Summary
David Vos is a PhD student at the Information Retrieval Lab Amsterdam with nine years of hands-on experience building production software and research systems for recommendation, search, and personalized news. He studies representation learning, generative modeling, and ranking—bridging rigor from publications (NeurIPS workshop) with practical engineering delivered at companies like DPG Media and Vaccinatieregister. His background spans data engineering, ML internships, and co-founding a digital product studio, giving him fluency from prototype algorithms to deployed integrations with medical and media systems. Academically he holds cum laude BSc and MSc degrees in Artificial Intelligence and has taught undergraduate courses, reflecting both deep technical grounding and clear communication skills. Notably, he combines a research-first mindset with product-focused experience shipping real-world pipelines and standards-compliant integrations.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Elective courses on Computer Science and Anthropology, Erasmus Exchange, Elective courses on Computer Science and Anthropology, Erasmus Exchange at The University of Edinburgh
VWO, VWO at CSG Het Streek
Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, 8.2/10 (cum laude), Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, 8.2/10 (cum laude) at University of Amsterdam
Honours Programme for BSc., Artificial intelligence, Honours Programme for BSc., Artificial intelligence at Universiteit van Amsterdam
Dutch, English