Search Engines Amsterdam Logo

I created a logo for SEA: Search Engines Amsterdam, a monthly meetup where industry & academia talks about search engines and information retrieval. It looks like this:

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I am a lead data scientist at the FD Mediagroep, where I work with a team of four data scientists on SMART Radio (BNR) and SMART Journalism (FD). I have a PhD in Information Retrieval from ILPS (at the University of Amsterdam).

I work on news personalization and recommender systems. I don’t believe in the filter bubble, I don’t think personalized ads are the death of democracy, and in the current times where AI touches many aspects of our lives, I feel a responsibility as a computer scientist to explain about my work and area of expertise.