Emmanuel Dufourq
Assistant Professor Of Data Science
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmmanuel Dufourq is an Assistant Professor of Data Science with a decade of experience bridging applied mathematics and machine learning to tackle real-world ecological and conservation problems. He has held research chairs and lecturing roles at AIMS and Stellenbosch University and now serves on the faculty at the University of Northern Iowa, bringing deep learning into wildlife monitoring through the ML for Ecology group he leads. His background spans academic research (PhD in Applied Mathematics) and industry consulting in credit risk and NLP, giving him a rare mix of theoretical rigor and production-focused ML practice. Notably, he has translated climate-change and ecology challenges into deployable ML solutions and taught core computer science courses from algorithms to AI, reflecting both breadth and hands-on mentorship.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Mathematics at University of Cape TownLe Bocage International School, MauritiusDeep Learning Nanodegree Foundation, Deep Learning Nanodegree Foundation at UdacityMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of KwaZulu-Natal
English, French
Github Skills (14)
audio-classification9
convolutional-neural-networks8
classifier8
science6
polars5
python5
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
singer4
dataframes4
data-analysis4
neural-network3
data-science3
deep-neural-networks3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
emmanueldufourq/GibbonClassifier
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
Hainan gibbon passive accoustic classifier.
Contributions:41 commits, 9 pushes in 4 months
audio-classificationclassifierdeep-learningpassivemachine-learning
emmanueldufourq/PAM_TransferLearning
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:29 commits in 1 day
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