Summary
Julian Kooij is an Associate Professor at Technische Universiteit Delft with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and real-world autonomous vehicle systems. His work sits at the intersection of computer vision, deep learning and pattern recognition, with a strong engineering grounding in Python and C++ applied to visual sensing and intelligent vehicles. He progressed from PhD research at the University of Amsterdam to postdoctoral work and faculty roles at TU Delft, leading the "Visual Sensing and Learning" group and contributing to projects on pedestrian intent prediction for ADAS. Julian combines rigor in fundamental AI research with hands-on experimentation in vehicle perception, and is known for translating complex models into deployable sensing solutions. Based in Amsterdam, he brings both academic leadership and practical industry experience to multidisciplinary teams.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Artificial Intelligence, MSc, Artificial Intelligence at University of Amsterdam
VWO, VWO at Barlaeus Gymnasium
Dutch, English, Spanish, German