Emil Rijcken
Senior Machine Learning Engineer (via Deel) at Seldon Digital
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolEmil Rijcken is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer and AI Lead with eight years of experience bridging academic NLP research and product-focused AI engineering. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and built his expertise in explainable document classification and topic-model-driven interpretability during research roles at CWI and in collaboration with mental-health services. As co-founder of Seldon Digital and now leading ML at Celebrate Company via Deel, he combines first-principles thinking with a knack for turning theoretical insights into production-ready, component-based tooling. Emil’s background in business analytics and economics informs a pragmatic approach to deploying ML in real-world settings, and his competitive past—representing the Netherlands in basketball and reaching #1 globally in Math Flash—reveals a taste for fast thinking and performance under pressure.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Business Analytics, Master's degree Business Analytics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at Eindhoven University of TechnologyDL4NLP Winter school - Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing, DL4NLP Winter school - Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing at EHU
English, German, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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301kreached
28answers
140questions
Github Skills (38)
sentence-embeddings10
latent-dirichlet-allocation10
gensim10
word2vec10
corpus10
arabic-nlp10
data-mining10
word-embeddings10
information-retrieval10
lda10
fasttext10
topic-modeling10
nlp10
sentence-similarity10
glove10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ERijck/FuzzyTM
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Fuzzy Topic Models
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 26 commits in 1 year 1 month
nlpfuzzymachine-learningtopic-modelsnatural-language-processing
ERijck/gensim
Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
Topic Modelling for Humans
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 17 branches in 4 months
nlpmachine-learningfor-humanstopic-modellingtopic-modeling
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