Thoranna Bender

Position: Data Scientist at Todai, Technical Advisor at Hello Ada
Categories: Mentors
Location: Region Hovedstaden, Region Sjælland

Background

I have a BSc in Software Engineering and a MSc in Human-Centered AI. I have worked as a data scientist and consultant at Todai since graduating in the beginning of 2024. A few months ago I also became the technical advisor for Hello Ada, a Danish startup building a learning platform for kids powered by AI. Additionally, I worked as a student research engineer on the AI team at Uizard (now acquired by Miro), and collaborated with the Pioneer Centre of AI and Vivino on a multimodal project that created a flavor space for wine, resulting in a public dataset and a NeurIPS paper.

Motivation 

I want to support aspiring data scientists from diverse backgrounds and specifically those that might be underrepresented in the field thrive within the data science community in Denmark. My goal is to help remove obstacles and create more opportunities for underrepresented groups to succeed in Danish data science roles.

Skills, expertise, and interests 

    • data science
    • machine learning
    • deep learning
    • artificial intelligence
    • natural language processing (NLP)
    • problem solving
    • computer vision
    • software engineering
    • consulting
    • social (data) science
    • image analysis
    • image processing