I was born on 24 June 1978
in Rotterdam.
I was born on 24 June 1978
in Rotterdam.
From 1982 till 1990 I did primary school, after which I entered the secondary school
'Thorbecke'. In 1995 I acquired my HAVO
certificate there, and in 1997 my VWO certificate.
In September 1997, I started my studies at the University of Leiden. Initially I studied both
computer science and mathematics; of both of them I finished the foundation course in 1999.
After that I decided to continue the mathematics course, and acquired my M.Sc. in 2005.
For my final project I have studied the Sound Separation problem,
and the resulting thesis and examples can be found
elsewhere on this page.
From September 2002 to January 2003 I have studied in Bath, which is in
England.
In the summer of 2005,
I have participated in the International Summer School of
Shandong University in
China.
Since 2005, I have lived and worked in Germany.
I speak three languages fluently: Dutch, English and German. In addition, since 2006, I have been taking courses in Chinese at both the Volkshochschule and the Confucius Institute.
In the summer of 1997,
I worked for Total Mail Service Rotterdam,
where I took care of
the computer service.
In 1999 and 2001,
I taught a calculus class at the University of Leiden.
I have also taught at the
exam course from 2002 to 2005.
Currently,
I am working at the
Fraunhofer Instititute of Integrated Circuits in
Germany.
Computer programming has been a hobby of mine for a very long time. When I was nine years old, I learnt programming in BASIC. After that time, many programming languages followed, such as Pascal (+Delphi), 8086 Assembly language, C++ (with Borland's OWL), C#, Java and JavaScript.
Besides programming, I like playing on my synthesizer and listening to music (both rock and classical), reading (mainly literature written in English and German), photography, cycling, jiu jitsu, cooking, woodworking and travelling.
This was a very brief summery of me. If you have something that might interest me, mail me. Cheers!