my name isn’t really Chip.
It’s Louise Gillian but please call me Chip. I sound cooler that way 🤣
I’m a data “practitioner”
Officially, as of writing, I’m a Machine Learning Consultant at Thinking Machines Data Science. Though I specialize in ML, my day-to-day role revolves around all kinds of data-things (e.g. extraction, cleaning, analysis, wrangling, writing pipelines, training and rolling models out, etc.)… so I guess it’s more accurate to say that I practice data in general…? 🤷🏻♀️
before that, I was taking my masters
After a year as a data engineer at BuildZoom, I decided to go back to school and study applied deep learning. It was a great 2.5 years (with a side trip research internship in NAIST, Japan) and I was able to publish a few papers! Notably:
- CLRGaze: Contrastive Learning of Eye Movement Signals, 29th European Signal Processing Conference, Dublin, Ireland, August 23-27, 2021
- GazeMAE: General Representations of Eye Movements using a Micro-Macro Autoencoder, 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Milan, Italy, Jan 10-15, 2021
Here’s my 🎓 Google Scholar profile
Other than the nerdy stuff
I’m just an ordinary person who values work-life balance a lot. Day-to-day (outside work and sleep), I usually workout, go for a run (I’ve run half-marathons! 🥈) and just hang out with family and friends.
My personal interests are:
- 📸 photography (I have a small compilation of fave photos here!)
- 🌏 traveling (I am the trip planner in our family and I’ve solo-travelled a bit around Asia / Australia)
- 🎬 (mostly indie) films (I’ve logged some films on my letterboxd)
- 🎸 music (big fan of Radiohead and of ’90s-’10s pop-rock/punk music, but also listens to chill-er songs)
- 📖 reading (you can see what I’ve been reading on kindle here)
Say hi
I can be reached by e-mail at chippybautista@gmail.com. Or, you know, just connect with me on LinkedIn!