Curriculum vitae
Career and education. 100+ peer-reviewed publications and 20+ issued US patents.
Experience
2026 — present
Chief AI Officer
European sovereign AI company (stealth)
2023 — 2026
Director, Artificial Intelligence
Helsing
2019 — 2023
Chief Scientist, Amazon SageMaker
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2017 — 2019
Principal Applied Scientist, Machine Learning
Amazon
2013 — 2017
Researcher & Applied Science Manager, Machine Learning
Amazon
2015: Served as the Technical Advisor for Machine Learning to Sebastian Gunningham, SVP Seller Services.
2009 — 2013
Research Scientist & Area Manager
Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE)
2006 — 2009
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Centre for Computational Statistics & Machine Learning, University College London
Appointments & fellowships
2018 — present
Fellow, Robust Machine Learning Programme
European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)
2017 — present
Associate Member, Department of Statistics
University of Oxford
2009 — 2015
Honorary Senior Research Associate
Centre for Computational Statistics & Machine Learning, University College London
Advisory & policy roles
2025 — present
Member, Board of Advisors
distil labs
2018 — 2019
Reserve member, High-Level Expert Group on AI
European Commission
Education
2007 — 2008
New Technology Ventures and Macroeconomics elective
London Business School
2001 — 2005
Ph.D. in Applied Sciences
Université catholique de Louvain
1996 — 2001
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
Université catholique de Louvain
1999 – 2000: Erasmus exchange programme at Delft University of Technology.
Languages
- English — native / bilingual
- French — native / bilingual
- Dutch — native / bilingual
- German — limited working
- Ancient Greek — elementary
Patents
Granted
- Concept shift detection and correction using probabilistic models and learned feature representations. US 12,423,960 B1 · Amazon Technologies · 2025
- Resource-efficient techniques for repeated hyper-parameter optimization. US 12,333,438 B1 · Amazon Technologies · 2025
- Global explanations of machine learning model predictions for input containing text attributes. US 11,977,836 B1 · Amazon Technologies · 2024
- Hyperparameter optimization using fairness constraints. US 11,481,659 B1 · Amazon Technologies · 2022
- Offline simulation system for optimizing content pages. US 10,977,149 B1 · Amazon Technologies · 2021
- Verifying item attributes using artificial intelligence. US 10,942,967 B1 · Amazon Technologies · 2021
- Maximizing quantifiable user interaction via modification of adjustable parameters. US 10,853,735 B1 · Amazon Technologies · 2020
- Optimized selection and delivery of content. US 10,242,381 B1 · Amazon Technologies · 2019
- System for configuring a robotic device for moving items. US 10,099,381 B1 · Amazon Technologies · 2018
- Verifying item attributes using artificial intelligence. US 9,892,133 B1 · Amazon Technologies · 2018
- System for configuring a robotic manipulator. US 9,731,420 B1 · Amazon Technologies · 2017
- Language model with structured penalty. US 9,684,650 B2 · Xerox Corporation · 2017
- Overlapping trace norms for multi-view learning. US 9,542,654 B2 · Xerox Corporation · 2017
- System for automating manipulation of items. US 9,381,645 B1 · Amazon Technologies · 2016
- Error prediction with partial feedback. US 9,069,736 B2 · Xerox Corporation · 2015
- Multi-task learning using Bayesian model with enforced sparsity and leveraging of task correlations. US 8,924,315 B2 · Xerox Corporation · 2014
- Robust Bayesian matrix factorization and recommender systems using same. US 8,880,439 B2 · Xerox Corporation · 2014
- System and method for providing mixed-initiative curation of information within a shared repository. US 8,656,286 B2 · Palo Alto Research Center · 2014
- Collapsed Gibbs sampler for sparse topic models and discrete matrix factorization. US 8,510,257 B2 · Xerox Corporation · 2013
- System and method for supporting targeted sharing and early curation of information. US 8,380,743 B2 · Palo Alto Research Center · 2013
Filed
- Three European patent applications with Helsing. 2025 · pending publication
- Hyperparameter optimization with operational constraints. US 2025/0013899 A1 · Amazon Technologies
- Continual machine learning in a provider network. EP 4591232 A2 · Amazon Technologies
- Probabilistic relational data analysis. EP 2738716 A2 · Xerox Corporation