Hjalmar Turesson
Program Director at Schulich School of Business - York University
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHjalmar Turesson is an AI and data science leader with 11 years of experience who bridges deep neuroscience research (PhD, Princeton) and applied AI education and consulting. As Program Director and award-winning Adjunct Professor at Schulich, he designed and scaled the Master of Management in AI, advised 100+ capstone projects across industries, and teaches practical NLP and ML. His background includes hands-on ML research—from graph neural nets for drug-target binding to blockchain-based renewable energy architectures and ML-secured permissionless blockchains—showing a knack for marrying novel research with product-focused solutions. He has co-founded and advised startups, led ML teams through an IPO, and built experimental neuroscience systems and CUDA-based models early in his career, a detail that highlights both his low-level engineering chops and translational impact.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Neuroscience, M.Sc. Neuroscience at University of TübingenHögastensskolanBachelor Biology Chemistry and Mathematics, Bachelor Biology Chemistry and Mathematics at Lund UniversityPh.D Neuroscience, Ph.D Neuroscience at Princeton University
English, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (43)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-science9
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
neural-network9
relation9
semantic-parsing7
ibm-watson7
nlp6
parsing6
question-answering6
deploying6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kalleknast/RNTN
Sep 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
kalleknast/video-tools
Jun 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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