David Vos

I am a PhD student at the IRLab Amsterdam, working on generative methods for news content. I am a part of the Responsible Media ICAI Lab partnering with DPG Media.

My research focuses on the domains of information retrieval, natural language processing and machine learning.

Feel free to reach out to me with (BSc or MSc) thesis supervision requests or with ideas for a potential research collaboration.

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Publications 📝

Education 🎓

  • Master in Artificial Intelligence
    University of Amsterdam
    GPA: 8.2/10, cum laude
  • Minor in Computer Science
    University of Edinburgh
  • Bachelor in Artificial Intelligence
    University of Amsterdam
    GPA: 8.3/10, cum laude
    Completed the official honours programme

Talks 🎙️

Sample of my work 👨🏼‍💻

  • Worked at the UvA INDE Lab as a visiting researcher on employing Large Language Models for data management.
  • My master thesis on prefix-tuning for multilingual data-to-text generation.
  • I did an internship at DPG Media (Recommendation & Search), the biggest media publisher in the Netherlands.
  • I worked at A-INSIGHTS as a data engineer on creating efficient data pipelines to provide market insights.
  • I worked at Finly as a web developer on an application to help (insurance) companies efficiently communicate with their clients.
  • A very small Chrome plugin to quickly close Stack Overflow tabs.
  • More things I have worked on...

Some of my skills 🎯

Programming: Python (advanced), SQL (advanced), Javascript (advanced), Latex (advanced), Go (intermediate), PHP (intermediate), Java (intermediate), R (intermediate), C (beginner), Rust (beginner)
Frameworks: PyTorch (advanced), Django & Flask (advanced), Laravel (advanced), React (intermediate)
Languages: Dutch (native), English (fluent, C2 level with CPE certificate), German (intermediate, B2 level)