Catherine Nelson

Catherine Nelson is the author of "Software Engineering for Data Scientists", a guide for data scientists who want to level up their coding skills, published by O'Reilly in May 2024. She is currently consulting for GenAI startups and mentoring data scientists. Previously, she was a Principal Data Scientist at SAP Concur. She has extensive experience deploying NLP models to production and evaluating ML systems, and she is also co-author of the book "Building Machine Learning Pipelines", published by O'Reilly in 2020. In her previous career as a geophysicist she studied ancient volcanoes and explored for oil in Greenland. Catherine has a PhD in geophysics from Durham University and a Masters of Earth Sciences from Oxford University.