Thomas Van Dongen

Experience

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  IChoice4U BV

  Dec 2017 - May 2019

  Data Scientist

  Worked as a data scientist/research assistant on data from Pscribe.

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  Gronalytica

  Jun 2019 - May 2021

  Co-founder

  Developed a platform for automatic grading of pharmaceutical exams at pharmagrader.com. Funded by SNN.

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  Slimmer AI

  May 2021 - Oct 2023

  Machine Learning Engineer

  Worked as a machine learning engineer and tech lead of the recommenders team, developing ML products in the scientific domain.

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  Springer Nature

  Oct 2023 - now

  Leading a team of engineers to build AI-driven solutions that improve scientific publishing.For over 180 years Springer Nature has been advancing discovery by providing the best possible service to the whole research community. We help researchers uncover new ideas, make sure all the research we publish is significant, robust and stands up to objective scrutiny, that it reaches all relevant audiences in the best possible format, and can be discovered, accessed, used, re-used and shared. The Slimmer AI science division was acquired by Springer Nature after successfully working on ML products together for a number of years. I continued my role as technical lead of the recommenders team.

  • Head of AI Engineering

    Dec 2024 - now

  • Senior Machine Learning Engineer

    Oct 2023 - Dec 2024
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  The Minish Lab

  Sept 2024 - now

  Co-founder

  Developing open source ML software with a focus on efficiency and eco-friendly models. Our GitHub org: https://github.com/MinishLab.We are currently working on the following open source projects:- Model2Vec: Fast State-of-the-Art Static Embeddings- Vicinity: Lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Backends- SemHash: Fast Semantic Text Deduplication- Potion models: State-of-the-art Static Embedding Models