Popular Machine Learning Mentors

Hey!

Congrats on choosing data science and machine learning. Regardless of your path, it will be long, fun, and very rewarding!

My educational background is in Medicine, Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering. Professionally, I am the Chief Scientific Officer of Vertex Labs, a machine learning research and consulting group. I more or less lead the research team as well as give internal lectures and host a weekly machine learning book club (my favorite part of the week).

I've done (and currently still do) projects in Finance, Pharma, Biotech, Medicine, and ...

I am the author of the first and second editions of Mastering Machine Learning with scikit-learn. I have previously taught General Assembly's introductory data science course. I have worked in machine learning engineering and data science roles at several NYC startups over the past 8 years.

I'm a software engineer from Brazil, currently working in Germany. My bachelor degree is in automation and control engineering (fancy name for robotics) and I'm currently writing my thesis on data science applied to text analysis, mostly using Python, but recently expanding to other languages as well.

I have 7 years of experience teaching English to engineers/lawyers/doctors, so I am well aware of the busy lifestyles they lead and like to maintain a pleasant learning experience without giving away the answers too quickly. I also have 2 years of experience ...