CV
Experience
Senior ML Researcher
Qualcomm AI
Sept 2024 – Present · Amsterdam
Research Intern
Qualcomm AI
May 2023 – Sept 2023 · Amsterdam
Research Intern
Facebook AI Research (FAIR)
June 2021 – Oct 2021 · Montreal (remote)
PhD Student
AMLab, University of Amsterdam
Mar 2019 – May 2024 · Amsterdam
Machine Learning Engineer
BrainCreators
Sept 2017 – Feb 2019 · Amsterdam
Education
Volunteering & Organizing
Chair of the board
Amsterdams Studentenprojectkoor (ASPK)
July 2024 – July 2025
Advisory board member
AI Safety Amsterdam
Sept 2023 – Present
Guide and organiser
Effective Altruism Meditation
Oct 2020 – May 2021
Mentor
Inclusive AI
May 2019 – May 2024
Board member
Inclusive AI
May 2019 – Oct 2021
Interim board member
ASPK
Nov 2018 – Feb 2019
Chair of activities committee
ASPK
Oct 2018 – Jan 2024
Co-founder and organiser
LessWrong Netherlands meetup
July 2016 – July 2018
Co-founder and organiser
Effective Altruism Amsterdam
March 2016 – Present
Community organiser
Effective Altruism Netherlands
May 2016 – July 2017
Thesis Supervision
Active learning for imbalanced image classification
Uncertainty and Diversity Based Methods in Batch-Mode Active Learning
Back to Basics: Deep Reinforcement Learning in Traffic Signal Control — UrbComp'21 Best Paper Award runner-up
Contrastively-shaped reward signals for curiosity-based exploration tasks
Forecasting shipped orders with LSTM
Bayesian CNNs for Ground State Energies
Teaching
Reinforcement Learning
Teaching Assistant · University of Amsterdam · 2019, 2020
Taught substitute lecture on Deep Q-Learning.
Leren (Introduction to Machine Learning)
Teaching Assistant · University of Amsterdam · 2019, 2021