André Bittar
Senior Data Scientist
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolAndré Bittar is a Senior Data Scientist with over 15 years of specialised experience in natural language processing across academia, industry and the public sector in Europe and New Zealand. He has led applied NLP projects from research prototypes to production, delivering solutions for mental health risk assessment, tenant insights, information extraction and national COVID-19 reporting. At Kāinga Ora he turns large volumes of unstructured text into operational evidence for social housing services, combining topic modelling, sentiment analysis and entity extraction to inform policy and service improvements. His background includes published research and project leadership at King's College London and major NLP labs, plus hands-on work building linguistic resources, grammars and deep semantic pipelines in multilingual settings. Comfortable mentoring students and junior engineers, he blends rigorous academic methods with pragmatic, impact-driven deployment of language technologies.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computational Linguistics, PhD, Computational Linguistics at Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII)Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington
English, French, Spanish, te reo māori
Stackoverflow
920reputation
64kreached
20answers
10questions
nlp
top-5%
Github Skills (35)
sentence-embeddings9
topic-models9
tf-idf9
topic-modeling9
nlp9
transformers7
machine-learning7
bert7
spacy6
natural-language-processing6
nltk6
python6
tokenize6
stanford-nlp6
linguistics6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
KCL-Health-NLP/self_harm_annotator
Sep 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 122 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 11 months
KCL-Health-NLP/suicide-risk-sentiment
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 1 year
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