Samuel Kolb is a founder and CTO with 11 years of AI research and product experience, currently building Predikt to translate cutting-edge explainable and automated machine learning into a financial digital twin for strategic planning. He holds a summa cum laude PhD in Artificial Intelligence from KU Leuven and spent his career bridging academic rigor—postdoctoral research and a PhD at KU Leuven—with practical systems engineering. His work combines operations research, probabilistic reasoning and generative AI to surface market signals for finance teams, reflecting a rare mix of theoretical depth and product-oriented delivery. Based in Leuven, Belgium, he’s known for turning sophisticated ML research into usable decision-support software rather than pure prototypes.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Summa cum laude with congratulations of the Board of Examiners, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Summa cum laude with congratulations of the Board of Examiners at KU Leuven
Master’s Degree, Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence, Magna cum Laude, Master’s Degree, Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence, Magna cum Laude at University of Leuven
High School, High School at Internationale Deutsche Schule Brüssel
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