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Name Simon Eiriksson
Email simon@simoneiriksson.dk
Url simoneiriksson.dk
Summary Data scientist and public health analyst with 10+ years of experience working with Danish national health data, now transitioning into machine learning research. Currently pursuing an M.Sc. in Mathematical Modelling and Computation (Machine Learning focus) at the Technical University of Denmark, conducting thesis research on stochastic differential equations for generative modelling.

Work

  • 2024.09 - 2024.12
    Teaching Assistant
    Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
    • Course: Deep Learning
    • Student evaluation: The only TA (where we were) to actively walk around and ask how we were progressing in the groupwork. Shoutout for being the real teacher in this course
  • 2016.02 - 2023.09
    Independent Data Scientist & Consultant in Public Health Data
    Eiriksson Consulting Aps
    • Statistical analysis, ML-modelling, data analysis, report writing
    • BI, ETL, data wrangling, data quality research
    • Development of key performance indicators on national and regional health data
    • Co-authored two volumes of regional health surveys for Region Zealand
    • Toolbox: T-SQL, SAS, Python, VBA
  • 2016.01 - 2016.06
    Assistant Lecturer
    IT-University of Copenhagen (ITU)
    • Digital Management, Governance and Accountability
  • 2013.05 - 2015.09
    Administrative officer
    Department for Health Data, National Institute for Health Data and Disease Control under the Ministry of Health in Denmark
    • Coordinator of international relations and Chairman of the Nordic Medico-Statistical Committee (NOMESCO)
    • Providing health statistics to international health organizations (OECD, NOMESCO, and EUROSTAT), public media, and the Danish parliament
    • Development of the new National Patients Registry
    • SQL/SAS programming
    • Data extraction from national health registries for research projects
    • Supervision of researchers
  • 2011.09 - 2015.02
    Teaching Assistant
    Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
    • Anthropological Methods
    • Philosophy of Science in Anthropology
    • Quantitative Methods
  • 2004 - 2012
    Instructor
    Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
    • Introduction to Mathematics (mathematical analysis)
    • Linear Algebra I
    • Mathematical Models in Biology
    • Introduction to Microeconomics
    • Mathematics and Data Processing for Bioscience

Education

  • 2023.09 - 2025.10

    Lundtofte, Denmark

    M.Sc in Mathematical Modeling and Computation
    Technical University of Denmark
    • Advanced Machine Learning
    • Deep Learning
    • Dynamic Optimization
    • Bayesian Machine Learning
    • Model-Based Machine Learning
    • Advanced Deep Learning in Computer Vision
    • Machine Learning for Signal Processing
    • Machine Learning Operations
    • Intro to Reinforcement Learning and Control
    • Scientific Computing for ODEs and PDEs
    • Functional Analysis
    • Digital learning technology and entrepreneurship
    • Innovation in Engineering
    • Programming in C++
    • Multivariate Statistics
    • Project: Riemannian Laplace Approximation via Subspaces and Bayesian Quadrature
    • Project: Improving uncertainty quantification via Bayesian neural networks
  • 2019.09 - 2019.12

    St. Andrews, Scotland

    Visiting Graduate Student
    University of St. Andrews, Scotland
    • Mathematical Statistics
    • Markov Chains and Processes
    • Bayesian Inference
  • 2009.09 - 2013.06

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    M.Sc in Anthropology
    University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Thesis: Policing the Margins of the State - Community policing in Kibera, Nairobi
  • 2007.09 - 2008.01

    Habana, Cuba

    Exchange Student
    Universidad de la Habana, Cuba
    • Microeconomía
    • Planificación Global de la Economiía Nacional
    • Práctica Integral de Lengua Española
    • Teoría e Historia de Filosofía Marxista-Leninista
  • 2005.09 - 2008.06

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    B.Sc in Anthropology
    University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2001.09 - 2005.06

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    B.Sc in Mathematics
    University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Thesis on Universal Algebra

Awards

  • 1921.11.01
    Nordic Africa Institute Study Grant
    Nordic Africa Institute
    A 1-month stay at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in order to facilitate use of the Institute’s library collections on contemporary Africa
  • 1921.11.01
    Travel Scholarship
    Institute for Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
    Scholarship for my studies at the Universidad de la Habana, Cuba

Certificates

Nordic Probabilistic AI Summer School
University of Copenhagen 2024-06-21
Summer School of Logic Language and Computation
National University of Ireland, Galway 2022-07-01
Time Series Analysis
Technical University of Denmark 2020-06-01
Computer Architecture and Engineering
Technical University of Denmark 2019-12-15
Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Modeling
Technical University of Denmark 2018-06-01

Publications

Skills

Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Bayesian Machine Learning
Generative Modelling
Probabilistic Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Stochastic Differential Equations
Variational Inference
Computer Vision
Bayesian Neural Networks
Time Series Analysis
Uncertainty Quantification
Programming tools and languages
Python
Pytorch
Scikit-learn
Numpy
Statistical Analysis System (SAS)
T-SQL
Analytical Skills
Report writing
Teaching
Policy development
Statistical Analysis
Key Performance Indicators in Health care
Data Quality Research
Statistical Analysis of Health Data
Data juggling
Advanced data wrangling in SAS and T-SQL
ETL
Database models for data warehousing
Health Data
Danish National Civil Registration System
Danish National Patient Registry (LPR)
All other Danish National Health Registries
Case-mix system
Survey Analysis

Languages

Danish
Native speaker
English
Fluent
Spanish
Almost fluent