Joanna Symonowicz

Quant | Cambridge PhD

Poland

About

Researcher with 10 years of experience. 📱 Created the first real-time analog ANN image classifier and encoder, published in Nature 579, 62–66 (2020). 💻 Designed, built, and maintained a new optoelectronic lab at the University of Cambridge, including its software infrastructure (hardware integration, measurement automation, data analysis, UI, Git CI/CD). 🔆 Developed a fault detection method for solar cell farms, utilizing over 5 billion PV/weather records.

Experience

  • Market Risk Quant at Standard Chartered
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Blue Book Trainee at European Commission
    Mar 2024 - Jun 2024 · 4 mos

    * Project / stakeholders management & QA of Earth's climate digital twin (data lake platform). * Drafting Horizon Europe grant calls for AI infrastructure.

  • Researcher at University of Cambridge
    Oct 2019 - Feb 2024 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    * Created & maintained new optoelectronic lab along with its software infrastructure (Python libraries for hardware operation, measurement automation, data analysis, GUIs + Git CI/CD) * Development of energy-efficient hardware for AI * Teacher for experimental methods with statistical analysis * Reviewer for Nature Electronics

  • Research Assistant at Technische Universität Wien
    Sep 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr

    * Created the first artificial neural network image sensor (Nature 579 (7797), 62-66) * Automatized research and data analysis with self-made Python libraries

  • Software Developer at Acturis Limited
    Apr 2018 - Jul 2018 · 4 mos

    Front-end development of application for insurance brokers using HTML/CSS, data queries with SQL, APIs with XML, version control in Git.