Summary
Guido Van Den Heuvel is a statistical researcher with 11+ years of experience applying machine learning and natural language processing to give meaning to Dutch and English text, currently focused on product classification for consumer e-commerce. He combines a strong academic foundation — including MSc degrees in Mathematics and Astronomy and PhD-level work in Mathematics — with practical expertise from six years in search engine development and five years building flexible web-scraping toolchains. His background in numerical analysis and efficient N-body solvers gives him a rare blend of algorithmic rigor and applied data engineering, especially for simulation-informed approaches. Based in Leiden, he brings deep domain knowledge in text analytics, scalable data collection, and numerical methods, often translating theoretical insights into production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mathematics, PhD, Mathematics at Leiden University
English, German, Latin, Dutch