Caterina Bonan
Incoming Services Data Scientist @ Five9
Current residence:
Cambridge, UK.
Settlement status:
Pre-settled.
A Bit About Me
I am an expert in syntactic theory, language documentation and data modelling, currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge.
I am fond of Deep NLP techniques for human-computer interaction purposes. A big advocate for OpenSource, I love collaborating on translation projects to make NLP and ML accessible to everyone (most recently, the 🤗 course) and the development of big language models (at present, polyglot).
Since June, I have been a Data and AI trainee at AiCore, where I am specialising in Machine Learning and Data Engineering. Lately, I have taken part in numerous projects ranging from image classification and webscraping, the creation of conversational chatbots and recommendation systems, and the development of a corpus of spoken interactions in Romance (pypelet).
Recent work history
May 2022 - present
September 2019 - present
September 2015 - August 2019
MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA ENGINEERING TRAINEE
AiCore (London)
Training in AI & Data using industry-standard tools. Working on industry projects throughout (cf. Experience Through Projects).
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Skills: Software engineering (Git & GitHub, advanced Python, algorithms & data structures); Data engineering (SQL, data lakes, data warehousing, web scraping); Cloud Engineering (cloud computing, designing/building APIs, Docker, Apache Airflow, AWS Serverless Stack).
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
University of Cambridge (UK)
Worked on 30+ varieties throughout. Published 8 peer-reviewed research articles, 2 edited volumes and 1 research monograph. Awarded a SNSF mobility scholarship twice.
Tools: Excel, Python, MatPlotLib, Selenium, LaTeX, VS code, Word and Power Point.
Links to scientific writing samples: Cadernos, IOS Press, Glossa, Isogloss.
RESEARCH ASSISTANT IN THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Fully-funded doctoral research as part of a SNSF lab. Worked on standard and non-standard French, and 50+ northern Italian varieties. Published 3 research articles, 1 co-edited volume, and a PhD dissertation.
Tools: Excel, Python, Praat, LaTeX, Word and Power Point.
Education
September 2015 - August 2019
December 2015 - September 2017
September 2011 - June 2013
September 2008 - August 2011
PHD IN GENERAL LINGUISTICS (dissertation).
University of Geneva (Switzerland)
CERTIFICAT DE SPECIALISATION EN LINGUISTIQUE
University of Geneva (Switzerland)
MA IN THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Italy)
BA IN SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE
UniversitÀ Ca' Foscari Venezia (Italy)
Skills
Linguistics
Syntax
International Phonetic Alphabet
Corpus linguistics
Romance languages
Language documentation
Natural Language Processing
Deep NLP
Research
Quantitative and qualitative methods
Data visualisation
Data analysis
Storytelling
Scientific writing
Public speaking
Programming
Python (proficient)
Java (basic)
LaTeX (intermediate)
Libraries & tools
Selenium
pandas
NLTK
pytorch
MatPlotLib
spaCy
Languages
Italian (native)
French (late bilingual)
English (proficient)
Spanish (elementary)