Nils Y. Hammerla

Nils Y. Hammerla has a diverse work experience in the field of engineering and machine learning. Nils Y. is currently working as the VP of Engineering at coding.bio since March 2023. Prior to this role, they held the position of Sr. Manager, ML Research at Twitter from October 2022 to February 2023. Nils Y. also served as the Manager, ML Research at Twitter from August 2020 to October 2022.

Before joining Twitter, Nils worked at babylon health as the Director of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing from April 2017 to August 2020. Nils Y. also worked as a Machine Learning Lead and a Data Scientist - Machine Learning at babylon health.

Nils's academic background includes research and teaching positions. Nils Y. worked as a Research Scientist at Newcastle University from December 2014 to March 2016. Nils Y. also pursued their PhD at Newcastle University from December 2010 to December 2014, during which they also worked as a Research Assistant. Additionally, they were a Visiting Research Student at Georgia Institute of Technology from August 2012 to November 2012.

In their earlier career, Nils worked in web development roles. Nils Y. was a Developer at just-rubbish? webdevelopment from July 2007 to June 2010, focusing on backend development and extensive frontend development. Nils Y. also worked as a Developer at Standpunkt Interaktiv GmbH from November 2005 to June 2007, where their responsibilities included backend development, frontend development, web-site security, and administration.

Overall, Nils Y. Hammerla possesses a wealth of experience in engineering, machine learning, and web development through various leadership and research positions.

Nils Y. Hammerla earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Computer Science from Newcastle University from 2010 to 2014. Prior to that, they obtained a Diplom degree in Computer Science & Physics from TU Dortmund University, where they studied from 2003 to 2010. In 2007 and 2008, Hammerla also briefly attended UCL to focus on Machine Learning and Software Engineering, although a specific degree is not mentioned.