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Konrad Banachewicz Data ScientistKB

Konrad Banachewicz

Data Scientist
  • Suggested rate
    €550 / day
  • Experience15+ years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
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Industry fields of expertise
Banking and Financial Services
E-commerce
Energy and Electricity
Konrad in a few words
Kaggle Grandmaster with 15+ years in ML/AI. Led generative AI projects at IKEA, eBay and others. Published author of 3 ML books. PhD-level expertise with practical business focus. Specialized in LLMs, recommenders, time series & real-time ML applications.

Experience
  • IKEA
    Principal Data Scientist
    August 2023 - Today (1 year and 9 months)
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Data science advisor in AI Lab, a cross-functional team facilitating the implementation of AI methods in IKEA.
  • TNG Quant Consultancy
    Owner
    February 2010 - Today (15 years and 3 months)
    Providing quantitative consulting services: focused research analysis, risk assessment, as well as development and testing of application prototypes and automated reporting procedures. Some projects include: evaluating statistical software engines, developing novel pricing methodologies and construction of predictive models tailored to specific markets.
  • Adevinta
    Staff Data Scientist
    January 2023 - August 2023 (7 months)
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Data science manager / tech lead of 6 people team, developing data science strategy and guiding team
    development. Selected projects delivered by my team:
    - Personalization through recommenders: similar / complementary items (6pct CTR increase in MP)
    - ranking of search results: real-time prediction of click probability (3.3pct increase in CTR Kijiji CA)
    - fraud detection: reply moderation and trusted user score (11pct drop in customer complaints)
    - enhancing buyer experience with algorithmically generated improvements maximizing transaction
    likelihood (6.1pct increase in vibrancy on Gumtree UK); CLM, CLV
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Education
  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
    2007
    PhD, Mathematics
  • Master of Science
    University of Warsaw
    2001
    MSc, Mathematics
  • I LO im. Stanisława Staszica, Lublin
    1997