Maarten Sukel
Founder AI Specialist Machine Learning Engineer at The AI Factory B.V.
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMaarten Sukel is a founder and machine learning engineer with a PhD in multimodal ML from the University of Amsterdam and roughly a decade of experience building production AI products. He founded The AI Factory and multiple startups—Murmel (a Dutch-first speech-to-text model hosted entirely in the Netherlands) and Parlinq (policy intelligence for Dutch and EU decision-making)—bringing research-grade models into operational systems. Previously he ran demand-forecasting ML at scale for Picnic and led municipal AI initiatives for Amsterdam, combining hands-on engineering with public-sector impact. Author of De AI Revolutie and a frequent keynote speaker, he explains technical detail while exploring societal implications of AI. Notably, his work emphasizes national data sovereignty and practical deployments rather than purely academic benchmarks.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Multimodal machine learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Multimodal machine learning at University of Amsterdam
Dutch, English
Github Skills (23)
temporal9
pytorch-lightning9
uncertainty9
object-detection8
time-series-forecasting8
pytorch8
gpu7
forecasting7
python7
forecast7
deep-learning6
ai6
machine-learning6
classifier6
pandas6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
maartensukel/video-to-traffic-flow-information
Nov 2019 - Jul 2021
This repository allows turning video data into information about traffic flows using object detection and object tracking.
Contributions:23 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 8 months
object-detectionobject-tracking
maartensukel/example-textual-classification-citizen-reports
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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