Derek Van Tilborg
Postdoctoral Researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Van Tilborg is a PhD-trained molecular machine learning researcher with eight years’ experience applying deep learning, chemoinformatics, and wet-lab validation to accelerate small-molecule drug discovery and nanobiologic design. He builds and evaluates models tailored for low-data regimes—especially active learning and novel uncertainty estimation—to push reliable prediction at the edge of chemical space. During his PhD he delivered multiple first-author papers, mentored students, and experimentally validated AI-guided designs in close collaboration with wet-lab teams. Now a postdoctoral researcher in Eindhoven, he’s looking to translate his interdisciplinary toolkit into R&D roles in pharma or biotech to design, implement, and validate ML workflows that make discovery faster and safer. An underappreciated strength is his hands-on blend of experimental skills and generative/graph neural model expertise, which helps close the loop from prediction to bench.
7 years of coding experience
HBO Biologie en medisch laboratoriumonderzoek, HBO Biologie en medisch laboratoriumonderzoek at Avans University of Applied SciencesHBO Technische natuurkunde, HBO Technische natuurkunde at Fontys University of Applied SciencesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven University of TechnologyHavo, Havo at Onze Lieve VrouwelyceumMaster's degree Bioinformatics, Master's degree Bioinformatics at Wageningen University & Research
Github Skills (4)
3d-models9
3d-printing8
pipeline8
anchor7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
molML/MoleculeACE
May 2022 - Dec 2022
A tool for evaluating the predictive performance on activity cliff compounds of machine learning models
Contributions:3 releases, 67 commits, 6 PRs in 6 months
derekvantilborg/derekvantilborg.github.io
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020
A port of the Airspace theme by ThemeFisher to Jekyll.
Contributions:163 pushes in 6 months
airspacejekylljekyll-themethemefisher
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