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Philipp Blandfort

Verified Expert in Engineering

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Developer

Location

Berlin, Germany

Toptal Member Since

October 23, 2019

Philipp completed a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and can look back to 4 years of research experience plus two years of freelancing. His work included text analysis, information extraction from text and images, user behavior analysis, and the creation of datasets. He is performant in interdisciplinary teams and is enthusiastic about building AI systems that help us overcome real-world issues and move in new directions.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Computer Vision Machine Learning Natural Language Processing (NLP)Deep Learning Python Scikit-learn NumPy Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)PHP Linux Algorithms Web Scraping SQL PyTorch Data Annotation NLTK

Portfolio

Freelance

Scikit-learn, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP)...

Columbia University

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Vision, Annotations...

digipen technologies GmbH

Python, Java

Experience

Python - 7 years Computer Vision - 6 years Machine Learning - 6 years Artificial Intelligence (AI) - 6 years Data Science - 5 years Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) - 4 years Deep Learning - 4 years GPT - 4 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

PyTorch, Docker, Git, Python, Linux

The most amazing...

...software I've developed is a Python-based toolkit that uses NLP to monitor trends in computer science research from publication metadata.

Work Experience

Data Scientist

2019 - PRESENT

Freelance

Developed a software package to extract information from scanned documents.
Helped to bring code to production by debugging and optimizing performance.
Developed a web application to analyze research trends in computer science.
Designed and implemented two machine learning pipelines in the bioinformatics domain (NLP and knowledge graph).

Technologies: Scikit-learn, Artificial Intelligence (AI), GPT, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Docker, Machine Learning, Git, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Algorithms

Visiting Scholar

2016 - 2017

Columbia University

Developed an annotation system to annotate social media data.
Extracted various concepts from tweets with images, using computer vision and natural language processing.
Discussed with researchers from various backgrounds and coordinated the team.

Technologies: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Vision, Annotations, GPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Natural Language Processing (NLP), PHP, PostgreSQL

Student Assistant

2013 - 2015

digipen technologies GmbH

Developed an algorithm in Java for interpolating and rendering handwriting.
Built a dataset of scanned documents for handwriting recognition.
Ran experiments on handwriting recognition in Python.

Technologies: Python, Java

Experience

Subjective Image Captioning

The goal of this project was to automatically generate subjective captions for images.

To this end, we ran a crowdsourcing study to analyze how humans naturally caption images and developed machine learning methods for generating captions such as "Cute dog in a nice park."

Multimodal Social Media Analysis

Using computer vision and natural language processing to detect problematic content on Twitter.

Python-based Organizer

https://gitlab.com/blandfort/organizer

A light-weight organizer for taking notes and synchronizing them with a web server in an encrypted format.

Information Extraction From Documents

Designed and implemented a pipeline for automatic information extraction from scanned documents, using machine learning (NLP). This included the implementation of automated tests for the pipeline, optimizing the extraction service, and making it production-ready.

ML Pipeline for Biomarker Discovery

A Python-based API to create knowledge graphs from biomedical data and identify entities of interest from these graphs using machine learning. Available biomedical data included measurements from patient studies (multi-omics), public databases, and causal relations.

Skills

Languages

Python, SQL, PHP, Java

Libraries/APIs

Scikit-learn, NumPy, Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), Twitter API, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Matplotlib, SciPy

Paradigms

Data Science, Functional Programming, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)

Platforms

Jupyter Notebook, Linux, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Other

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Research, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Algorithms, GPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Teamwork, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), OCR, Web Scraping, Crowdsourcing, Neural Networks, Mentorship & Coaching, Annotations, Knowledge Graphs

Storage

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch

Frameworks

Flask

Tools

Git, GitLab

Education

2016 - 2020

Ph.D. in Cognitive Science

TU Kaiserslautern and DFKI - Kaiserslautern, Germany

2013 - 2015

Master of Science Degree in Mathematics

TU Kaiserslautern - Kaiserslautern, Germany

2009 - 2013

Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics

TU Kaiserslautern - Kaiserslautern, Germany

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