People behind WiDS Zurich 2020
Board
president in action
Bianca-Cristina Cristescu
Software Engineer in Applied Machine Learning, Google
Cristina is working on Applied Machine Learning Google in Zurich for the Assistant team. She finished her Masters in Computer Science at ETH Zurich where she focused on machine learning and computational sciences. She previously worked at CERN for their data analysis platform and completed her Bachelor studies in computer science at the University of Manchester in the UK. She believes the data science is the revolution of our days. In her free time she loves hiking and dancing.
vice preisdent
Lidia Freitas
phd Student, Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich
Rosa is a PhD student in Neuromuscular Biomechanics at the Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics, Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Together with the University Children's Hospital Basel, she is developing a model for predicting gait outcomes after treatment in children with neuromusculoskeletal disorders.
TREASURER
Dhivyabharathi Ramasamy
PhD Candidate, Institute of Informatik, UZH
Dhivya previously did her Masters in Computer Science in Switzerland, majoring in Data Science and with a minor in Banking and Finance. Her main areas of interest include Data Science, AI & Intelligent Systems, HCI and Software Engineering.
Rosa Visscher
PHD STUDENT, INSTITUTE FOR BIOMECHANICS, ETH ZURICH
Rosa is a PhD student in Neuromuscular Biomechanics at the Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics, Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Together with the University Children's Hospital Basel, she is developing a model for predicting gait outcomes after treatment in children with neuromusculoskeletal disorders.
Francesca Vitalini
Solutions Consultant, Mirai Solutions GmbH, zurich
Francesca is a physicist by training, with a PhD in computational molecular biology from FU Berlin, Germany. She currently works as a Consultant and data science advocate with a passion for community activities. She has experience in open source projects and training.
Larissa Laich
MASTER STUDENT, COMPUTER SCIENCE, ETH ZURICH
Larissa is a Masters student in Computer Science at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. In her Masters, she is focussing in software engineering and machine learning and is fascinated by data science. Larissa did an internship at Google, Apple and Bloomberg and a research internship at the Visual Computing Center at KAUST.
Natalie Barcicki
Master Student, bioinformatics, ETH Zurich
Natalie completed her Bachelor studies in Operations Research at Princeton University in the US. After developing an interest in the intersection of computation and medicine, she began her Master degree in bioinformatics at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. She is currently working on a thesis that applies machine learning methods to biomedical data with the larger vision of improving healthcare. She believes in the power of data to open up new frontiers in the field.
Idil Kanpolat
Junior Software Engineer, Comerge, zurich
Idil graduated from Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Masters program of ETH Zurich. During her studies, she focused on deep learning where she worked on GANs, NLP, multi-modal learning. She did an internship in the Signal Processing Laboratory of EPFL and in the Computer Vision Laboratory of POSTECH. She finds the power of data and the impact it can have on humanity fascinating.
Anna Volokitin
PhD student, the Computer Vision Lab, ETH ZURICH
Anna is a PhD student in the Computer Vision Lab at ETH Zurich. She earned her Masters in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London and was a visiting researcher at MIT. Her research interests are understanding how current machine learning methods are similar and different to learning in humans and hierarchical compositional models.
Mirna Kramar
Phd student, mpi-ds Goettingen, Germany
Mirna is a final year PhD student at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, Germany. She is a biophysicist by training and studies biological networks from experimental and theoretical point of view. Witnessing the importance of data in research first hand, she got intrigued by data science. She is also passionate about teaching and loves generating enthusiasm for science and learning in general.
Michael Wiegner
Master student, compUter science, ETH Zurich
Michael is a Masters Student in Computer Science at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland, after having pursued his undergraduate studies in Germany and Japan. His main areas of interest are an intersection of Machine Learning and Software Engineering. Since a young age, Michael has been fascinated by languages, which is why he has conducted research in Natural Language Processing.
Bianca-Cristina Cristescu
Master student, compUter science, ETH Zurich
Cristina is a doing an internship in the Knowledge Graph team at Google Zurich and finishing her Masters in Computer Science at ETH Zurich where she focused on machine learning and computational sciences. She previously worked at CERN for their data analysis platform and completed her Bachelor studies in computer science at the University of Manchester in the UK. She believes the data science is the revolution of our days.
Graphic designer
Zana Mrsa
GRAPHIC Designer, zagreb, croatia
Zana Mrsa is a graphic designer based in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated at Faculty of Graphic Arts on University of Zagreb. Since then, she worked at several prominent design studios, where she served as Art Director and helped design the award-winning visuals. She enjoys creating new identities and takes lots of time for choosing the right color and good typography.
Illustrator
Mara Drozdova
ILLUSTRATOR, riga, latvia
Mara Drozdova is an illustrator based in Riga, Latvia. She graduated from Audio Visual Media Art Masters program of Art Academy of Latvia. Mara appreciates every chance to use her skills for raising awarness of strong social and ethical couses. Through her confident characters she founds exciting to inspire people to be better version of themselves.