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Karina Rojas

Data Scientist | Astrophysicist
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Karina Rojas
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About Me

I am a Chilean researcher living in Switzerland holding a resident permit B with right to work. I have 8+ years of experience in topics that include data science, data analysis, Python, SQL, machine and deep learning.
I am LSST Data Science Fellowship alumni, I won Hack’n’Lead 2023 and a Euclid STAR Prize in 2025.
I am analytical, structured, and a curious team player with a passion for learning and solving complex problems.

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Experience

FHNW, Switzerland

Postdoc

Lead a project to integrate and validate a comprehensive catalogue from published and new high-quality images, designing the full data workflow and expert annotation process.
Updated and maintained data simulation pipelines to enable discovery in complex image datasets.
Supervised development of machine learning models for automated image classification, including advanced architectures like vision transformers.

University of Portsmouth, UK

Fellow researcher

Designed, analyzed, and visualized large datasets derived from complex database queries.
Led an experiment evaluating human and AI performance in image classification, managing data, creating visualizations, and contributing to publication.
Applied neural networks to advance image processing tasks.

EPFL, Switzerland

Postdoc

Developed image classification models using convolutional neural networks.
Contributed to creating a visualization tool to interpret model outputs.
Organized a weekly research colloquium and supervised Master’s thesis and student projects.

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Publications

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Email: karina.rojasolate@gmail.com