Educational Background | |
2008 – 2011 | Master Artificial Intelligence, “Autonomous Perceptive Systems” track. |
| University of Groningen, the Netherlands. |
| Exam passed with honors (cum laude). |
| Master thesis: “Interaction between Face Detection and Learning Tracking Systems for Autonomous Robots” (2011). |
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2005 – 2008 | Bachelor Artificial Intelligence. |
| University of Groningen, the Netherlands. |
| Exam passed with honors (cum laude). |
| Bachelor Thesis: “Using Different Methods to Direct a Robot's Attention” (2008). |
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1999 – 2005 | Bilingual VWO (pre-university secondary education). |
| Van der Capellen S.G, Zwolle, the Netherlands. |
| Exam passed. Furthermore, I passed the 'English A2 Higher Level' exam of the International Baccalaureate in 2005. |
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Previous Employment and Teaching | |
2011 | Teaching assistant “Multi-agent systems” master course. |
| University of Groningen, the Netherlands. |
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2010-2011 | Teaching assistant “Robotics” master course. |
| University of Groningen, the Netherlands. |
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2010 | Research internship. |
| Robot Cognition Laboratory, INSERM U846, Lyon, France. |
| At INSERM I did research as part of my master thesis on robot vision. I was also a member of the “Radical Dudes” RoboCup@Home team, which participated in the international RoboCup competitions with a NAO robot. |
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2008-2009 | Teaching assistant in “Introduction to Logic” and “Language and Speech technology” courses. |
| University of Groningen, the Netherlands. |
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Other Interests | |
2010-2011 | Member of RoboCup-team “BORG”, participating in the RoboCup@Home league of the international RoboCup competitions. These competitions focus on benchmarking abilities of domestic service robots in realistic, non-standardized environments. |
2008 – 2010 | Team leader RoboCup-team “the little green BATS“. This was the first RoboCup team from Groningen, participating in the 3D-soccer simulation league using simulated NAO robots. |