Jessa Bekker
Research Manager at KU Leuven
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolJessa Bekker is a research manager and machine learning specialist with a decade of experience bridging academic rigor and applied AI to tackle societal challenges like healthcare and accessibility. Based in Leuven, she moved from a PhD and postdoc at KU Leuven—where she published on positive-and-unlabeled learning and tractable probabilistic models—to applied ML work at Acapela, helping build expressive digital voices for people with speech impairments. Her expertise spans decision-tree methods, structure learning for tractable models, and practical ML research management, with open-source contributions and project pages supporting reproducible tools. Colleagues describe her as someone who pairs deep theoretical insight with pragmatic engineering, and she has a knack for turning challenging statistical problems into deployable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
General Secondary Education, Mathematics and Science, General Secondary Education, Mathematics and Science at Sint AlbertuscollegeArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Stanford Online ClassMaster of Computer Science (Exchange), Magna Cum Laude, Master of Computer Science (Exchange), Magna Cum Laude at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Cum Laude at Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenSpanish (A1), Spanish (A1) at Centrum Levende Talen (CLT), Leuven
Dutch, Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (6)
density-estimation7
algorithm6
python5
cython5
jekyll3
machine-learning2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ML-KULeuven/LearnSDD
Mar 2018 - Aug 2020
Implementation of the Structure Learning Algorithm for Sentential Decision Diagrams
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
gerlindebekker/gerlindebekker.github.io
Nov 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:22 pushes in 9 years 3 months
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