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Urszula Czerwinska

NLP engineer, Data Scientist, PhD

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Born in Poland, I have pursued my education in France and Singapore. Currently, based in Paris where I graduated from a Ph. D. and I carried out many other projects. I have always been fascinated by complex systems.

Through my undergraduate studies I have discovered statistics and programming. Introduced since the beginning to Python and R.

Experience of living in Singapore taught me how to combine hard work, traveling and networking. It stimulated my will to work in an interdisciplinary environment which I found in Paris.

Through versatile projects I got immersed with product & graphical design, business ideas and microbiology. Since then I co-funded a start-up that got transformed into non-profit exploratory project.

I have also followed my passion for data and statistical modeling that led me to my Ph. D. Meanwhile, I have discovered the whole new universe of Data Science where my skills can serve to solve problems in business, finance, marketing and many others. I became an ambassador of Pivigo Data Science hub to spread ideas of Data Science and help other STEM students to transfer into industry. During my Ph. D. I was running Data Science Club at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research (CRI). Our main activity was organizing seminars "From Science to Data Science" where Data Science professionals holding PhD degree were invited to tell the story of their transition from academia to private sector. At the end of my Ph. D. I got engaged in Women in Healthcare Analytics and Data Science Meetup in order to bridge the gap between the two worlds. After my Ph.D. I had a short adventure in a startup as a Data Science Lead where I learned which kind of Data Science I really want to practice.

Since June 2019 I am a happy Data Science Consultant at Saegus consultech firm aiming to change digital usage.

While working as a Saegus consultant for a French pharmaceutical company, I realized a project based on natural language processing technology (NLP) and Deep Learning (DL). We used one of the technological bricks of that project to create a demo key extraction, graphical summary and a content-based recommendation system of blog articles at EGG PARIS 2019. You can access the blog post explaining the key elements of that system at DATA by Saegus Medium. It gave a new direction for my career. I decided to specialize further in NLP domain.

I am now a Data Scientist specialized in NLP working at French Supreme Court. The goal is to accelerate the Open Data strategy by automatization of anonymization of justice documents. Numerous collaborations with academia, public institutions and European Commissions are engaged which make this work really rich and fulfilling see here for more sdetails.

I am fascinated about NLP, Healthcare and production-level code projects with strong Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence component. Occasionally I am a speaker at tech conferences talking about my work or some of projects/technologies. Don't hesitate to contact me for a collaboration.

Don't miss the interview featured with Dean Pleban from DAGsHub.

You can read it here or watch on Youtube



I have also recently contributed to a book Applied Data Science in Tourism : Interdisciplinary Approaches, Methodologies, and Applications with a chapter about ML models interpretability.




Skills


  • NLP
  • Deep Learning
  • Machine learning
  • Statistics
  • R
  • Python
  • Data viz
  • Biology & Healthcare related expertise
  • Graphical design
  • Communication



Awards


2016 1st in France & Europe, 8th/208 in the global classification team competition in Business Simulations: Capsim Challenge Fall 2016
2016 2nd jury award and audience award professional pitch competition by ABG
2016 Poster prize ISMB conference, Orlando USA
2014 Gold medal, best projet in New Application track, Art & Design award iGEM competiton 2014

Professional experience



I have been developing diverse projects in NLP, Data Science, bioinformatics, biology and others. Have a look at my Works.



Education


2015-2018 Institut Curie Ph.D. in Computational Biology

Courses & certificates

2020 CS224n: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning Stanford online course, completed as autodidact, not certifying
2017 Data Science Summer School Ecole Polytechnique: Deep Learning, Graphical Models, Optimisation
2017 BIG DIVE 5-week intense big data & data visualization hands-on course, final project for International Finance Corporation
2017 Python hacking week HackInScience
2017 Build and manage your professional network Sorbonne Paris Cité
2017 Distruptive technologies and public policy SciencesPo certified course, final grade: 17.5/20
2016 CBA : certificate of Business and Administration Sorbonne Paris Cité & Adoc Management
2016 Analytics Edge EdX honor code
2016 Data Science Essentials by Microsoft EdX certified honor code
2016 Machine Learning Stanford University online course
2015 Marketing and Business Strategies Smart Albinos online course
2015 Elevator pitch Speak the speech consulting

Languages



  • English
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Russian
  • Polish


Academic

For publications see my orcid profile, for posters, science awards and talks please see my academic CV.


Intrests


  • Travels
  • Foreign languages
  • Leadership
  • Fintech
  • Innovation
  • Graphical design