Willem Van Hage
Leraar Informatica En Informatiekunde
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWillem Van Hage is a versatile computer scientist and educator with 15 years of experience bridging research, applied analytics, and teaching; he currently teaches computer science and information studies while also instructing karate. Formerly Technology Lead Analytics at the Netherlands eScience Center, he shaped analytics policy, coordinated internal training, and founded ten Special Interest Groups to grow research software engineering capacity. His research and project work spans NLP, semantic web, geospatial semantics, visual analytics and large-scale data integration across domains from literary studies to climatology and maritime situational awareness. Willem combines academic rigor (PhD in Computer Science) with hands-on product and prototyping experience from roles at SynerScope and other labs, making him equally comfortable with modeling, visualization and production tooling in Python. He has a knack for turning detective-like research problems—such as extracting events and reasoning about movement at sea—into practical analytics solutions. Based in Amsterdam, he also pursues creative outlets as a musician and longtime karate instructor, reflecting a pragmatic, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University of AmsterdamSGR
Dutch, English, German, French, Chinese
Stackoverflow
11reputation
196reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (34)
discoverability6
php6
python6
r6
react5
crossfilter5
visualization5
javascript5
gitbook5
java4
webpack4
cross-platform4
reproducible-research3
typescript3
linked-data2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nlesc-sigs/propose-a-sig
Oct 2019 - Feb 2023
Repo with source files for the SIG proposal document
Contributions:10 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 4 months
pythonsigsource-files
cran/SPARQL
May 2011 - Mar 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 10 months
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