Nick Hoernle - Data Scientist

Nick Hoernle

Data Scientist

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Nick Hoernle is a Data Scientist based in Zurich with a decade of experience building scalable machine learning pipelines and solving large-scale prediction problems such as demand forecasting and price optimisation. With a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, his research background spans deep generative models, Bayesian/probabilistic graphical models, time series, and neuro-symbolic AI—skills he applies to causal analysis and experimentation in production settings at QuantCo. He has practical industry experience from internships and consulting engagements, including prototyping search and transcription tools at Microsoft, and a history of founding and leading education-focused ventures. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, he brings both rigorous statistical inference and hands-on pipeline implementation to real-world business problems. Outside work he’s an avid mountain athlete and water-sports enthusiast, a combination that reflects a taste for technical challenge and adventurous problem solving.

10 years of coding experience

5 years of employment as a software developer

Matric, Matric at St Johns College

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics and Computer Engineering at University of Cape Town

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at The University of Edinburgh

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Bayesian Inference, Bayesian Inference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Masters in Computational Science and Engineering, Masters in Computational Science and Engineering at Harvard University

Zulu

Github Skills (10)

loss10

python9

statistics9

machine-learning8

data-analysis8

data-science8

scikit7

wmi7

scikit-learn7

semantic6

Programming languages (2)

Jupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

NickHoernle/semantic_loss

Feb 2021 - May 2021

Repository for the semantic WMI loss

Contributions:466 commits, 8 PRs, 1254 pushes in 3 months

wmilosssemantic

NickHoernle/incentive_design

Dec 2018 - Jun 2020

researching the factors that motivate people to collaborate and produce specific outcomes

Contributions:81 commits, 2 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 6 months

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