Wouter Van Amsterdam
Assistant Professor at UMC Utrecht
Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWouter Van Amsterdam is an assistant professor and data scientist with 11 years of experience at the intersection of statistics, machine learning, causal inference, and clinical medicine. Based at UMC Utrecht’s Julius Centre, he develops methodological and applied ML solutions to improve medical decision-making, especially in oncology, with experience across survival analysis, missing data, and high-dimensional image analysis. His background combines an MD and a PhD in medicine with a cum laude MSc in epidemiology and hands-on research stints at institutions including Courant/NYU and Dana-Farber, reflecting both strong theoretical grounding and practical clinical insight. Previously a senior research scientist at Babylon, he brings industry experience translating probabilistic models into healthcare products. Colleagues value his ability to bridge rigorous causal methods and real-world clinical problems, and he maintains active international collaborations born from his visiting research roles.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medicine at Utrecht University-, Coursera online course: R Programming, With distinction, -, Coursera online course: R Programming, With distinction at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Github Skills (61)
mcmc10
pyro10
bayesian-inference10
artificial-intelligence9
probabilistic-programming9
pytorch9
python9
ai9
jax9
jit8
deep-learning8
gpu8
htmlwidgets8
machine-learning8
pretrain8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vanAmsterdam/vanamsterdam.github.io
Sep 2024 - Jun 2026
academic website of Wouter van Amsterdam
Contributions:17 PRs, 84 pushes, 36 branches in 1 year 9 months
vanAmsterdam/numpyro
May 2020 - Nov 2025
Probabilistic programming with NumPy powered by JAX for autograd and JIT compilation to GPU/TPU/CPU.
Contributions:1 PR, 26 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 6 months
pythonautomatic-differentiationtpuopenmpcpu
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