Florian Wilhelm
Head Of Data Science & Mathematical Modelling
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolFlorian Wilhelm is a data science and AI leader with 12 years of experience who currently heads Data Science & Mathematical Modelling at inovex, leading cross-functional teams and driving strategic growth and presales for enterprise data products. He combines deep mathematical training (Dr. rer. nat., magna cum laude) with hands-on delivery of recommendation engines, fraud detection, uplift modeling, OCR and uncertainty quantification work across large e‑commerce and CPG clients. Florian has a track record of turning research into production: previously leading predictive analytics projects at Blue Yonder and contributing robust methods to open-source libraries like scikit-learn (notably a parallelized Theil–Sen estimator with spatial median support). He is fluent in bridging academia and industry, supervising students and scaling reusable Python tooling to accelerate multiple data teams. Known for pragmatic mathematical rigor, he excels at making complex models operational and commercially impactful.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Mathematik, 1,3, Diplom, Mathematik, 1,3 at Universität Karlsruhe (TH)Abitur, 1,8, Abitur, 1,8 at Leibniz Gymnasium (Neustadt a.d.W.)Dr. rer. nat., Mathematik, 1,0 magna cum laude, Dr. rer. nat., Mathematik, 1,0 magna cum laude at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
German, English, French, Swedish
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Github Skills (20)
algorithm10
algorithms10
python10
scikit10
statistics10
machine-learning10
data-structure10
regression10
scikit-learn10
data-structures10
testing9
data-analysis9
documentation8
elasticsearch6
configparser6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
scikit-learn/scikit-learn
Jan 2014 - Mar 2016
scikit-learn: machine learning in Python
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:63 commits, 1 PR, 61 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Florian contributed to the implementation of the Theil-Sen estimator for a multiple linear regression model within the scikit-learn library. Their work involved adding and testing the functionality, including the spatial median calculations and the ability to handle outliers. They also added example code and documentation for the Theil-Sen estimator, comparing its performance with ordinary least squares and RANSAC. Finally, they included parallelization support to improve the estimator's performance.
data-analysispythonstatisticsdata-sciencelearn-machine-learning
pyscaffold/pyscaffoldext-markdown
Aug 2018 - Jul 2022
⬇️ PyScaffold extension which replaces reStructuredText by Markdown
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 50 commits in 3 years 11 months
pyscaffold-extensionpyscaffoldpythonrestructuredtextgitbook
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