Cedric De Boom
Lead Data Scientist
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolCedric De Boom is a Lead Data Scientist with 11 years of experience blending academic rigor and production ML across industry and research, currently leading data science at Lighthouse and lecturing on MLOps at KU Leuven Brugge. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and has a strong track record in representation learning, recommender systems, real-time model reduction and causal inference from roles at UGent, Spotify, DPG Media and Statistiek Vlaanderen. Comfortable across the stack, he has deployed models on cloud platforms (Google Cloud, AWS), big-data tooling (BigQuery, Spark, Databricks) and orchestration frameworks (Airflow), and moved research prototypes into scalable products. A certified teacher and experienced university instructor, he excels at translating complex AI concepts for industry and students alike. Outside tech he is an accomplished pianist and trained photographer, a combination that reflects his analytic creativity and attention to detail.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
ASO Greek-Mathematics, ASO Greek-Mathematics at SJKSMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Engineering Science: Computer Science: Information and Communication Technology, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Engineering Science: Computer Science: Information and Communication Technology at Ghent UniversityMusic academy, Beveren-Waas, Sint-Niklaas and GhentSpecifieke lerarenopleiding (SLO) // Teacher certification Mathematics and ICT, Specifieke lerarenopleiding (SLO) // Teacher certification Mathematics and ICT at CVO Kisp
Dutch, French, English, German
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Github Skills (65)
scheduler9
python9
monitor9
corpus8
topic-modeling8
word2vec8
automation8
etl8
fasttext8
machine-learning8
gensim8
apache8
data-science8
lda7
mlops7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cedricdeboom/character-level-rnn-datasets
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
cedricdeboom/cedricdeboom.github.io
Nov 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years
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