Laura C

Data Scientist

Sensemakers • Full-time

Sep 2025 - Present • 8 mos

I work on building end-to-end AI systems for autonomous marine monitoring, from cloud data architecture (GCP & BigQuery) to computer vision models for underwater habitat segmentation and real-time visual perception. My role supports autonomous systems and large-scale environmental data analysis. - Design and maintain the Google Cloud & BigQuery data architecture, enabling scalable ingestion, storage, and analysis of large multimodal datasets (imagery, environmental sensors, telemetry). - Develop computer vision models for underwater seabed and habitat segmentation, including multi-label semantic segmentation of vegetation, geological features, and seabed structures. - Build end-to-end ML pipelines covering data preprocessing, annotation workflows, training, evaluation, and deployment. - Implement real-time object detection models (YOLO) for visual perception, supporting autonomous navigation and situational awareness systems. - Contribute to AI-driven environmental monitoring solutions, from raw data collection to cloud-based analytics and visualization.

Data Scientist Assistant

KPMG Acor Tax • Part-time

Sep 2023 - Jan 2025 • 1 yr 4 mos

Focused on automating workflows and optimizing data processes within large-scale business operations. Leveraged Microsoft Power Apps to enhance process efficiency. This experience deepened my understanding of Azure and large-scale data management for business solutions.

Data Science Assistant

Gubra • Part-time

Dec 2022 - Sep 2023 • 9 mos

Supported the company’s data-driven research initiatives by developing and implementing NLP models for effective patent tagging. This role involved designing custom information retrieval systems to streamline research relevance for patents, leveraging Python and NLP methods in a biotech context.