Dr. Stijn Vermeeren
Angestellt, Project Lead Data Science, Bundesamt für Landestopografie swisstopo
Zürich, Switzerland
About me
I started a new role as Project Lead Data Science at swisstopo in July 2023, after a 10 month sabbatical to travel Europe and Latin America. I am a PhD in mathematics with nine years of professional experience in data science at the Swiss company Starmind, where I built up all the AI technology almost from scratch, as well as recruiting and mentoring a total of ten other data scientists. I excel at managing and breaking down complexity in software systems and data pipelines, and at explaining complicated concepts to a wider audience. I love challenging mathematical problems, logical puzzles, learning foreign languages, hiking and skiing in the mountains, and strategical board game such as go and chess.
Timeline
Professional experience for Stijn Vermeeren
Current 3 months, since Jul 2023
Project Lead Data Science
Bundesamt für Landestopografie swisstopo
9 years and 3 months, Jun 2013 - Aug 2022
Head of AI
Starmind
Started as the only full-time data scientist for a 3-year old start-up, grew into leading a team of eight other data scientists in a successful scale-up. Key topics: data science, machine learning, natural language processing, team lead, recruitment, owner of several micro-services programmed in Scala and Python.
Educational background for Stijn Vermeeren
3 years and 8 months, Oct 2009 - May 2013
Mathematics
University of Leeds
9 months, Oct 2008 - Jun 2009
Mathematics
University of Cambridge
2 years and 11 months, Sep 2005 - Jul 2008
Mathematics
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Languages
English
Fluent
Dutch
First language
German
Fluent
French
Intermediate
Italian
Intermediate
Spanish
Intermediate
Norwegian
Basic
Swedish
Basic
Danish
Basic