Dr. Leon Peeters
Employee, Head of Data Intelligence, JobCloud AG
Zurich, Switzerland
Timeline
Professional experience for Leon Peeters
Current , since Sep 2018
Head of Data Intelligence
JobCloud AG
3 years and 11 months, Sep 2014 - Jul 2018
Senior Data Scientist
eBay Inc
4 years and 4 months, Apr 2009 - Jul 2013
Research Associate
IMC Trading Zug
Research on market making Forex, equities, and index futures in a high-frequency/low-latency environment. Research into new trading strategies, optimization of trading strategy parameters, and development of tools to support said research. Liaison between traders and researchers/developers, teaching role towards traders.
1 year and 10 months, May 2007 - Feb 2009
Operations research & Software engineer
Infrastructure Management Consultants GmbH
Operations research expert for optimizing civil infrastructure maintenance projects to (bridges, galleries, tunnels, highways). Keywords: Markov chains and decision processes, statistical estimation of transition probabilities under imperfect information, linear & integer programming, dynamic programming. Software engineer for implementing the resulting algorithms.
3 years and 11 months, Jun 2003 - Apr 2007
Post-doctoral researcher
ETH-Zurich, Switzerland
Post-doctoral researcher at the Algorithms, Data Structures, and Applications group of Prof Dr Peter Widmayer. Research focus on railway optimization, with an emphasis on delay management. Taught the courses “Algorithmic Game Theory” and “Web Algorithms”.
Educational background for Leon Peeters
5 years and 4 months, Jan 1998 - Apr 2003
Operations Research
Rotterdam School of Management
Ph.D. thesis “Cyclic Railway Timetable Optimization”, graduate courses on Combinatorial Optimization, Stochastic Operations Research, Randomized Algorithms and Stochastic Programming, Convex Optimization, Operations Research and Finance.
5 years and 3 months, Aug 1992 - Oct 1997
Econometrics
Maastricht University
Specialization Operations Research, Optimization, Network Models, Mixed Integer Programming. M.Sc. thesis “Optimization for the Backbone of a GSM network” (in Dutch). Teaching assistant for mathematics courses for Business and Economics students.
Languages
English
Fluent
German
Fluent
Dutch
First language