Mickey Beurskens
PHD Candidate
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMickey Beurskens is an AI research engineer and PhD candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology specializing in safe reinforcement learning and generative AI, with nine years of hands-on experience bridging research and production. He designs end-to-end technology stacks and brings novel AI applications to life at Forge Fire while advising and shaping strategy on Serpentine AI’s board. His background spans embedded and robotics systems—C++/C# for 3D screens and multi-agent opponent modeling—giving him a rare combination of low-level systems fluency and algorithmic safety expertise. A winner with Tech United’s robot soccer team, he pairs a Mechanical Engineering foundation with current PhD-level research, enabling practical solutions grounded in rigorous theory. He publishes and writes about AI alignment and safety (see mickey.coffee), and frequently moves ideas from prototype to deployable product.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Eindhoven University of Technology
Github Skills (48)
analytics9
hardware9
machine-learning9
data-mining9
fine-tuning9
sdk9
application9
science9
data-visualization9
python-black9
computer-vision8
deep-learning8
realsense8
vector-database8
ocr8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GnomeBlue/pacman_reinforcement_ai
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
A reinforcement learning based agent for pacman using the OpenAI Gym python library.
Contributions:2 releases, 12 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 2 months
openai-gympythonreinforcement-learning
mickeybeurskens/mickeybeurskens
Feb 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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