Niels is a machine learning engineer and core maintainer of Flyte, an open-source ML orchestration tool, and author and maintainer of Pandera, a statistical typing and data testing tool for dataframes. His mission is to develop open-source tools for making data science and machine learning practitioners more productive.
He has a Masters in Public Health with a specialization in sociomedical science and public health informatics, and prior to that a background in developmental biology and immunology. His research interests include reinforcement learning, AutoML, creative machine learning, and fairness, accountability, and transparency in automated systems.