Philipp Hunziker

Quantitative Researcher

Google

Biography

I’m a Quantitative UX Researcher at Google (and YouTube), where I develop experiment infrastructure, analyze logs data, and do some statistical programming.

Prior to my current role, I was a Postdoc at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute/Lazerlab. I was also a Postdoctoral Affiliate at Harvard University’s IQSS. I hold a PhD from ETH Zurich, where I was part of the ICR group, as well as the ETH Risk Center.

Interests

R Programming
Bayesian Optimization
Geospatial Machine Learning

Education

PhD in Political Science, 2015

ETH Zurich

Recent Posts

Philipp Hunziker

Sep 16, 2019 16 min read

Modeling Swiss Toponyms with NLP

In this post I teach a neural network the linguistic and geographical patterns of Swiss place names (‘toponyms’). The resulting model is able to generate new place names for a given location, predict the most likely location of an arbitrary (and potentially fictional) place name, and allows us to explore the geographic patterns underlying the distribution of Swiss place names.

Dec 8, 2018 5 min read ubuntu

Run a Headless Mopidy Spotify Server on Ubuntu 18.04

I just spent way too long trying to set up a Mopidy audio server on my personal headless Linux machine, so I thought I might as well write down what I learned for posterity.