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Since 2008
Lecturer and Researcher in Natural language processing @ University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam
01 September 2023 -
Lecturing and researching methods for AI natural language processing and deep learning.
Data scientist - consultant @ Ordina
01 September 2022 - 28 February 2023
Consultant for NLP projects, building chatbots integrating natural language understanding.

Postdoctoral senior research fellow @ Ghent University
01 January 2021 - 31 December 2022
Researching event trigger detection and classification for news recommendation.

Linguistic engineer @ Kelly services for Google
01 January 2017 - 31 December 2017
Developing Dutch NLU components for Google Home.
Linguistic engineer @ Voxygen
01 January 2015 - 31 December 2017
Research and development of a Dutch text-to-speech system.
Linguistic engineer @ Nuance Communications
01 January 2009 - 31 December 2015
Research and development of an Arabic TTS system.

Computational Linguist @ University of Ghent
01 January 2008 - 31 December 2009
Research in speech recognition in the Department of information systems.
Opleiding
Since 1992
Data science/NLP courses @ Online Platforms
01 January 2023 -
Courses in AI, SQL, Tableau, Python for data science.
Natural Language Processing @ University of Grenoble Alpes
01 January 2017 - 11 December 2020
PhD focused on NL understanding for smart homes.
Computational Linguistics @ university of antwerp
01 January 2006 - 31 December 2008
Completed with Magna cum laude.

Pedagogical Competence @ CVO instituit
01 January 2001 - 31 December 2003
Certificated with Cum laude.
Postgraduate in Arabic Studies @ NIAASC
01 January 1996 - 31 December 1997
Completed with Magna Cum laude.
Arabic Studies @ Catholic University of Louvain
01 January 1992 - 31 December 1996
Completed with Cum laude.
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