About
Data Scientist, Data Analyst & Machine Learning Engineer
Enthusiast in the field of Data Science, Data Analytics and Machine Learning with over 4 years' varied experience (research, teaching & industry). Especially fond of prototype/MVP design & development.
- City: Skopje, North Macedonia
- Age: 24
- Degree: Master of Science
- E-mail: gorjan.popovski@gmail.com
Topics of interest: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Representation Learning, Knowledge Engineering, Data Science, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Software Development, Algorithms and Complexity, Graph Theory, Optimization
Experience & Education
Education
Master of Information and Communication Technologies
2019.10 - 2020.09
Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Thesis title: Food Information Extraction and Data Normalization
- Combined two academic years in one calendar year
- Grade Average (GPA): 9.89/10
Bachelor of Science (Information Technology); sub-degree: Computer Science and Engineering
2016.09 - 2019.06
Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FCSE), Skopje, North Macedonia
- Thesis title: Information extraction from unstructured data and data normalization in the domain of food and nutrition science
- Grade Average (GPA): 9.63/10
Various certified Coursera specializations and courses
2015 - present
- Deep Learning Specialization (5 courses) [deeplearning.ai]
- Natual Language Processing Specialization (5 courses) [deeplearning.ai]
- Game Theory I [Stanford University & University of British Columbia]
- Game Theory II [Stanford University & University of British Columbia]
- Machine Learning [Stanford Universiy]
- Cryptography I [Stanford Universiy]
Professional Experience
Data Scientist
2021.04.06 - Present
- Part of core Data Science team.
- Designing and implementing systems related to energy trading:
- Data pipelines (scraping, cleaning, processing)
- Simulations
- Predictive modeling
- Timeseries forecasting
Data Scientist
2021.04.06 - Present
- Part of core Data Science team.
- Designing and implementing systems:
- Data-driven bot attack detection and mitigation
- Data-driven traffic filter optimization based on KPI statistics
Data Science Lecturer
2021.10.01 - Present [part-time]
- Lecturing SQL, Python Basics and Advanced Python in the domain of Data Science.
Freelance Data Science work on Upwork
2021.11.01 - Present [freelance]
Upwork
- Work on various Natural Language Processing (NLP) projects:
- Automatic agent-customer communication violation detection
- News aggregation
Research Summer Internship
2020.06.22 - 2020.09.09 [Internship]
Data and Science Lab (dlab) School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL
Visiting Researcher
2019.02.18 - 2020.03.22 & 2018.03.15 - 2018.06.15
Competitive Programming Trainer
2017.09.22 - 2018.09.22 [part-time]
- Preparing middle school and high school students for national and international competitive programming olympiads.
Skills
Programming languages (Descending order of proficiency):
- Python
- C++
- R
- C
- C#
- Clojure
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Octave/MATLAB
- Rust
Frameworks & Technologies (Alphabetical)
- Python: Flask, Jupyter, Keras. PyTorch, NLTK, NumPy, Numba, Pandas, Plotly/Dash, PyQT, SciPy, Tensorflow, Trax, coreNLP, huggingface, matplotpib, networkx, openNLP, scikit-learn, seaborn
- R: caret, coreNLP, dplyr, ggplot2, tidyr
- Databases: MongoDB, Redis, SQL (MS, Postgre)
- General: Docker, Git, Office suites, Tableau
Accolades
Competitive programming:
- National competitions:
- First award: 2015, 2012
- Second award: 2016, 2014, 2013
- Third award: 2011
- Macedonian Olympiad in Informatics (MOI):
- Bronze medal: 2016, 2014
- International:
- Bronze medal at Junior Balkan Olympiad in Informatics 2012
- IEEEXtreme:
- 12.0, 2018: ranked 186 of 2608 teams.
- 11.0, 2017: ranked 181 of 3350 teams.
- 10.0, 2017: ranked 281 of 1823 teams.
Two-time (2016-2018) award for excellent academic undergraduate performance throughout the academic year at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering.
Scholarships
- Postgraduate Ad Future Scholarship for study in Slovenia.
- Scholarship awarded to 100 students by the Ministry of Education of The Republic of North Macedonia for excellent undergraduate academic success.
Portfolio
Research:
- 25 conference and journal publications in the domain of Data Science.
- Work on Horizon2020 project FNS-CLOUD
- Full portfolio: GoogleScholar
Open source:
- GoogleTrendsAnchorBank (GTAB) Python library. (Principal contributor)
Hackathons:
- Won the team-based TP-LJ GreenHack 2021 in category Environment. (tool is in development)
Services
Data Science
Machine Learning
Data Analysis
Software Development
Data Pipeline Design & Development
Prototype & Product Development