Data Science Experience

Jun 2024 – Jul 2026 Chief Data Scientist - Premier Health of America, Montréal

• Owned the company's data and AI strategy, acting as central decision-maker across executive leadership, operations, finance, product, and engineering

• Architected an LLM-based document-processing platform extracting structured data from healthcare timesheet and expense documents, using Azure Document Intelligence and OpenAI models; deployed to staging and validated by end users, production-ready

• Led an analysis of demand and supply dynamics to launch an initiative for a system matching staffing supply with client demand, identifying bottlenecks limiting agency supply growth

• Designed cloud-native AI services on Google Cloud Run with Azure AI and OpenAI integrations, partnering with engineering to integrate them into the company's healthcare staffing systems

• Directed an external Power BI analyst in building enterprise reporting across five healthcare staffing agencies (Québec, Ontario, BC), delivering dashboards for Finance, Operations, and agency leadership

Oct 2023 – Jun 2024    Senior Data Scientist - Hatch, Montréal

• Acted as the AI and data science lead on client engagements at this engineering, mining, and infrastructure consultancy, directing solution design and delivery across several concurrent projects

• Developed a computer vision approach to estimate particle size for an ongoing mine operations digital twin built, a virtual replica of a mining and mineral processing operation covering blasting, crushing, grinding, and flotation

• Led exploratory data analysis into catalyst production quality and consistency for a chemical processing client 

• Led a pilot evaluating whether Dataiku could integrate with a port operator's existing specialized data and simulation system

• Evaluated LLM and computer vision models for feasibility of an IoT-enabled bus stop asset monitoring system

Jan 2023 - August 2023 Chief Data Scientist - ORO Health, Montréal

• Developing deep learning algorithms for skin disease detection and triaging for moles

• Integrating in-house AI frameworks with LLMs to create conversational dermatology assessment and recommendation tool

• Working on the productization of AI frameworks 

• Communicating  between medical doctors and software development team

• Overseeing data science projects 

Sep 2020-Dec 2022 Data Scientist - ORO Health, Montréal

• Developing deep learning algorithms for skin disease detection

• Achieving over 90% accuracy in top-3 prediction with 42 skin diseases 

• Working on the productization of AI frameworks : Dermsmart AI

Jan 2020-Sep 2020 Junior Data Scientist - AuDela, Montréal

• Developed and supported classification and clustering based machine learning algorithms on telecommunication sector

• Supported the productization of AI frameworks 

2014-2020 PhD Researcher - McGill University, Montréal

• Investigated the location-specific inventory and sales dynamics by applying econometric models and machine learning techniques on large data sets, resulting 2% increase in revenue for a fast-fashion retailer located in Europe 

• Published an A level journal article 

• Using color histograms on image data, constructed a novel algorithm to optimize color assortment scheme for online stores 

• Gave lectures on operations management 

2012-2014 MSc Researcher - Middle East Technical University, Ankara  

• Developed parametric, nonparametric and hybrid approaches to improve short term electricity forecasting, achieving a 17% more accurate prediction of hourly electricity demand for an energy  solutions company in Turkey

2011-2012 Cash Management Optimization Project - IsBank, Istanbul

• Optimized the cash management system of a bank operating in Turkey as the final year undergraduate project

• As a team, optimized the number of central cash offices and their locations to minimize the total operational cost (by 18%) and to improve the utilization of the system (up to 50%) by  modeling it as set-covering and travelling salesman problems and approximating using vehicle routing algorithm