Ilse Tse

Team Lead, Data Scientist

• Led a California-based team of data scientists and engineers, managing end-to-end data pipeline and analytics projects and MLOps deployment
• Bridged day-to-day operations with leadership team's strategic goals; Directed multifaceted projects, from concept to deployment, in areas such as product recommendation and anomaly detection
• Initiated collaborations across Hyderabad and Toronto's device level/processing layer teams to standardize data models and IoT event structures, enhancing new and existing product support and event handling
• Advisor for GenAI Q&A chatbot project, increasing user engagement via interactive capabilities with products; Designed feedback function and data model, translating designs to deployment on Firestore with Full Stack team
• Built remaining-use-of-life predictive ML model for PowerG+ device batteries using Monte Carlo simulation, survival analysis, random survival forests, clustering / classification. Deployed POC to Flask app/RESTful API. Collaborated with hardware team to collect data from in-lab experiments
• Building NoSQL graph database (Neo4J) to explore dynamic relationships of alarms and sensors, creating context to send to central station. Triangle counting to identify collaborative alarm response, tight-knit sensor networks

Software Engineer in Data Science

• Designed and built internal data catalog tool with JSON data from GCP storage. Essential production tool used by data engineering to ingest 300GB daily data;
• Analyzed, designed and visualized historical data and behavioral events in PowerBI; published reports monitoring KPIs, used by client-facing teams in product, sales and marketing.

• Collaborated with zoologists and researchers from The Cheetah Conservation Fund to analyze questionnaire data spanning 24 years;
• Used mixed-effects statistical models, normality/correlation tests in R on longitudinal data to analyze conflict resolution strategies;
• Interpreted results of multiple imputations used on missing data in final report.