WHO WE ARE
ALUMNI
Amalia Spataru, Sr. Data Scientist
After obtaining a joint MSc in Micro and Nanotechnologies from EPFL, Grenoble INP and PoliTo, Amalia worked for several years in the microelectronics industry, combining data science and domain expertise. Read More
Anastasia Pentina, Sr. Data Scientist
Anastasia got her PhD in Machine Learning from IST Austria and Master’s degree in Mathematics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Prior to joining SDSC, she worked at IST Austria Read More
Andreas Bleuler, Sr. Computer Scientist
Andreas received his PhD in Computational Astrophysics from University of Zurich in 2014. His PhD research was focused on studying the star formation process in the milky way through large-scale Read More
Anna Susmelj (Klimovskaia), Sr. Data Scientist
Anna joined the SDSC as a Senior Data Scientist in 2020. She is a statistician by training with a Master’s degree with Honors in Mathematical Statistics from Lomonosov Moscow State Read More
Cédric Silvestri, Graphic Design Trainee
In 2017, Cédric joined a school called CPNV (Professional Center of Northern Vaud). He spent a year at the SDSC as a graphic design intern and has now returned to Read More
Chenhao Cui, Data Scientist
Chenhao received his PhD in Statistical Science from University College London, his MSc in Optical Science from Imperial College London and his BEng in Optics from Fudan University (Shanghai, China). Read More
David Kunzmann, Software Developer
David joined the SDSC in June 2020 to work with the Knowledge Graph team. He has exeperience in building full-stack web applications and loves using functional programming to do so. Read More
Dorina Thanou, Sr. Data Scientist
Dorina is a Senior Data Scientist at the Swiss Data Science Centre since December 2016. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS4) of Read More
Emma Jablonski, Data Science Engineer
Emma graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA, with a BA in physics and computer science in 2013. Most recently since then, she has built systems to facilitate computational Read More
Eniko Székely, Sr. Data Scientist
Eniko joined SDSC as a senior data scientist in September 2017. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, working on machine Read More
Floriane Jacquemet, Head of Communication
Floriane is a Lausanne University graduate. Given her venerable age, digitalization was not a buzz word when she was a student, and she therefore completed a Certificate in Digital Strategy Read More
Gabrielle Gantos, Data Scientist
Gabrielle received her MSc in The Foundations of Data Science from Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, and a BA in Economics from Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA. She previously worked Read More
Gavin Lee, Data Science Engineer
Gavin joined the SDSC in Zurich as a Data Science Engineer in 2020. He holds an MSc in Computational Science and Engineering from EPFL, where he completed his Master’s thesis Read More
Izabela Moise, Sr. Data Scientist
Izabela holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Rennes 1, France and the National French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automatics (INRIA), France. Before joining Read More
Jinny Chien, Privacy & Security Expert
Jinny received her MSc in Computer Science from NCCU Taiwan. She joined SDSC as a Computer Scientist. Before joining SDSC, Jinny worked as a software engineer at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) Read More
Jiří Kunčar, Sr. Computer Scientist
Jiří is a Sr Software Engineer with a master degree in Computer Science from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, and a M.Sc. degree in Software Engineering from Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden. Read More
Johann Thiebaut, Sr. Computer Scientist
Johann holds a Master’s Degree from École Polytechnique, Saclay and joined the Swiss Data Science Center in early 2017. Before joining the team Johann-Michael has worked at IBM Research in Read More
Julien Eberle, Sr. Computer Scientist
Julien joined the Swiss Data Science Center in January 2017, after he got his PhD degree, as well as his Master degree with an Excellence Fellowship, from EPFL’s school of Read More
Manuel Knott, PhD Student
Manuel Knott has joined the scientific team of SDSC in September 2021. Manuel received a BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and another MSc Read More
Marcel Blattner, Principal Data Scientist
Marcel Blattner joined the industry cell in 2020 as a Principal Data scientist at the Zürich office. After his Ph. D. in physics and a research stay at the Brookhaven Read More
Mathias Humbert, Sr. Data Scientist
Mathias received his Ph.D. in computer and communication sciences from EPFL in 2015. He then spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher in the Center for IT-Security, Privacy, and Accountability Read More
Maysam Haghdan, PhD Student
Sadly, Maysam has left us. We have shared the daily work with you, in the last months we have always been with you in our thoughts. We are grateful that Read More
Natalie Barcicki, Data Scientist
Natalie joined the SDSC in April 2019 as a data scientist in the industry cell. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research at Princeton University with a focus on Read More
Natasa Tagasovska, Sr. Data Scientist
Natasa is a computer scientist by training, with a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Engineering and Master degree in Embedded Systems from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia. Read More
Nicole Andriaharifara, Graphic Design Trainee
In 2015, Nicole joined a school called CPNV (Professional Center of Northern Vaud). She spent a year at the SDSC as a graphic design intern and has now returned to Read More
Nina Pupikofer, Administrative Organizer
Nina has joined the SDSC in 2019 as administrative organizer. Her strengths lie clearly in communicating, structuring and organising. With more than 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and project Read More
Quentin Bouvet, Data Scientist
Quentin joined SDSC in 2021 as a data scientist in the industry team. His expertise lie at the intersection of big data, software engineering and machine learning, with a strong Read More
Radhakrishna Achanta, Principal Data Scientist
Radhakrishna has a PhD in Computer Science from EPFL Switzerland, an MSc in Computer Science from NUS Singapore, and a BEng degree in Electrical Engineering from JEC India. During his Read More
Raphaël de Fondeville, Sr. Data Scientist
Raphaël graduated in 2014 with an engineering degree from l’Ecole des Mines de Paris and holds since 2018 a Ph.D. in Statistics from l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Before joining Read More
Samuel Picek, Sr. Computer Scientist
Sam received his MSc degree in computer science from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He previously worked for over half a decade on solving problems in distributed computing and data Read More
Sandra Savchenko-de Jong, Sr. Computer Scientist
Sandra has studied astrophysics at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (the Netherlands) and obtained her PhD from the Observatoire de Paris (France). Afterwards she worked as a Scala developer at one of Read More
Sandro Saitta, Chief Industry Advisor
Sandro is a Data Science passionate with many years of experience applying Data Science in industries such as Finance, Telco, Chemicals, Online Travel and Retail. He was Chief Industry Advisor Read More
Tao Sun, Computer Scientist
Tao Sun joined SDSC as a Computer Scientist in March 2020. Tao holds a MSc in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from EPFL, where he specialized in data analytics and developed Read More
Tanja Käser, Sr Data Scientist
Tanja joined the SDSC as a senior data scientist in June 2019. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University working on educational data sciences. Before that, she worked Read More
Travis Lee, Software Engineer
Travis started out in test automation at a search engine company called Splunk. He then worked on consumer cloud storage products at Amazon and Microsoft. His interest in the Scala Read More
Viktor Gal, Sr. Software Engineer
Viktor Gal joined the RENKU team as a senior software engineer in 2021. He finished his post-graduate studies at the University of Ghent (Belgium) as a Marie-Curie fellow, where his Read More
Virginia Friedrich, Computer Scientist
Virginia Friedrich received her Computer Systems Engineering degree from the Universidad Nacional del Sur in Argentina. She took her first steps as a Software Developer in Hexacta, one of the Read More