Education
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PhD in Machine Learning
Nov 2023 - TBD

Subject: Weight-based interpretability

Advisor: Jose M. Oramas

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Master in Artificial Intelligence
Sep 2021 - Jun 2023

Grade: Summa cum laude (87%)

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Honours Programme in Science
Sep 2019 - Aug 2021

Grade: Summa cum laude (85%)

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Bachelor of Computer Science
Sep 2018 - Jun 2021

Grade: Magna cum laude (83%)

Work Experience
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MATS Program
May 2024 - Sep 2024

Mechanistic interpretability stream under Neel Nanda and Lee Sharkey. Improved SAEs by adding a token-specific lookup table and worked on a new interpretability method for bilinear MLPs.

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Cuberdon Software Solutions
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022

Involved with the groundwork for a next-generation customer portal. Full-stack development with Vue and ASP.NET.

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Keysight Technologies
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

Research project to analyse and predict the power consumption of embedded devices.

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Antwerp University Hospital
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021

Internship linked to honours programme. Data measurement and analysis of food temperature for premature babies.

Languages
Dutch
Native
100 %
English
Strong Proficiency
90 %
French
Bilingual
80 %
Spanish
Basic
40 %
German
Basic
30 %
Hobbies

cycling

gaming

programming

music

chess

cooking

Programming
Python

6 years

Rust

4 years

C++

3 years

JavaScript

1 year

Traits

eager to learn

creative

quick-study

detail-oriented

Frameworks
Frontend
Yew
Vue
Svelte
Backend
Rocket
Axum
Flask
Deep Learning
PyTorch
Candle
Huggingface

Interpretability
TransformerLens
nnsight
Visualisation
Plotly
Seaborn
Misc
Bevy
W&B
Awards
6-time top 100 in Flemish Math Olympiad (2010 - 2018)
4-time semi-finalist in Flemish science olympiads (2016 - 2018)
2nd place on collaborative math olympiad: Wiskunnend Wiske (2018)
3rd place in the Belgian cyber security challenge (2023)