Andrea Favia

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Interested in Machine Learning to improve businesses and societies. Fascinated by the digital revolution, and always taking into account ethical and phisolophical concerns about distruptive technologies.

Data Scientist

  • Based in: Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭
  • Education: Master's @Aalto University 🇫🇮
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My background has been focusing initially on gaining all the soft skills and hard skills to adapt easily and work efficiently in different environments within companies. I enrolled in four different universities in four different countries around the world, worked with international teams and collaborate remotely to crack either technical or business challenges.
Currently working in a data-driven medical device company to improve their existing algorithm for sleep wake classification.


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Education

Double degree Master in Data Science

2019 - 2021

Aalto University, Finland 🇫🇮 & TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands 🇳🇱

Double Degree program with a minor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship coordinated by EIT Digital

Exchange program

2019

The University of Arkansas, USA 🇺🇸

I got accepted to the SEC exchange program from Politecnico di Torino and I had the chance to study 6 months in an American institution. Involved from the first day in teams to work out projects in Computer Networks, Operating Systems, and Signal Processing

Bachelor in Computer Engineering

2016 - 2019

Politecnico di Torino, Italy 🇮🇹

Acquired strong mathematical and engineering concepts during my bachelor's degree. Beside Computer Science knowledge, I acquired basics in signals & processing, automatic systems, and electronics.

Professional Experience

Data Scientist

2021

Sleepiz AG, Zurich

  • Thesis and Internship in healthcare startup that aims to revolutionize home monitoring for patients with sleep disorders
  • Research about possible approaches and implementation of Deep learning models with Tensorflow 2+ and multi-GPUs platform
  • Data-centric AI and MLops tools, such as DVC, Optuna, and MLflow

Computer Vision researcher & developer

2020

Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute, The Netherlands

  • Collaborated with HW team to build an autonomous robot that can detect and fetch fruits from trees
  • Researched & developed Deep Learning models in Python on custom datasets.
  • Set up Robot Operating System (ROS) on TurtleBot.

AI For Health Project Coordinator

2019 - 2020

FruitPunch.AI , The Netherlands

  • Contributed to initial planning of AI for healthcare projects
  • Spotted AI oppurtunities with Dutch Hospital and Pharmaceutical companies
  • Partecipated in Covid-19 challenge to better understand the health crisis

Numerical Methods Assistant

2019

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

  • Tutored students using Matlab & understanding the basics of Linear Algebra and Geometry.
  • Helped professos with assignments and grading

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