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Thijs Snelleman

AI Researcher

Scientific Programmer and PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University. Thesis subject is Reproducibility in Artificial Intelligence. Supervised by Professor Holger Hoos (RWTH Aachen & Leiden University) and Professor Odd Erik Gundersen (NTNU, Trondheim).

Scientific Programmer | PhD Candidate

RWTH Aachen University - Aachen, Germany

Working as Scientific Programmer on various internal projects, such as Sparkle, and joint projects such as ConfigSpace.

As PhD Candidate, most of my work is currently focused on the automation of reproducibility of computational research.

CI/CD Algorithm Selection / Configuration LLM Pipeline Construction / Evaluation Project Management
2022 - 2023
National Police Workforce Planner

Data Scientist

Capgemini - Utrecht, The Netherlands

Data Scientist within the Insights & Data department, member of the Data Science and AI group.

Main project at the National Police, regarding personnel planning and optimisation. Responsible for data analysis, reporting tools and mobile app development for a 60k+ workforce.

Quintiq Requirements Engineering Scrum Logistics & Planning Optimisation

M.Sc. Computer Science

Leiden University - Leiden, The Netherlands

Master specialising in Artificial Intelligence (Grade: 8.2/10, Cum Laude). Electives in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Quantum AI, (Geometrical) Deep Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning. Thesis on automated detection of Coronary Arteries on CCTA scans using Geometrical Deep Learning, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC).

Jobs & Internships

AI Summer Intern
ABN AMRO - Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 2 Months
Machine Learning Intern
McDermott International, Ltd - Den Haag, The Netherlands | 3 Months
Student Assistant
Leiden University - Leiden, The Netherlands | 2021-2022
Data Annotator
Leiden University - Leiden, The Netherlands | 1 Month
Python PyTorch (Geometric) Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) AI Pipeline
2020 - 2020
Transaction Classification Engine

Junior Software Developer

Invers - Voorburg, The Netherlands

Junior Software Developer in maintaining and improving a live system focussed on classifying transactional data for mainly business customers (B2B).

C# .NET Framework Scrum
2015 - 2020

B.Sc. Computer Science

Leiden University - Leiden, The Netherlands

Thesis on algorithm comparison on a Dutch card game (“Boerenbridge”), an incomplete information card game, titled “Strategic Gambling in Diminishing Bridge”. Electives in Compiler Construction, Internet Law, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, and, Data Mining. Average grade: 7.0.

Jobs & Internships

Software Developer & Data Analyst
Strategy on Demand - Leiden, The Netherlands | 2018 - 2020
Teacher High School Computer Science
Oranje Nassau College - Zoetermeer, The Netherlands | 2017 - 2018
Software Development Internship
Accenture - Utrecht, The Netherlands | 3 Months
Teacher/Coach High School Graduation Exam
Lyceo - Leiden, The Netherlands | 2016 - 2018
C++ C Java Python JavaScript