Summary
Krist Papadopoulos is a Data Science Manager with nine years of machine learning and NLP experience, currently leading data scientists and analysts at Wattpad to improve content discovery, trust & safety, and user engagement. He has a strong track record shipping production NLP systems—genre classifiers, explicit-content detectors, and moderation pipelines—that measurably increased engagement and reduced toxic content. His background spans applied ML roles in finance and insurance as well as early-career risk and reliability engineering in the nuclear sector, giving him a rare blend of product-focused ML expertise and rigorous, safety-oriented statistical thinking. Educated with an MASc in machine learning from the University of Toronto and a Big Data certificate from MIT, he combines research-grade techniques with practical labeling and deployment experience. Notably, he has led end-to-end labeling efforts and cross-functional collaborations that turned complex content problems into reliable, product-ready models.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Big Data and Social Analytics, Certificate Big Data and Social Analytics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Masters of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering Machine Learning, Masters of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering Machine Learning at University of Toronto
Engineering Physics, Engineering Physics at Queen's University