Curriculum Vitae

Education

• PhD in Computer Science (Data Mining) ADReM research group, University of Antwerp, 2006–2011
• Master (Licentiate) in Mathematics, option Computer Science, University of Antwerp, 2001–2006
• Wetenschappen-Wiskunde (Sciences-Mathematics), St. Michielscollege Schoten, 1999–2001
• Moderne Talen-Wiskunde (Modern Languages-Mathematics), St. Cordula Instituut Schoten, 1995–1999

Experience

• Reviewer and external reviewer for several international academic journals and conferences
• Teaching: Introduction to Data Mining (Bachelor course), 2011
• Teaching assistant: XML Databases (Bachelor course), 2007–2011
• Registration, local organization and webmaster of ECML PKDD 2008, Antwerp, Belgium

Languages

• Dutch (native speaker)
• English (fluent)
• Spanish (upper intermediate)
• French (intermediate)
• German (basic)

Programming

• Java
• Spring
• Hibernate, SQL
• C/C++
• Python
• Swift
• LaTeX
• Other: Photoshop, XML, HTML/CSS, PHP, …

Awards and Grants

• Best Student Paper Award, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2011
• PhD Grant, Agency for Innovation through Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT Vlaanderen), 2008–2011
• Travel grant, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), 2010