Karel Van De Plassche
Research Scientist at DIFFER
North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolKarel Van De Plassche is a research scientist and software engineer with 11 years of experience applying scientific programming and machine learning to fusion energy and data-intensive problems. He has developed and maintained physics-informed ML surrogates for tokamak modeling (notably work on QuaLiKiz and QLKNN that earned an editors' pick) and contributed full-stack improvements to the popular Bokeh visualization library. His work spans research, production software and community engagement—from integrating IMAS data for ITER to teaching volunteers Python for citizen-science air-quality projects. Comfortable across Python, embedded C, and visualization stacks, he blends rigorous academic training with hands-on engineering to make complex simulations and pipelines usable and reproducible. Outside work he channels his technical curiosity into game development and cross-platform open-source projects, having largely moved his public work to GitLab.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science, Technische Natuurkunde, 8, Bachelor of Applied Science, Technische Natuurkunde, 8 at Fontys Hogeschool EindhovenNone, Technische Natuurkunde, None, Technische Natuurkunde at Technische Universiteit EindhovenMaster of Science (MSc), Science and Technology of Nuclear Fusion, 7.8, Master of Science (MSc), Science and Technology of Nuclear Fusion, 7.8 at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven / Eindhoven University of Technology
English, Dutch, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
data-visualizations10
docker10
bokeh10
python10
data-visualisation10
dockers10
data-visualization10
testing9
javascript9
pandas9
conda8
coffeescript8
jupyter7
spreadsheet6
gdata6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bokeh/bokeh
May 2018 - Jul 2019
Interactive Data Visualization in the browser, from Python
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 16 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Karel contributed to various aspects of the Bokeh project, demonstrating a full-stack skillset. They fixed a name collision in a CoffeeScript example, enhanced the documentation for setting up a Conda environment using fish shell, and resolved an issue concerning static HTML generation with Python callbacks. Additionally, they improved the handling of Pandas Series within the plotting library and added a proof-of-concept Docker container.
pythonvisualisationplottingbokehplots
Karel-van-de-Plassche/bokeh-ion-rangeslider
May 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:1 release, 31 commits, 21 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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