Dieter De Witte
AI Innovation Advisor
Tielt, West Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolDieter De Witte is an AI innovation advisor and applied AI team lead with 11 years of experience turning research-grade ideas into working prototypes using LLMs, computer vision and knowledge graphs. He specializes in impactful AI for mental healthcare, education and cultural institutions, bridging academic research and industry through funded projects and product-focused translations. As a professor and former Big Data consultant, he combines deep technical grounding (PhD in Computer Science) with hands-on data engineering, ethics-aware project management and FAIR/GDPR best practices. He mentors and trains junior teams, turning conceptual requirements into scalable cloud deployments and reproducible research outputs. Notably, his work often emphasizes "run once, query many" data strategies and publishing FAIR data to maximize reuse across disciplines. Based in Tielt, Belgium, he excels in multidisciplinary settings where technical rigor meets measurable social impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Ghent UniversitySecondary school, Mathematics & Science, Secondary school, Mathematics & Science at De Bron
English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
docker-run10
notebook10
jupyter-notebook10
ipython10
jupyterhub10
jupyterlab10
jupyter10
binder10
python9
docker9
css6
web-development5
javascript5
fundamentals5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
drdwitte/rdfbenchmarking
Dec 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
drdwitte/benchmarking_biom_semantics
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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