Successfully defended his PhD on November 17, 2017; For a detailed overview, check out his LinkedIn profile; For an exhaustive list of publications, see his Google Scholar profile; For a limited list of open-source software contributions, see his Github profile.
Research Experience
Interned twice at Google (Mountain View) in 2013, working on feature selection methods; Interned at Facebook in London with their Security Infrastructure team early 2014; Interned again at Google in New York with the Speech team during Summer 2014, working on language modeling; Interned at Apple in Cupertino during Summer 2016, working on language modeling; Interned with Microsoft Bing and Research in London early 2017, working on query formulation in the email domain; Interned with Snap Inc.'s search team during Summer 2017, working on semantic matching. Member of the Information and Language Processing Systems group at the University of Amsterdam from November 2014 to April 2018. Currently working at Apple as a research scientist/engineer on the speech recognition team.
Education
Obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in November 2017; MSc in Computer Science from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) with greatest distinction in July 2014; BSc in Computer Science (great distinction) from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) in July 2012.
Background
Research interests include Large-scale Data Processing, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Machine Learning, and Internet Security, among others.