Alexandre Puttick
Alexandre Puttick is a data science researcher, writer and educator based in Biel. He completed his PhD in Pure Mathematics at ETH Zürich in 2019 and has since been studying the intersection of data, AI and society from a multidisciplinary perspective. In the summer of 2020, he taught an introductory data science course based on case studies of “data-driven activism” at the School of Machines, Making and Make-believe in Berlin, Germany. Since Fall 2021, he has been engaged at the Bern University of Applied Sciences as a postdoc researcher in the Applied Machine Intelligence group led by Prof. Mascha Kurpicz-Briki. His main projects are BurnoutWords, which is aimed at developing clinical tools in psychology for the detection of burnout from open-ended textual responses, and BIAS, a Horizon Europe project examining bias and fairness in AI recruitment tools. He simultaneously works as a research associate on the project Latent Spaces: Performing Ambiguous Data at the Zürich University of the Arts. https://alexandrerputtick.wordpress.com