
  3. BSc Statistics

    Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

    Courses included:

    • Minor: Computer Science
    • Probability theory & Linear Algebra
    • Regression analysis, hypothesis testing, and experimental design
Languages
English (fluent), Chinese (conversational), German (native)