Dennis Soemers
Assistant Professor at Maastricht University
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDennis Soemers is an Assistant Professor in Advanced Computing Sciences at Maastricht University with 11 years of research and teaching experience focused on reinforcement learning, planning, search, and machine learning. He progressed from research internships and industry work to a PhD and postdoc, contributing to the ERC-funded Digital Ludeme Project and gaining industry experience as a Facebook AI research intern. Dennis teaches multiple master courses, supervises bachelor and master projects, and has a track record of publishing practical advances such as novel plan-reuse techniques for hierarchical planners. Based in Maastricht, he blends rigorous academic research with hands-on implementation—often keeping his personal homepage more up-to-date than public profiles—and maintains an active presence on GitHub reflecting his ongoing contributions to AI research and tools.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence at Maastricht University
English, Dutch, German, french: je ne parle pas français, turkish: ben bir balığım
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (75)
cpp10
mahjong10
markov-decision-processes10
q-learning10
artificial-intelligence10
reinforcement-learning10
planning10
monte-carlo-tree-search10
face9
operations-research9
playing9
openai-gym9
neural-network9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
python9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Ludeme/LudiiPythonAI
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
Example repo for running Python-based AIs in Ludii
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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DennisSoemers/DennisSoemers.github.io
Aug 2016 - Mar 2025
Repository for my github page.
Contributions:25 PRs, 157 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 8 months
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