Yanick Schraner
Leiter KI at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolYanick Schraner is a Swiss data scientist and AI leader with a decade of experience, currently heading the AI unit at the Statistisches Amt des Kantons Basel-Stadt and teaching reinforcement learning at FHNW. He led development of what his team calls the world's best Swiss German ASR, pushing wav2vec 2.0-based models from 46.0 to 72.2 BLEU and building the largest Swiss German corpora (200h and 350h) to enable production transcription pipelines. His work spans the full ML lifecycle—from automated data crawling and alignment to model fine-tuning and deployment—and includes rigorous comparisons of unsupervised, self-supervised and supervised approaches for low-resource ASR. A two-time NeurIPS MineRL top-three finisher, he combines research-caliber results with practical automation that accelerated customs declaration and media transcription projects. Confident at translating client needs into project specs, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on engineering to move novel speech and RL models into impact.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Informatiker EFZ, Informatiker EFZ at Gewerblich Industrielle Berufsschule MuttenzMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, 5.2 of 6.0, Master of Science - MS, Data Science, 5.2 of 6.0 at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
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Github Skills (63)
pytorch9
amd9
llm9
inference9
llama9
keras9
openai9
gpt9
cuda9
transformer9
hyperparameter-tuning8
image-generation8
data-versioning8
multimodal8
textmate8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DCC-BS/rag-backend
Sep 2024 - Nov 2025
Contributions:10 PRs, 90 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 2 months
YanickSchraner/rl-on-trains-workshop
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 34 pushes in 8 months
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