Publications

(2014). ORTEC Pallet and Load Building. Master's Thesis, Business Analytics.

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(2013). Automation of the SET Card Game. Research Paper, Business Analytics.

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Talks

Layman's talk at my PhD defence

Brief introduction to techniques of machine learning and optimization.

Talk about Deep Policy Dynamic Programming at CPAIOR 2022.

Invited talk at Microsoft Research/Quantum Optimization seminar about vehicle routing problems.

Projects

EURO Meets NeurIPS 2022 Vehicle Routing Competition

I was the initiator and lead organizer of the EURO Meets NeurIPS 2022 Vehicle Routing Competition which brought together researchers from the Operations Research (OR) and Machine Learning (ML) community to solve a static and dynamic variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW).

IlikeCLR

IlikeCLR allows to browse and like papers from ICLR 2020 to get instant (maximum ‘like’-lihood) recommendations.

SET® Finder

SET® Finder is an Android/iOS app that uses TensorFlow to run a Deep Neural Network on-device to find SETs in the SET® card game.

Teaching

SIKS PhD Course 2022 “Machine Learning & Optimization”

At the SIKS PhD Course “Machine Learning & Optimization”", I have given the overall introduction, a lecture on machine learning & optimization and a practical assignment on vehicle routing.

ORTEC Education Factory 2020 - now

I regularly give internal trainings at the ORTEC Education Factory on the topics of machine learning, deep (reinforcement) learning and competitive programming.

Reinforcement Learning 2019

I have been a Teaching Assistant for Reinforcement Learning 2019 at the University of Amsterdam, for the lab / homework sessions and supervision of group projects. I also gave a guest lecture on Monte Carlo Tree Search and AlphaGo.

Reinforcement Learning 2018

I have been a Teaching Assistant for the new Reinforcement Learning 2018 course at University of Amsterdam. I developed the computer labs and supervised homework and lab sessions. Additionally I gave a guest lecture about Monte Carlo Tree Search and AlphaGo.

Machine Learning 2018

I have been a Teaching Assistant for the computer labs for Machine Learning 2 in 2018.