I am scientist and entrepreneur. My scientific work focusses on statistical methods for personalization (in e.g., healthcare and marketing), machine learning, and data science. I have successfully founded, grown, and sold companies, and I have attracted over 3.5 Million in funding. I have developed several popular software packages and I am the author of 3 books, and over 60 scientific publications.
I received my Ph.D. with honors form the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Next, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Aalto school of Economics, Aalto, Finland. Afterwards, I worked for 2 years as an assistant professor of Statistics and Research Methods at the University of Tilburg. I have previously (during my Ph.D. work) worked as a research scientist at Philips Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands and as a distinguished visiting scholar at the CHIMe lab of Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA. I have also worked as an assistant professor in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Radboud University Nijmegen where I was the track leader of a master track called “Web and Language”. I (amongst other courses) was responsible for a course on AI techniques on the web called “AI at the Webscale”.
Currently, I am a Professor of Data Science & Health, with a focus on data-driven methods for treatment personalization in healthcare, at JADS and the University of Tilburg. I also hold an appointment as an assistant professor in Statistics and Research Methods at Tilburg University. You can find the website of the research lab that I run right here: www.nth-iteration.com.
At the end of 2012, my first book called “Digitale Verleiding” (since 2015 also available in English here
