Daan Odijk
Head Of Data & AI
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDaan Odijk is Head of Data & AI at RTL Nederland with 14 years of experience bridging academic research and production data systems to make media more personalized and data-driven. He leads a 40-person Data Unit spanning engineering, analytics, conversion and data science, and directs RTL’s AI lab on Trustworthy AI that supports five PhD students. A former Blendle lead data scientist with a PhD in Information Retrieval from the University of Amsterdam, he repeatedly turns research—especially semantic search and live TV enrichment—into scalable products and partnerships. He also co-leads Bertelsmann’s AI Expert Group, driving cross-division collaboration through hackathons and knowledge programs. Known for combining hands-on technical judgment with strategic leadership, he often pursues atypical academic-industry collaborations to accelerate real-world impact.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master Information Science Human-Centered Multimedia track, Master Information Science Human-Centered Multimedia track at University of AmsterdamBertelsmann University PFO, Bertelsmann University PFO at INSEADExchange student Arts & Science, Exchange student Arts & Science at University of Toronto
English, Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (42)
metadata9
entity9
python8
cython7
dir7
natural-language-processing7
nlp7
loss6
turkish6
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
text-classification6
language-processing6
named-entity-recognition6
artificial-intelligence6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
semanticize/semanticizer
Apr 2012 - Nov 2015
Contributions:113 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 7 months
entityentity-linkinglinking
Annotatiepilot/annotatiepilot.github.io
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:23 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
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