DR. NAMRATA GURUNG

PhD Physics || Data-Science (ML/NLP) || Bridging Tech and Social Impact

Grew up in Delhi, with roots in Darjeeling, India. Moved to Germany for Masters, then to Switzerland for PhD, and now, am back again in Germany. Consider myself as a global citizen.

DATA SCIENTIST

July 2021 - Present

QualityMinds GmbH, Munich, Germany

• Part of the R&D Team, specifically working on Machine-Learning projects 

POSTDOC

Mar 2021 - Sep 2021

Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland

• Diversifier-NLP Project in collaboration with Witty Works, GmbH to create a more diverse and inclusive language for job ads. 

HEAD OF DATA

Dec 2020 - Mar 2021

Head of Data, Fragnach, Switzerland

• Analyze text data from surveys and automate processes.

NLP INTERN

Oct - Dec 2020

NLP Intern at Thomson Reuters Labs, Zug, Switzerland

• Carried out Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks for fact-extraction from Legal documents

• Implemented deep-learning techniques (such as pointer-generator network, routing transformer, BERT-like models) for Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Classification tasks.

• For a short summary of the project, check out the following link.

DATA SCIENCE

Aug - Nov 2020

Student at immersive Data-Science Bootcamp at Propulsion Academy, Zurich, Switzerland

• Data munging, experimental design and bootstrapping using R/Python/numpy/pandas

• Machine Learning projects using scikit-learn/Python

• Text mining, language and topic modeling projects using NLTK

• Data visualization and graphic design using matplotlib, ggplot2, bokeh and Twitter bootstrap

Other Activities: Collaborating on independent social impact projects with Spirit of the Game Foundation and Asha for Education 

PHD, PHYSICS

2016 - 2020

ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

• Designed and conducted experiments at large-scale facilities (SLS and SwissFEL in Switzerland, Diamond in UK, SACLA in Japan)

• Proposal writing

• Data analysis of Big Data using Python and Matlab

• Physics Lab Teaching Assistant (HS 2019)

• Publications: N.Gurung, et al. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2021), N.Gurung et al. PRB 98, 115116 (2018), M.Ramakrishnan et al. Nature Partner Journals Quantum Materials 4(1) (2019), J.R.L. Mardegan et. al arXiv preprint: 2002.12214 (2020), H.Ueda et al. Phys. Rev. Research 3, L022003 (2021), 

• Other academic certifications: International Organizations Management, Neuroeconomics, Neuromarketing.

Other Activities: Volunteering for Social Impact Organizations 

MSC. PHYSICS

2013 - 2015

University of Stuttgart and Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

• Designed and conducted experiments using neutron and x-ray diffraction techniques (MPI Stuttgart, Germany, and ILL Grenoble, France)

• Data analysis using Matlab

• Publications: J. Bertinshaw, N. Gurung et al. PRL 123, 137204 (2019)

BSC. (H) PHYSICS

Gargi College, University of Delhi, India

2010 - 2013

SCHOOL

Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Delhi, India

2010