Wiebke Hutiri
Senior Research Scientist at Lelapa AI
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolWiebke Hutiri is a Senior Research Scientist at Sony AI with 11 years of experience bridging trustworthy, data-centric ML and real-world deployment, particularly in voice and edge AI. She holds a PhD from TU Delft on detecting and mitigating bias in edge AI and led the open-source FairEVA project, funded by Mozilla, to audit bias in voice technologies. Wiebke combines hands-on technical leadership—running globally distributed teams and contributing to MLCommons benchmarking—with deep practical experience in data governance, on-device ML, and ethical evaluation frameworks. Her background includes founding Engineers Without Borders South Africa and delivering national-scale open energy datasets, reflecting a rare blend of applied social impact and rigorous research. She advises an African AI language startup and has co-led grading workstreams for influential benchmarks, demonstrating impact across industry, standards bodies, and civil society.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Masters Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at University of Cape TownDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
English, German, Afrikaans, French, Dutch
Github Skills (35)
measurements10
del10
axis10
normal10
classify9
classification9
segmentation9
science8
speaker8
data-science8
electricity8
power-systems7
verification7
machine-learning7
open-data7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wiebket/wiebket.github.io
Oct 2019 - Oct 2023
A beautiful Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:225 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
academicsbeautiful-jekylljekylljekyll-themebeautiful-jekyll-theme
wiebket/delarchetypes
Dec 2018 - Aug 2021
A pipeline to construct residential electricity consumer archetypes from the South African Domestic Electrical Load (DEL) database.
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 9 months
archetypespipelineafricansouthelectrical
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