Don Willems is a software engineer with 12+ years of experience applying AI, semantics and HCI to real-world decision support and predictive systems. With a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and a career spanning research institutes and industry (including Wageningen Food & Biobased Research and Oda), he blends machine learning, NLP and ontology-driven data management to improve outcomes in domains like food production and automated retail. He has built end-to-end solutions that marry information extraction and human-centered interfaces, turning heterogeneous data into actionable predictions. Early research in multimodal interaction and pattern recognition informs his pragmatic approach to complex data problems today. Based in Norway, he is especially adept at using semantic models to make AI systems more interpretable and integrative across data sources.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Artificial Intelligence, PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Radboud University
Propedeuse, Artificial Intelligence, Propedeuse, Artificial Intelligence at University of Amsterdam
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