
dilara -
Senior Data Scientist | Machine Learning & NLP
Salary / Daily rate
Toulouse, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
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About me
Intro
Data Scientist with 4+ years of expertise in ML pipelines, anomaly detection, and LLMs across aerospace, finance, and e-commerce. Delivered end-to-end solutions reducing false positives and accelerating time-to-market using Python, TensorFlow, and MLOps. Specialized in predictive maintenance, NLP systems, and demand forecasting to drive measurable business impact.
Work experience
Data Scientist
Intellico.ai
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
3 years 2 months
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
• Anomaly Detection – Aerospace & Energy (2022–2023) Developed anomaly detection systems for satellite manufacturing and solar panel maintenance using unsupervised ML techniques (Isolation Forest, Autoencoders, One-Class SVM, LSTM). Improved predictive maintenance and quality control by reducing false positives. • Quality Prediction & Formulation Optimization – Cosmetics & Food (2022–2025) Built end-to-end ML pipelines for predicting product quality from lab data using multi-output regression. Applied MLOps (CI/CD, monitoring, deployment) to deliver a cloud-based API, accelerating formulation testing and time-to-market. • Demand Forecasting & Recommendation – E-commerce (2023, 6 Months) Developed LSTM/RNN-based models for multi-item demand forecasting. Engineered time-series features to improve inventory planning. Contributed to a recommendation system using collaborative filtering and clustering to boost user engagement. • Customer Segmentation & High-Potential Client Prediction – Insurance (2024–2025) Designed ML pipeline for segmenting customers and predicting high-potential leads using structured demographic and transactional data. Applied classification models (Random Forest, XGBoost) with MLOps for model deployment and marketing integration. • Question-Answering System with LLMs – EdTech (2024–2025) Built a knowledge-based QA system using NLP and LLMs (GPT, BERT, Haystack, RAG). Designed a FastAPI-powered chatbot integrated with a custom knowledge graph to enhance user interaction and support. • Proficient in tools like NumPy, Pandas, PyTorch, Statsmodels, Scikit-learn, Keras, TensorFlow, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoos, matplotlib, OpenCV, SciPy, and Arima family.
Data Scientist
UniCredit
May 2021 - Jan 2022
9 months
Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy
• Research on Sentiment Analysis Techniques: Conducted extensive research on sentiment analysis techniques, including lexicon-based approaches, NLP transformers, and evaluation methods for sentiment analysis to understand and enhance analytical accuracy. • Development of a Novel Sentiment Transfer Method: Developed a unique sentiment transfer method from scratch by integrating lexicon-based methods, sentiment classification, and advanced NLP transformers such as Bert and FinBert, enabling innovative applications in sentiment analysis. • Financial Sentiment Analysis Using FinBert: Utilized the FinBert model to effectively label a financial statement dataset, significantly improving the accuracy and relevance of sentiment analysis within the financial domain. • Advancements in Sentiment Transfer Research: Contributed to the advancement of sentiment transfer research by modifying and optimizing an experimental study, specifically tailored to meet project objectives and dataset requirements. • Analysis and Insight Generation from Experiments: Collected and thoroughly analyzed experimental results, delivering valuable insights and actionable findings to guide research and decision-making processes.
Google Data Camp at Sapienza University
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
2 months
Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy
• Training camp organized at Sapienza University. The aim was to build an image search engine method based on Neural Networks (3rd place in the competition).
Deep Learning Engineer Intern
Loggma
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
3 months
İzmir, Türkiye
• In the predictive maintenance project for solar panels, various machine learning and data analysis tools were utilized, including NumPy, Pandas, Statsmodels, Scikit-learn, Keras, and TensorFlow. SQL, specifically PostgreSQL, was employed to manage and analyze large datasets. By applying predictive modeling techniques, maintenance schedules were optimized, leading to increased efficiency and reduced costs.
Education
Sapienza Università di Roma
Master's degree
2019 - 2021
2 years 1 month
Yaşar Üniversitesi (Yaşar University)
Bachelor of Engineering - BE
2014 - 2019
5 years 1 month
CentraleSupélec
Artificial Intelligence
2018 - 2018
1 month
Utrecht University
Business Management and IT
2017 - 2017
1 month