Ilkka Sipilä
Data Scientist
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIlkka Sipilä is a Data Scientist and PhD researcher based in London with nine years of experience applying machine learning to palaeoenvironmental archaeology and public-sector problems. His research focuses on accelerating manual identification and classification workflows through transfer learning, saliency mapping, and convolutional neural networks, bridging deep technical methods with rich domain knowledge of past human behaviour. At Lewisham Council he applies data science in a pragmatic, impact-driven context, translating academic advances into operational solutions. Ilkka’s strength is his generalist, interdisciplinary approach—combining social science insight with technical fluency—which helps uncover human biases and contextualize model outputs. He is also an effective communicator and educator, skilled at making complex concepts accessible to non-technical stakeholders. This blend of domain expertise, applied ML, and public-sector experience positions him to deliver machine learning solutions that are both scientifically rigorous and socially informed.
9 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Leiden UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science (BSc) at Bournemouth UniversityUniversity College London
English, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, French
Github Skills (59)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
binder9
sequential8
google-scholar8
hyperparameters8
pytorch8
optuna8
optimization7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ISipi/captioncapture
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Download PDFs from Google Scholar, find images and their captions in the PDF
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 months
pdfgoogle-scholarpdfscaptionsscholar
ISipi/PhD
Nov 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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