Anne Dirkson
Data Scientist
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAnne Dirkson is a data scientist with eight years of experience applying computational methods to health and societal challenges, currently working at the Dutch national government (Rijksoverheid). Her PhD research at Leiden combined text mining and knowledge cross-linking to extract clinically relevant hypotheses from patient forums, showing a talent for turning noisy, user-generated text into novel insights. She has hands-on experience in public-health analytics from a COVID-19 social media project at RIVM and a background in neuroscience and imaging, giving her a rare blend of domain knowledge and machine-learning practice. Anne focuses on impactful, ethically minded projects—evident in her work mining patient forums for adverse effects and coping strategies—and often bridges research and policy to guide evidence-driven decisions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Liberal Arts and Sciences: Neuro(psychology), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Liberal Arts and Sciences: Neuro(psychology) at Maastricht UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Research Master: Neurosciences, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Research Master: Neurosciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)PhD Computerwetenschappen, PhD Computerwetenschappen at Leiden University
Dutch, English
Github Skills (28)
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
speech-recognition8
python8
deep-learning8
medicine8
bert8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
transformers7
normalization7
tensorflow7
medical7
transformer7
forum6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AnneDirkson/LexNorm
Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
Lexical normalization pipeline for medical patient forum data
Contributions:58 commits, 2 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 year 6 months
nlppipelinepatientforumnormalization
AnneDirkson/breakingBERT
Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
This repository contains the code for Breaking BERT: Adversarial Attack for Named Entity Recognition
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
nlptransformersnamed-entity-recognitionentity-recognitionbert
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