I'm currently working on practical applications of AI and LLMs, especially in education and NLP research.

📚 Course Chatbots @ Tilburg University
Building course-specific chatbots that help students learn smarter. These bots use RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to pull info straight from lecture slides and study materials, then generate helpful answers — always with source citations.
🔒 Code lives on GitLab (private/internal)

🧠 MSc Data Science Thesis – Building a BERT Model & Exploring Gender Bias
Training a BERT model from scratch to study how gender bias arises in transformer architectures. My focus is on uncovering structural biases and proposing ways to mitigate them — part research, part experiment, all curiosity.
📁 Check it out here: biasintransformers

🏆 Msc Marketing Analytics Thesis - Improving recommendation systems
My first thesis explored improving recommendation systems using contextual embeddings (e.g., from ChatGPT) vs. traditional TF-IDF. Proud to say it earned the Best Thesis Award and a cum laude degree!

• Fine-tuning & pretraining transformer models
• Evaluation techniques for bias & fairness in NLP
• Scalable RAG pipelines for internal knowledge systems

Feel free to reach out!