Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium
I am the CTO and co-founder at accurat.ai. We offer AI-powered market research to improve retail and media strategies. Before, I worked as Lead Data Scientist at Realo. Between July and September 2016, I did a Research Internship at the Yahoo! Advertising Science team in London. I obtained my PhD degree in 2016 which focused on information retrieval, machine learning and big data mining.
AI-powered market research
Lead Data Scientist at Realo, a fast growing real estate startup in Europe.
Joining the Advertising Sciences team at Yahoo. The focus of my internship was to optimize mobile advertising by targeting the right audience during major events (e.g. major sport events, Christmas, political elections). I analyzed billions of records with big data technologies such as PIG, HIVE and Hadoop.
My PhD research focused on information retrieval, machine learning and big data mining. Specifically I developed scalable strategies to extract structured place, event and sentiment information from social media. In addition, I constructed methodologies to model and predict the popularity of online news. I was funded by a competitive PhD grant of the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT/VLAIO).
Providence optimizes online news publication strategies by anticipating the predicted viral nature of news on social media. It enables a virality-driven production flow in commercial online news environments. Development: I developed a large-scale monitoring and analysis framework to track the popularity of news items and their interactions on social media in real-time. Research: I constructed novel methodologies which predict the news consumption and news sharing behavior by users.