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About me Summary

So you are a Data Scientist ...

Andrea Dal Pozzolo

July 31, 2015

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WHAT’S A DATA SCIENTIST?

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DATA SCIENTIST SKILLS

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DATA SCIENTIST DEMAND

Many people claim to be data scientists,how to detect the fakes?1

1http://www.quora.com/What-are-20-questions-to-detect-fake-data-scientists

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ABOUT ME

I I’m a PhD candidate at the Machine Learning Group(MLG) of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

I My research focuses on Machine Learning techniques forFraud Detection in electronic transaction.

I The PhD is a business driven research project done incollaboration with Worldline SA (Brussels, Belgium).

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MY BACKGROUND

I I have a Master and Bachelor degree in Statistics fromUniversity of Bologna (Italy).

I I completed my Master while working full-time for anonline stock exchange broker.

I Did a Master thesis on fraud in the insurance market.I More than 2 years of experience in customer support and

problem handling.I Since 2012, researcher at ULB.

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MY EXPERTISE

I Machine Learning, Data Mining and Statisitcs.I Knowledge extraction form data.I Fraud detection in credit card transactions.I Coaching (master students supervision).I Oral communication (presentations at international

conferences).

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MY SKILLS

I Problem formulation.I Data analysis.I Solution identification.I Rigorous performance assessment.I Programming (R, SAS, Python and other languages for

data analysis).I Results visualisation and presentation.

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WHY HIRING A PHD GUY?Because he/she is an expert of the field, but ..

ProsI PersistentI HardworkingI Highly motivatedI Independent & curiousI Problem solverI Not afraid of failure

ConsI StubbornI Too hardworkingI Easily boredI Do not follow all the rulesI Solution drivenI Learnt how to hide them

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WHY HIRING ME?

I Expert in Machine Learning and Statistics.I Business mindset.I Quick learner.I Hard-worker.I Self-supervision.I Independent worker.

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Web: www.ulb.ac.be/di/map/adalpozzEmail: [email protected]

Thank you for the attention

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