Leonora Vesterbacka
Founding Data Scientist
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonora Vesterbacka is a Founding Data Scientist with a PhD in particle physics from ETH Zürich and a decade of experience bridging high-energy research and applied machine learning. After six years at CERN and a postdoc at NYU building scalable C++/Python frameworks and PyTorch tools for large-scale simulation reweighting, she transitioned to industry roles where she fine-tuned Sweden’s leading speech-to-text model and led AI R&D at the National Library. At Redpine she now develops influence estimation and data valuation techniques to unlock proprietary datasets for validated AI licensing. Comfortable shipping production-ready models and tooling, she combines deep statistical rigor with practical engineering—an unusual mix honed by training models on supercomputers and deploying GPU-accelerated toolchains. Based in Stockholm, she’s recognized across academia and industry for turning complex data assets into measurable, monetizable intelligence.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science, High School, Science at Södra Latins GymnasiumMaster's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at Lund UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Particle Physics at ETH ZürichExchange Year, Physics, Exchange Year, Physics at UC Santa Barbara
English, Swedish, French
Github Skills (14)
pattern-recognition10
classifier10
pytorch9
datasets9
toolbox9
monte-carlo9
neural-network7
backbonejs7
subsystem7
overlay7
foundation6
cms5
cockpit4
edtech3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
leonoravesterbacka/cmg-cmssw
Jul 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years
cerninstructionsinstallationcmgrepository-tools
leonoravesterbacka/cmgtools-lite
Feb 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
subsystemcmsswoverlay
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