Thierry Deruyttere
Founder at You & AI
Antwerp Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolThierry Deruyttere is a founder and AI researcher with a decade of experience focused on autonomous vehicles, deep learning, and human–machine command interfaces. He completed a magna cum laude Master in Artificial Intelligence and a PhD at KU Leuven where his research centered on giving natural commands to self-driving cars. Based in Antwerp, he blends academic rigor with entrepreneurial drive through his startup You & AI, translating cutting-edge research into practical products. Social and skilled at working with groups, he navigates interdisciplinary teams across robotics, finance, and blockchain interests. Less obvious: his background as a civil-engineering-trained AI specialist gives him a systems-level perspective on safety and real-world deployment challenges.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Artificial Intelligence (Civil Engineer), Great distinction - Magna cum laude, Master, Artificial Intelligence (Civil Engineer), Great distinction - Magna cum laude at KU LeuvenBachelor, Computer Science, Great distinction - Magna cum laude, Bachelor, Computer Science, Great distinction - Magna cum laude at University of Antwerp
Dutch, French, English
Github Skills (99)
unreal-engine-410
simulator10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
video-understanding10
paper10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
computer-vision10
airsim10
carla10
artificial-intelligence10
multimodal-deep-learning10
arxiv10
simulation10
imitation-learning10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
talk2car/Talk2Car
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
The official Talk2Car dataset repo
Contributions:4 PRs, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
dataset
ThierryDeruyttere/carla-simulator-mac
Oct 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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