What do you do at Virtusize?

Hi. My name is Inga Silkworth, and I’m the Head of Data Science. I joined Virtusize in 2019, and have been happily sifting through its data ever since.

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Please tell us about your background and how you ended up at Virtusize ?

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronomer. However, in college instead of studying the largest objects in the universe I ended up studying the smallest ones - elementary particles. For five years I analyzed terabytes of proton collision data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. After I got my Ph.D., I became a data scientist in New York City at an ad tech company. Three years later I moved to Tokyo and joined the team at Virtusize.

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What do you like most about working at Virtusize?

I think I like the variety of data the most. It never gets boring, because there are so many different questions that can be asked. It’s also fun that I’m not limited by any specific tools or algorithms that I have to use. I can pick and choose whatever is best for the situation. Having an amazing team and a super cozy office also doesn’t hurt.

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What are you excited about in the next year ?

I’m most excited about improving and adding onto our computer vision capabilities. I’ll be very happy once we can use images and text to identify all kinds of attributes about clothing, and use that information for size, item, and style recommendations.

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What’s most important to you in building your team ?

It is important to have people who are good at working both independently and as a team. But even more important is having teammates who enjoy what they’re doing and who thrive in an atmosphere of learning and knowledge sharing. 

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Message to future colleague

If you would like to work with a diverse and fun group of people, come join us! The team and the company have grown so much since I started working here, and I can’t wait to see where the next years bring us.