Severin Elvatun
Senior Data Scientist
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolSeverin Elvatun is a Senior Data Scientist with 9 years of experience building applied ML and AI solutions across healthcare and industry, currently driving data initiatives at Capgemini from Oslo. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Oslo and blends rigorous research (predictive modelling, online learning, time-to-event analysis) with pragmatic ML engineering and Python development. Severin has led projects at the Ambr Institute and the Cancer Registry of Norway focused on personalized medicine, federated learning and synthetic data to enable secure, privacy-preserving access to clinical data. He is comfortable moving models into production, having worked on recommender systems, computer vision, and backend development for ML services. Known for pairing product-minded project management with hands-on coding, he also brings lab and process-optimization experience from early roles in biomedical and environmental settings. An unconventional strength is his background spanning chemical engineering, teaching, and frontline research, which helps him translate complex domain problems into deployable AI solutions.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of OsloBachelor of Engineering - BE, Chemical and Biotechnology Engineering, A, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Chemical and Biotechnology Engineering, A at Oslo and Akershus University CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, A, Master of Science - MS, Data Science, A at NMBU - Norwegian University of Life Sciences
English
Github Skills (25)
quantitative10
medical10
feature-extraction9
python9
scikit9
machine-learning9
scikit-learn9
generative-model8
medical-imaging8
discourse8
3d-images8
extraction8
data-science8
synthetic-data7
synthetic7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gsel9/federated-fpm
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
gsel9/lmc
Jan 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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