Biography
I’ve recently started my position at Qualcomm AI as a senior ML researcher on LLM reasoning and safety. I’ll soon be defending my PhD from the Amsterdam Machine Learning lab with Herke van Hoof and Max Welling. I’ve completed research internships at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Qualcomm AI Research.
Some of my interests include AI safety, everything Bayesian, effective altruism, and musical theatre.
I am concerned about the risks of transformative AI, and have spoken on this at the Dutch National AI Debate, Pakhuis de Zwijger, the Dutch Ministry of Defence, and the University of Amsterdam.
Download my resume (generally not as up-to-date as this website).
- AI safety
- LLM reasoning
- Musical theater
MSc in Theoretical Physics, 2016
University of Amsterdam
BSc in Physics and Astronomy, 2014
University of Amsterdam
Talks and media appearances
Publications
Supervision
Master AI projects
- 2021-2023: Active learning for imbalanced image classification, Philip Goto.
- 2020-2021: Uncertainty and Diversity Based Methods in Batch-Mode Active Learning, András Csirik.
- 2020-2021: Back to Basics: Deep Reinforcement Learning in Traffic Signal Control, Sierk Kanis. UrbComp'21 Best Paper Award runner-up.
- 2019-2020: Contrastively-shaped reward signals for curiosity-based exploration tasks, Nil Stolt Anso.
Bachelor AI projects
- 2019-2020: Forecasting shipped orders with long short-term memory recurrent neural networks, Roel van der Burght.
External projects
- 2019-2020: Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks for Learning Ground State Energies from a Simple Harmonic Potential Well, Chase van de Geijn.
Teaching
Reinforcement Learning 2019, 2020
I was teaching assistant for the Master AI Reinforcement Learning 2019 and 2020 course at the University of Amsterdam. This involved leading lab and theoretical homework sessions, as well as supervising group projects. Additionally, I taught a substitute lecture on Deep Q-Learning.
Leren (Introduction to Machine Learning) 2019, 2021
I was teaching assistant for the Bachelor AI Leren 2019 and 2021 course at the University of Amsterdam. This involved leading theoretical homework sessions, and assisting students in their lab work.