Jana Kludas is an expert on (gen)AI and machine learning specialized in consulting the public sector. She is a certified project manager with more than ten years of professional experience as a data science consultant. Methodologically, her work currently focuses on genAI chatbots, evaluation of AI/ML algorithms and maintainance of applications in production. Jana is also a long-standing member of the Prototype Fund (PTF) Jury, which supports open source software development and that is backed by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF).   

Prior to joining Technopolis Group, Jana worked for msg systems and Bundesdruckerei (Federal German Printing Office) in Berlin, consulting the public sector on how to apply AI for advancing the public digitalisation. To this end, she helped setting up several chatbots and evaluated their performance. During this time, she developed into a full-stack data scientist. Her work included performing ideation and scoping of use cases, data cleaning, data validation, selecting models, training them if needed, evaluation of the outcomes, buidling visualisations and dashboards, and finally putting prototypes into production.

Jana obtained her diploma in Electronic Engieering and Computer Science from the TU-Ilmenau in Germany. Thereafter, she pursued a PhD degree in Computer Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. For her postdoctoral studies in Bioinformatics, Jana worked at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. She is fluent in German, English and French and has basic survival knowledge of Finnish.