Benedikt Herwerth
Lead CorSo AI Zurich at Swiss Re
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarBenedikt Herwerth is a data science and AI leader based in Zurich with a career spanning research and industry, currently leading CorSo AI at Swiss Re after progressing from Data Scientist to Senior Data Scientist within the same firm. He brings a strong scientific foundation from a PhD-era research background at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics into applied insurance analytics, having also worked at Allianz early in his career. Over roughly three years in industry data science roles at Swiss Re (and prior experience dating back to 2018), he focuses on translating complex models into production-ready solutions for risk and reinsurance contexts. Known for bridging rigorous research thinking with practical deployment, he combines domain expertise in insurance with hands-on leadership in shaping AI strategy and teams.
3 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (31)
data-analysis10
bayesian-statistics10
variational-inference10
probabilistic-programming10
python10
data-science10
data-manipulation10
dataframes10
pandas10
manipulation10
statistical-inference10
mcmc10
bayesian10
probabilistic-models10
probabilistic10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bherwerth/pymc
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Probabilistic Programming in Python: Bayesian Modeling and Probabilistic Machine Learning with Aesara
Contributions:15 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
pythonstatistical-inferencemachine-learningprobabilistic-programmingbayesian-statistics
bherwerth/pandas
Jul 2022 - May 2023
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
polarspythondatalabeled-datamanipulation
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