Career break
Parental leave
Darya Shcherbakova
Data scientist / ML engineer with a PhD in biomedical engineering. Led data science and product at AICON.construction, did computer-vision research at Balloon Inc., and started out with ultrasound elastography and FEA at Ghent University. Open to FEA, biomedical, and applied data / ML roles. San Francisco Bay Area.
Experience
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Jun 2024 - Present Current -
Dec 2021 - Jun 2024 · 2.5 years Head of Data Science / Product Manager
AICON.construction Boston, MA
AI-powered construction-site analytics. Led data science and was PM for the flagship product.
- Product manager for the flagship analytics product. Owned roadmap and shipping cycles across data science, engineering, and design.
- Led a research project across three universities, coordinating cross-institution collaboration to deliver a POC for advanced 3D-model-to-camera-image registration.
- Bridged research and product. Translated computer-vision research output into deployable features for the edge-cloud pipeline serving construction sites.
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2020 - 2021 · 1 year Computer Vision / Product
Balloon Inc. Ghent, Belgium
Construction-tech product studio. Combined data science, product design, and project management.
- Built computer-vision models for construction-tech products.
- Contributed to the spin-off that became AICON, including the first generation of its construction-site CV models.
Computer VisionPythonProduct -
Sep 2012 - Jan 2018 · 5+ years PhD Researcher — Medical Ultrasound
Ghent University Ghent, Belgium
PhD on shear-wave elastography in arteries. Experimental ultrasound, finite-element modelling, and wave-physics derivations in anisotropic media. Awarded a 4-year FWO PhD Scholarship.
- FEA in Abaqus with Fortran user subroutines for OpenMP / MPI HPC jobs.
- Matlab GUIs and pipelines for ultrasound image processing and post-processing automation.
- Designed experimental protocols and conducted mechanical and ultrasound experiments on custom PVA phantoms and equine carotid arteries.
- Supervised the "Medical Image to Computer Model" course and a Master's thesis student.
AbaqusFortranMatlabFEAUltrasoundHPC
Skills & Education
PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Ghent University, 2018 · M.Sc. CEMACUBE Erasmus Mundus (Ghent + RWTH Aachen), great distinction, 2012 · B.Sc. Bauman Moscow State Technical University (88/100), 2010.
Data Science / ML
Python
PyTorch
TensorFlow
OpenCV
- Computer Vision
- 3D Registration
Engineering / FEA
- Abaqus
- Fluent
- CalculiX
Matlab
- MathCAD
Imaging & Modelling
- Ultrasound signal processing
- Segmentation (Mimics, vmtk)
- AutoCAD
- Kompas 3D
HPC & Tooling
- OpenMP / MPI
- HPC clusters
Git
Linux / Unix
AWS
Other Languages
C / C++ / C++/CLI
- Fortran
- Delphi
Spoken
- Russian — native
- English — fluent
- Dutch — fluent
- German — B1
- French — B1
Selected Publications
Full list on Google Scholar.
Tissue anisotropy in shear-wave elastography
PMB · 2017Shcherbakova D. et al. A finite element model to study the effect of tissue anisotropy on ex vivo arterial shear wave elastography measurements.
Doppler pitfalls in small-animal imaging
UMB · 2016Swillens A., Shcherbakova D., Trachet B., Segers P. Pitfalls of Doppler measurements for arterial blood flow quantification in small animal research.
Shear-wave elastography in viscoelastic media
IEEE TUFFC · 2015Caenen A., Shcherbakova D. et al. A versatile and experimentally validated finite element model to assess the accuracy of shear wave elastography in a bounded viscoelastic medium.
Supersonic shear-wave imaging — horse aorta
Adv. Mech. Eng. · 2014Shcherbakova D. et al. Supersonic shear wave imaging to assess arterial nonlinear behavior and anisotropy: ex vivo testing of the horse aorta.