Fort Lauderdale linkedin.com/in/lauragabrysiak/
R,Python,Git,Tableau,GoogleSuite
- Passionate about the design and implementation of algorithms to solve challenging problems that require building scalable predictive models.
- Keen interest in combining quantitative and qualitative research methods in order to extract end-user insights.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computational Linguistics and master’s degree in Information Systems with emphasis in Business Analytics and Text Mining.
Python, NLTK, R, sentiment, Shiny
- Used Text Mining (Sentiment Analysis on large scale Twitter and FB data) to identify product resonance and market opportunities using LSI and IT-IDF algorithms. (Python, nltk).
- Designed and created dashboards (including GIS data) for advisory board in order to support decision-making. (R, Shiny, ggplot2).
- Facilitated of co-innovation sessions in order to customize KPIs and support software internationalization. Implemented a customer’s churn prediction model helping identify opportunities within the Spain/Italy market. (R, caret)
UX Researcher @SAP Design & CoInnovation Center (DCC) Berlin, Germany May 2013 - July 2014
Adobe Suite, Balsamiq, R (Curl)
- Facilitation and support of Design Thinking awareness Workshops (in-house, with customers). Implementation of the Design Thinking approach end-to-end to develop innovative software solutions.
Internship @SAP Design & CoInnovation Center (DCC) Palo Alto, USA May 2013 - December 2013
Adobe Suite, Balsamiq, Python
- Worked as a User Researcher using qualitative and quantitative research methods to extract end-users insights.
- Facilitation and support of co-innovation workshops (in-house, with customers). Implementation of the Design Thinking approach end-to-end to develop software solutions. Design and conduction of user interviews and testing sessions (in-lab & onsite observation)
- Extraction and analysis of twitter data to identify market trends and target groups needs.
Research Assistant @Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) July 2010 - July 2012
Python, Protege, Rapidminer
Worked as a Research Assistant at several EU-funded projects including 'LT-World' and 'DFKI-LT - META-Net':
- Supervision and maintenance of the ontology-based portal LT-World. Design and implementation of a web crawler to extract relevant events. Design and implementation of an automated event-classifier using Python for automatically maintaining calendar events.
- Supervision and maintenance of the ontology-based portal META-NET.
M.Sc. Information Systems @Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany 2013 - 2016
R, Tableau, SPSS, SQL, SaSS, DB2
- Thesis: "Determination of user disengagement factors using sentiment analysis" (Prof. Stefan Lessmann)
- Selected Courses: Econometric Methods, Business Analytics & Data Science, Marketing Modeling, Datenanalyse, Statistical Programing Languages, Introduction to Database Systems
International Summer School in Economics and Management (ISSEM) @University of Havana, Cuba 2014, 2015
Development Economics, Design Thinking
- Participated as a tutor, teaching at the 'Design Thinking' course.
- Selected Courses: Development Economics, Information Mngt & IT Strategy
B.Sc. Computational Linguistics @University of Potsdam, Germany 2007 - 2011
Weka, Rapidminer, C++, Prolog
- Thesis: "Using Automated Text Categorization for knowledge portal updating purposes" (Prof. Manfred Stede - in collaboration with DFKI Berlin)
- Selected Courses: Theoretical Informatics (I+II), Computation Linguistics Methods,
Study Abroad: @University of Trento, Italy 2009 - 2010
Weka, SVM_Light, BART
- Activities: Development of an experiment for quality control assurance of user manual annotation in Coreference Systems using Amazon's Mechanical Turk and BART.
- Selected Courses: Machine Learning, Text Processing, Artificial Intelligence
Academic Training: Basic/Advanced Track @Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI dschool), Germany 2010 - 2011
Design Thinking approach, Innovation Management, Balsamiq
RStudio, ggplot2, rattle, Tex, it-idf, Python, scrappy, S3, RS3, rmr2
- Detection of user behaviour using sentiment analysis and topic modeling (LSI, IT-IDF). Extraction of the data using 'scrappy' and 'beautifulsoup'(Python). The data analysis and modeling was done with R using 'sentiment' (discontinued by CRAN).
RStudio, ggplot2, caret, Tex, regression models
- Replication of the Solow growth model based on (Mankiw, Romer and Weil, 1992) and revision of the model using extracted World Bank data.
RStudio, R, caret, ensemble
- Prediction of Customer Churn using the AdaBoost Classifier.
RStudio, Pycharm, Sublime, Kile | MacOS, Ubuntu
R, Python, Tex, SQL
ISSEM, Instructor Sept 2014, April 2015
Economics, Summer School, Cuba
- Worked as an Instructor at the course 'Applied Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking' with a group of international students from Berlin and Havana.
- Students were mixed with real star-ups to solve real life problems using the Design Thinking approach and the Business Canvas Model for Business development.
R-Ladies Miami, Organizer April 2017 - current
R, meetup, community building
- The goal of R-Ladies Miami is to build a more inclusive R community in Miami/Broward. THis is a non-profit, female-centric civil community, designed to develop it's members' R skills & knowledge through social, collaborative learning & sharing.