Julia Watzek
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Humana
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulia Watzek is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience translating cognitive science into production-ready ML systems that drive personalization and search. She combines a PhD in Psychology/Cognitive Sciences with hands-on engineering—having built low-latency recommender APIs and platform tooling to help scientists move models to production. At Audible she led work on personalization and wayfinding to surface content users love, and she now applies that product-focused ML leadership at Humana. Known for bridging rigorous experimental design with pragmatic deployment, she brings uncommon expertise in human decision-making to model interpretability and user-centric metrics. Outside engineering, she has a strong track record in teaching and science communication, having mentored students and published widely.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Psychology • Cognitive Sciences, PhD Psychology • Cognitive Sciences at Georgia State UniversityBS Psychology, BS Psychology at The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
English, German
Github Skills (5)
tidyverse9
dplyr9
tsne9
lrc1
collaboration1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jwatzek/cv
Sep 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:202 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
ManyPrimates/mp_pilot
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
ManyPrimates pilot study
Contributions:60 commits, 13 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 6 months
pilot
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