Education
- PhD (2012-)
University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Master Language Technologies (2009-2011)
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Bachelor Computer Science (2005-2008)
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Cum laude
Bachelorthesis: WikiTranslate: Query Translation for
Cross-lingual Information Retrieval using only Wikipedia
Awards & grants
- Fulbright scholarship (2009)
Scholarship to support my Master in the US funded by The Netherland America Foundation
- Echo bèta techniek award (2007)
Awarded a summer course at the University of California, Los Angeles
Followed a course linguistics in the summer of 2007.
Projects
- FACT (2012-)
University of Twente/Meertens Institute
Text analysis (classification, clustering) of folktales.
- TINPOT (2012-)
Meertens Institute
Language use on Twitter.
- SUPPORT (2011)
Carnegie Mellon University
Analyzing language in an online breast cancer community.
- DesignWebs (2010)
Carnegie Mellon University
Developed a program for document visualization and navigation using topic modelling methods.
- LTfLL (2009)
Utrecht University
Different tasks for the European LTfLL (Language Technologies for Lifelong Learning) project, such as
carrying out experiments, literature review and writing scenario's. Focus was automatic ontology enrichment by analyzing tags from Delicious.
- SoNaR (2009)
University of Twente
Conversion of newspaper documents for the Dutch SoNaR project, for the creation of a Dutch text
corpus.
- MESH (2008)
University of Twente
Developed a query translator for the European project MESH to support
cross lingual information retrieval. Languages involved were English, German and Spanish.
- SEMAINE (2008)
University of Twente
Assisting research of the European SEMAINE project by creating emotions for the iCat.
Internships
- Software Engineer Intern, Facebook, Palo Alto, USA (Aug-Nov 2011)
Intern in the growth team working on internationalization.
Other activities
- Jr. developer, Ilocal (2009)
Developer at a company that offers a search engine for local search in the Netherlands.
- Quality assurance, Twente University (2006 - 2008)
Organization of Computer Science course evaluations.
- Student assistant databases course, Twente University (2007)
Assisting students during practical assignments of the databases course.
