Oskar Van Der Wal
Technology Specialist (AI Safety) At EU AI Office at European Commission
Belgium
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Top SchoolOskar Van Der Wal is a Technology Specialist focused on AI Safety at the EU AI Office within the European Commission, bringing six years of hands-on experience bridging research and policy for the AI Act. He completed a PhD investigating undesirable biases in NLP at the University of Amsterdam, translating academic findings into practical mitigation strategies. His background includes industrial R&D and internships—most notably at EleutherAI and Sapiat—where he built production-grade information extraction and NER systems from scratch. Comfortable both with deep learning research and engineering workflows, he has a track record of moving prototypes into production while collaborating closely with developers. Based in Belgium with a multidisciplinary foundation in AI, mechatronics and liberal arts, he combines technical rigor with policy-minded thinking to make AI systems safer and more accountable. An often-overlooked strength is his experience working across academia, startups and EU institutions, giving him uncommon fluency in research, product delivery, and regulatory translation.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences, University College Twente (ATLAS), Bachelor of Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences, University College Twente (ATLAS) at Universiteit TwenteMaster's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence at University of AmsterdamExchange Programme, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Exchange Programme, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Aalborg Universitet
Dutch, English
Github Skills (22)
pytorch10
language-model10
evaluation10
machine-learning10
prompt-tuning10
large-language-models10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
evaluation-framework10
nlp10
tensorflow9
transfer-learning9
prompt-toolkit8
python8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
oskarvanderwal/sinterklaas-keybasebot
Mar 2020 - Jun 2023
Code for running a simple Keybase bot that generates Sinterklaas poems on command.
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
language-modeltransformerspoemsdiscordbot
oskarvanderwal/oskarvanderwal.github.io
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:82 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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