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I studied statistics and ML at ETH Zurich until December 2023. After graduating, I built machine learning pipelines and products as a freelancer and explored some ideas of my own. As of May 2025, I am working on general-purpose algorithms for robotic arms, making robot deployments so easy that you don’t need a technical background.

My inbox is open for anything related to robotics: dominique.c.a.paul@gmail.com

A high-level timeline

2015–2018 – Studied business and economics in St. Gallen. Figured out how to make my thesis a CS project and built object-detection pipelines in TensorFlow.

2018–2020 – Interned at BCG and as a data scientist at On. Took three months off to read Introduction to Statistical Learning and work through Stanford’s CS231n and CS224n. Worked as a data scientist for Lakestar, a VC fund.

2019 & 2020 – After holding several guest lectures, I was invited by the University of St. Gallen to teach my own course on Data Science.

2020 – Started studying statistics at ETH Zurich.

2021 (Feb–July) – Short break from studying to clear containers in Sierra Leone for my passion project Sierra Leone Hockey.

2023 – Finished studies at ETH Zurich, published my master’s thesis at NeurIPS. Also published this and this paper in computational genomics.

2024–April 2025 – Built ML pipelines and applications for other start-ups as a freelancer. Explored some ideas of my own.

May 2025–Now – Working on ML models for autonomous robotic arms.