Jan is a data scientist at Instaffo GmbH, where he develops data products for the HR-tech industry, including the platform’s core job-candidate matching algorithm. His daily work revolves around un-/supervised machine learning, such as finding similarities between skills and categorizing job titles. Jan holds a Master's degree in information management from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal and a Bachelor’s degree in business informatics from the Cooperative State University in Mannheim, Germany.
Jan has already spoken at TEDx (about genetic algorithms) and PyData (about multi-objective optimization), among other conferences and seminars. Further, he is a published researcher in the area of deep learning and evolutionary optimization and worked as a teacher for natural language processing.
While his models are fitting, you can find him baking cakes, gardening or playing mini golf around Heidelberg, Germany. Currently, Jan is organizing PyData events in the Rhine-Neckar region. You can reach Jan at jan.jagusch@gmail.com.