Summary
Erick Elejalde is a researcher and project manager with 12 years of experience applying machine learning, NLP, and network analysis to real-world problems across industry, health, media, and public policy. Holding a PhD in Computer Science, he bridges academic research and applied engineering to turn multimodal data integration and predictive models into scalable analytics pipelines. At L3S he leads EU H2020 projects, supervises graduate students, and teaches social computing, demonstrating strengths in stakeholder communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration. His background includes hands-on software development and project delivery for public health systems and startups, evidencing both product-minded execution and rigorous algorithmic foundations. Erick’s work uniquely combines social network modeling with data structures and algorithms for high-volume data processing, enabling actionable insights for nontechnical audiences. Based in the Greater Hamburg Area, he’s motivated by projects that fuse technical innovation with measurable social impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Internship, Computer Science, Internship, Computer Science at Brown University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Havana
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Universidad de Concepción
Internship, Data Science, Internship, Data Science at Università degli Studi di Torino
Internship, Data Science, Internship, Data Science at Leibniz Universität Hannover
Senior High School, Senior High School at Vocational Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences (IPVCE) V. I. Lenin
English, Spanish, German