Vahan Nanumyan
Senior Principal Scientist at Zalando
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolVahan Nanumyan is a Senior Principal Scientist and leader in experimentation and causal inference, currently shaping Zalando’s evidence-driven product strategy with a remit akin to Chief AI & Science Officer. With an 11-year career spanning Google Search Ads Quality, consulting for enterprise compliance, and academic research at ETH Zürich, he combines rigorous applied statistics and machine learning with hands-on metric and KPI design for controlled online experiments. His PhD on collaborative knowledge networks and work on random graph models and anomaly detection reflect deep expertise in complex systems rarely found in product-focused data science roles. Vahan is known for translating long-term, system-level effects into actionable product insights and building horizontal causal inference tools used to inform decision-making at scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Theoretical Physics, Bachelor's degree Theoretical Physics at Yerevan State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Complex Systems; Data-driven modelling of socio-technical systems, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Complex Systems; Data-driven modelling of socio-technical systems at ETH Zürich
English, Armenian, Russian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
graph-tool6
frequency6
csv6
python6
r6
combine4
latex3
beamer3
graphical-models3
distributions3
network-analysis2
powerpoint2
pdf2
time-series1
ensembles1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nanumyan/pdf2pptx
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
A small script to convert PDF presentations to PPTX format. Allows to combine the power of LaTeX beamer presentations and the convenience of presenting in PowerPoint
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
pdfconvert-pdfpowerpointcombineconvenience
nanumyan/py-biasedurn
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Non-central Hypergeometric distributions in Python ported from R BiasedUrn
Contributions:20 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 3 days
distributionspython
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