Gerben De Vries

Software Engineering and AI @ Neon and Open Education Foundation

Hilversum, North Holland, Netherlands

About

I am Computer Scientist in Artificial Intelligence, specialized in Machine Learning. I like bursting the 'AI hype bubble' and applying these cool techniques to problems responsibly, and when it makes sense, not just for the sake of using the latest shiny toy. 😊

Experience

  • AI Developer at Open Education Foundation
    Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

  • AI Developer at Neon (Nederlands Onderwijsinstituut)
    Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

  • (Senior) Research Engineer at Wizenoze
    Oct 2015 - Feb 2025 · 9 yrs 5 mos

    AI Research Engineer working on various AI techniques for Ed-Tech: * Tutors and Quiz generation using LLMs * BERT based embedding models for semantic search * (RDF based) Knowledge graphs to represent and reason about curriculums * Neural network based classifiers to predict subjects, grades and readability levels Written (and got funded) research proposals for AI related projects around search technology and curriculum classification.

  • University of Amsterdam (8 yrs)
    • Post Doc
      Oct 2011 - Sep 2015 · 4 yrs

      Work-package leader in the COMMIT/ Data2Semantics project. Responsible for determining the research direction, coordinating the scientific programming and peforming research on Machine Learning and Data Mining techniques for Linked Data and the Semantic Web. I also (co)taught and coordinated the Data Mining course for the Information Science Bachelor.

    • PhD Student
      Oct 2007 - Sep 2011 · 4 yrs

      Research on Machine Learning methods for Vessel Trajectory data, as part of the POSEIDON project. Clustering trajectories into groups of similar behavior, predicting the vessel type of a trajectory and discovering outliers, such as speeding vessels and illegal fishing activities.

  • Teaching Assistent at University of Amsterdam
    Jan 2002 - Dec 2006 · 5 yrs

    Teaching classes, assisting labs and grading homework for various courses in the Artificial Intelligence BSc curriculum, including: Data Mining, Databases, Data Structures, Introduction to Logic and Computational Logic.