Summary
Dage Särg is a senior NLP and data mining specialist with 13 years of experience applying machine learning to clinical text and production ML projects. Currently Chief Specialist of NLP and Data Mining at the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, he focuses on information and relation extraction from free-text clinical notes and has built end-to-end NLP pipelines since 2016. His background spans academia and industry—PhD-level training in computational linguistics combined with data science roles at STACC and Eurora—bringing both research rigor and production mindset. He has hands-on experience with transformers, deep learning, LLMs and practical ML lifecycle practices, and holds multiple Coursera certifications on production ML pipelines. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex linguistic research into robust, deployable systems that improve real-world clinical data insights.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computational Linguistics, Master's degree, Computational Linguistics at University of Tartu