David Zollikofer
Associated PhD Student
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Zollikofer is a researcher and engineer bridging theoretical computer science, machine learning, and microeconomics with nine years of hands-on experience. Currently an associated PhD student at ETH Zurich and the ETH AI Center, he focuses on interpretable AI and econometric methods under Prof. Elliott Ash, while co-founding and leading AI research at DDMind. His background spans applied data-science projects—from LC-MS wine authentication and drift-correction algorithms to building corporate IT tooling—reflecting fluency across experiment design, infrastructure, and algorithm development. He has taught algorithms at ETH, completed advanced fellowships at Harvard and Y Combinator’s AI Startup School, and pursues work that tightly couples economic theory with ML practice. Colleagues value his ability to translate abstract theoretical tools into practical, auditable solutions for interdisciplinary problems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
AI Startup School, AI Startup School at Y CombinatorFellow in Computer Science, Fellow in Computer Science at Harvard UniversityMaster of Science ETH Computer Science, Master of Science ETH Computer Science at ETH Zürich
German, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (61)
python10
gpu10
numpy9
machine-learning9
segmentation9
neural-network9
latex9
deep-learning9
structured-data9
contrastive-learning8
gpu-acceleration8
image-segmentation8
parsing8
tensorflow8
acceleration8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
davidrzs/FlashDash
Jul 2018 - Feb 2021
A personal dashboard.
Contributions:1 release, 13 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 7 months
javascriptpersonal-dashboarddashboard
davidrzs/Academic-Latex-Templates
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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