Philipp Hunziker
Senior Data Scientist
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilipp Hunziker is a Senior Data Scientist based in Zurich with 11 years of experience spanning academia and industry, and 7+ years focused in data science and GenAI at Google. He has progressed from quantitative UX research and product-focused metrics for YouTube and Google Geo to leading GenAI initiatives, combining rigorous academic training (Dr. in Social Sciences from ETH Zürich) with product-facing experimentation. His background includes multiple postdoctoral roles at ETH, Harvard IQSS, and Northeastern, giving him deep expertise in experimental design, causal inference, and large-scale measurement. Known for bridging research and production, he translates complex statistical methods into actionable product metrics and models that scale. Colleagues value his ability to move seamlessly between academic rigor and pragmatic engineering, and his Zurich-based perspective brings strong European research-industry ties to global product teams.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Sciences, SOCIAL SCIENCES, Doctor of Sciences, SOCIAL SCIENCES at ETH Zürich
Github Skills (7)
clipper6
polyhedra5
geometric5
machine-learning4
r-package4
tensorflow3
spatial1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hunzikp/velox
Aug 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 128 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
hunzikp/spmle
Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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