Daniel Witvliet

Daniel Witvliet is a Senior Data Scientist at Wealthsimple, focusing on Managed Invest and Wealthsimple for Business, as well as Banking and Crypto, since May 2024. Prior to this role, Daniel served as a Senior Data Scientist at Coursera, where significant contributions included enhancing site-wide revenue through A/B testing and leading a team to optimize data analytics infrastructure. Daniel's earlier experience includes a postdoctoral research position at Harvard University, where research centered on childhood experiences and brain behavior, and a graduate researcher role at the University of Toronto, managing a large interdisciplinary project related to brain network data. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the University of Toronto and a Data Scientist certification from Dataquest.io, along with undergraduate degrees in Molecular Genetics and Cell and Systems Biology, and Molecular Biomedicine from respective institutions.