
Björn Thalén
Data Scientist, Västtrafik
Session
Talk
Alert, Your Trip Will Be Crowded: Crowding Prediction at Västtrafik
Thursday 7 April 2022, 15:30–15:55
Biography
Björn Thalén is a data science consultant at B3Indes, a company helping organizations to create value from data. At one of his clients, Västtrafik, Björn has been the lead developer for an AI-model for crowd predictions. His academic background is in applied mathematics and history of science. In his professional life he has focused on mathematical optimization and transportation planning systems, helping some of the world’s leading transportation companies to optimize their planning. Björn is a coordinator for EURO Practitioners' Forum, a European network of industry mathematicians. He got his M.Sc at Linköping University and lives in Gothenburg since 2010.