Published research on the relationship between community detection methods and hyperspherical geometry; analyzed popular validation measures for machine learning tasks, leading to recommendations, with papers published at ICML2021 and NeurIPS2021; contributed to epidemiological modeling during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in a publication in JRSI.
Research Experience
Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at CWI Amsterdam, working on optimizing under uncertainty, particularly robustifying Gradient Descent to adversarial gradient perturbations; also a Postdoctoral Researcher at Toronto Metropolitan University, studying asynchronous majority dynamics on random graphs under the supervision of Pawel Pralat.
Education
PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology (2020-2024), supervised by Remco van der Hofstad and Nelly Litvak, focusing on community detection in random graphs.
Background
Research interests include (distributionally) robust optimization, asynchronous majority dynamics, community detection, and validating validation measures. Specializes in community detection within complex networks and optimizing under uncertainty.
Miscellany
Wrote blogs for KNAW and NEMO Kennislink as part of Faces of Science, offering insights into the lives and work of young scientists; developed interactive visualizations to explain network theory to non-mathematicians.