Michael Mayer, PhD

Statistics | ML | AI

Greater Bern Area

About

• Scientific staff at Federal Office of Public Health • External lecturer at ETH Zürich and Uni Bern • 20+ years of experience in statistics and ML • Former jobs in insurance pricing, medical statistics, finance, consulting • Python | R | SQL • Git | Databricks | Fabric | Spark • Author of several Python and R packages: LightSHAP, missRanger, shapviz, kernelshap, confintr and more • ML Blog with Christian: https://lorentzen.ch/index.php/blog/ • Kaggle competition and notebook expert • Top 2% contributor on https://stats.stackexchange.com Publicly available lecture notes • Statistical Computing at University of Bern: https://github.com/mayer79/statistical_computing_material • Responsible ML with insurance applications at ETH Zurich: https://github.com/lorentzenchr/responsible_ml_material • Webinar available both in Python and R: https://github.com/mayer79/ml_lecture • Statistics for students of social and economic sciences at University of Bern: https://github.com/mayer79/Statistikskript_WiSo

Experience

  • Scientific Staff at Federal Office of Public Health FOPH
    Nov 2025 - Present · 9 mos

  • Lecturer at ETH Zürich
    Jul 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

    "Responsible Machine Learning with Insurance Applications" at the Math Department of the ETH Zurich. Jointly with Christian Lorentzen.

  • University of Bern (17 yrs 6 mos)
    • Lecturer
      Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Teaching "Statistical Computing" for master students in Statistics and Data Science, see details here: https://www.math-stat.unibe.ch/studium/lehrveranstaltungen/fruehjahr_2023/master_statistics_and_data_science/statistical_computing_fs_2023/index_ger.html

    • Lecturer
      Feb 2009 - Apr 2025 · 16 yrs 3 mos

      Lecturer for continuing studies in statistics (linear models)

    • Lecturer
      Jun 2010 - Jul 2013 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      Lecturer in introductory statistics for students of the economic and social sciences

  • Member at Actuarial Data Science in the Swiss Association of Actuaries
    Jun 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

  • Pricing Actuary at Die Mobiliar
    Aug 2018 - Oct 2025 · 7 yrs 3 mos

    Non-life pricing actuary (motor). Working with technologies including Python, Spark, Databricks, Azure, Git.