Talia Kimber
Data Scientist
Fribourg - Freiburg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTalia Kimber is a data scientist with eight years of experience applying machine learning to real-world problems across government, defense, and pharmaceutical research. She holds a PhD focused on machine learning for drug discovery and combines deep learning expertise (PyTorch, TensorFlow/Keras) with strong statistical and mathematical foundations. Talia has led R&D projects quantifying operational capabilities for the Swiss Armed Forces and is now shaping AI strategy and modernizing the legislative consultation process for the Canton of Fribourg. Her background in molecular ML and practical experience with data augmentation and heterogeneous data integration give her a rare ability to move models from research into decision-ready production. Colleagues describe her as a cross-disciplinary collaborator who pairs rigorous research with pragmatic software development to deliver measurable impact.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine learning for drug discovery., Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine learning for drug discovery. at Freie Universität BerlinMaster's degree, Statistics, Master's degree, Statistics at University of GenevaMathematics, Mathematics at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (59)
forge10
cheminformatics10
prediction10
data-augmentation10
modeling10
hugo-theme9
siggraph9
machine-learning9
conda9
deep-learning9
information-theory8
docx8
pdf8
hugo8
convert8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
volkamerlab/maxsmi
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
maxsmi: a guide to SMILES augmentation. Find the optimal SMILES augmentation for accurate molecular prediction.
Contributions:4 releases, 6 reviews, 620 commits in 2 years
cheminformaticspredictiondeep-learningsmilesmolecular
volkamerlab/DL_in_VS_review
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Deep learning in virtual screening, a review
Contributions:1 review, 59 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
pytorchscreeningdeep-learningreviewvirtual-screening
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.