I hold an MSc in Operations Research from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where I specialized in mathematical optimization and machine learning (ML).

Below is some cool stuff I have worked on both academically and professionally:

• Built Mediaverzoek.nlARCHIVED (Dutch for “media request”), that let real estate agents get listing-ready photos from home sellers using AI to direct them through the shoot. Think of it as a payment request, but for photos instead of euros.
• Built a tool that used AI agents to find treaty rates and Dijkstra's algorithm to give multinationals a starting point for lowering their tax burden (read: save billions of dollars) on international transactions: TreatyHopperARCHIVED (blog post).
• Developed a new method for routing optical waveguides on photonic chips using Bézier curves, resulting in more compact and efficient chip designs.
• Founded a startup, De Bezwaarfabriek (Dutch for “the appeals factory”), specializing in appealing traffic fines using fine-tuned large language models. Featured in Dutch media including De Telegraaf and NL Times, and on the Legal Tech Map.
• Built an audio recognition system based on Shazam's fingerprinting algorithm to identify ads in audio streams.
• Simulated multiple logistics warehouses from scratch to optimize item placement and streamline order picking for a company in logistics (approx. €2.4B group revenue) and e-commerce (approx. €520M revenue).
• Applied adaptive large neighborhood search to solve the multi-trip electric vehicle routing problem with parcel lockers. Computations were performed on the Hábrók high-performance computing cluster at the University of Groningen.
• At age 17, developed a proof of concept for a DNA-based digital storage system, where each base (A, C, G, T) represented a pair of bits (00, 01, 10, 11). Synthesized multiple oligonucleotides and sequenced them to verify the concept.
• At age 15, built a cluster computer using Raspberry Pis.
• And many more.

I work as an AI Engineer at TBI, one of the largest construction companies in the Netherlands.

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