Tom Pepels
Lecturer at Maastricht University
Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Pepels is a lecturer and AI researcher with 13 years of experience in advanced computing sciences, currently teaching at Maastricht University's Faculty of Science while finalising a PhD on Monte-Carlo Tree Search. He blends academic research, data science, and hands-on software development from roles spanning university teaching, industry research, and leading an operations-focused startup. Based in Porto, he brings practical systems experience dating to emergency dispatch IT and consultancy projects for public-sector clients, alongside program management work in educational innovation. Outside academia he roasts coffee under the Onsen Roastery label and plays piano, a creative counterpoint to his technical focus on search algorithms and AI.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence at Maastricht UniversityMAVO, MAVO at Groenewald College SteinPropedeuse, Mathematics Teacher Education, Propedeuse, Mathematics Teacher Education at Fontys HogescholenMBO, Information Technology, MBO, Information Technology at Leeuwenborgh Sittard
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (4)
robotics2
ros2
wavefront1
frontier1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tpepels/mcts_mspacman
Oct 2012 - May 2013
Contributions:31 commits in 6 months
tpepels/mcts_python
Jul 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:637 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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