The A.I. Journey Creators & Guests

Jeroen Vlek is CTO of Anchormen. After obtaining his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Jeroen continued with a Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence. He completed his education with a thesis at the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin, Germany. Jeroen started his professional career in Game Development at Bigpoint in Hamburg, Germany. In 2015, he joined Anchormen as a Lead Data Engineer. In this role he was engaged in the design and construction of data processing architectures and managed teams during the implementation of data platforms. As a CTO, Jeroen is now responsible for the choice of technologies and methods that are being used at Anchormen. Technical skills: Data architecture, Spark, Scala, Python, Java, Hadoop, Linux

Ron Dotsch is Senior Data Scientist at Anchormen. Ron has a background in cognitive and social science, receiving his Psychology Master’s degree at University of Amsterdam, while following courses on Artificial Intelligence. After his PhD thesis on human biases in face perception at Nijmegen University, Ron was a research fellow at Princeton University in the Social Perception and Neuroscience lab and Assistant and Associate Professor at Utrecht University. In 2017 he switched to an industry career, starting as Senior Research Scientist at Philips Research. Ron joined Anchormen in 2019 as Senior Data Scientist and nowadays leads data science and AI projects. Ron has published over 50 scientific papers in international peer reviewed journals. His main data science skills are Machine learning, Deep learning, Multivariate statistics, Simulation, Python, R.

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