Markus Loecher
Professor at Berlin School of Economics and Law
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Loecher is a professor at the Berlin School of Economics and Law with 15 years of experience bridging academic research and applied data science in machine learning, econometrics, and explainable AI. His background spans physics and statistics (PhD in physics, Master's in statistics), and he has led teams and startups—from founding a statistical consultancy to serving as Lead Scientist at Sense Networks—building spatiotemporal models, anomaly detection, and scalable geostatistical solutions. Known for combining rigorous theoretical foundations (chaos and stochastic pattern formation) with pragmatic engineering, he applies dimensionality reduction and feature-attribution techniques to make complex models interpretable. Based in Berlin, he brings a rare mix of academic depth and industry impact, often translating advanced inference methods into tools for real-world decision making.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, physics, PhD, physics at Ohio UniversityMasters, statistics, Masters, statistics at Rutgers University
German
Stackoverflow
379reputation
23kreached
10answers
16questions
Github Skills (74)
python10
scikit10
statistics10
gradient-boosting10
shap10
data-science10
data-analysis10
shapley10
machine-learning10
scikit-learn10
sports-data9
deep-learning9
r-package9
data-storage8
mappings8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
markusloecher/DataScience2018
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:26 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
markusloecher/rgooglemaps
Mar 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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