This is a selection of my resume.

Education

• Bachelor Computer Science (2005-2008)
  Twente University, The Netherlands
  Cum laude
  Bachelorthesis: WikiTranslate: Query Translation for Cross-lingual Information Retrieval using only Wikipedia
• Master Applied Computing Science (2008-2009)
  Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  Not finished, left to attend CMU
• Master Language Technologies, (2009-present)
  Carnegie Mellon University

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

• 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 social networks.
• SoNaR (2009)
  Twente University
  Conversion of newspaper documents for the Dutch SoNaR project, for the creation of a Dutch text corpus.
• MESH (2008)
  Twente University
  Developed a query translator for the European project MESH to support cross lingual information retrieval. Languages involved were English, German and Spanish.
• SEMAINE (2008)
  Twente University
  Assisting research of the European SEMAINE project by creating emotions for the iCat.

Other activities

• Jr. developer, Ilocal (2009)
  Developer at a company who offers a search engine for local search in the Netherlands.
• Quality assurance, Twente University (2006 - 2008)
  Organization of evaluations of courses attended by Computer Science students.
• Student assistant databases course, Twente University (2007)
  Tutoring students at practical assignments of the course databases.