William Steenbergen
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Co-Founder/CTO
California, United States
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Co-Founder/CTOFederatoMay 2020 - Current (6 years 4 months)www.federato.ai- Graduate ResearcherStanford UniversityApr 2020 - Jun 2021 (1 year 3 months)Research at Stanford's Smart Primer project and in Professor Emma Brunskill's lab. Publishing research about using Reinforcement Learning for educational chatbots. Also working on research in offline RL, e.g. using weighted importance sampling over a non constant behaviour policy in small sample situations.
- Data Scientist and EngineerBuilding BlocksApr 2019 - Aug 2019 (5 months)Building Blocks is a startup providing data science solutions to retailers and insurance companies. - Built and implemented recommendation system for primary website of a large international clothing retailer. - Developed and implemented new bayesian optimisation techniques, in collaboration with prof. van de Velden - Gave trainings and workshops in personal development - Using Python, R, Azure, Scala, SQL, C++
- Managing DirectorDe Kleine ConsultantAug 2018 - Aug 2019 (1 year 1 month)De kleine consultant is the biggest student-run strategy consulting organisation in Europe, partnered with McKinsey, Bain, BCG, A.T. Kearney among others.
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- MS, Computational and Mathematical EngineeringStanford University
- Summer SchoolThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
- BSc - Magna Cum Laude, University College Twente / EconometricsUniversity of Twente
- MSc, Econometrics and Management SciencesErasmus School of EconomicsBusiness Analytics and Quantative Marketing track
- PVWO SprintPallas Athene College
- Econometrics and Quantitative EconomicsUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
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- PPrins Bernhard CultuurfondsPrins Bernhard CultuurfondsReceived €20,000 from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (PBH) to help paying my studies at Stanford University. PBH gives scholarships to the most ambitious and intelligent students in the Netherlands, that pursue a second master abroad.
- NVSB FondsNUFFICA scholarship worth €10,000 towards second MSc at Stanford University. The VSB fonds gives scholarships to a selected group of ‘talented students that are engaged with their social environment and are motivated to give back to society.’
- SWinner Earth Hackathon Continuation prizeStanford Data Science InstituteTogether with my team of 4, we won the continuation prize at the Stanford Big Earth hackathon. The prize contains $4000 for more work and the opportunity to present progress at a symposium.
- EElsevier Best Researcher 'Natural Sciences and Engineering' 2018Elsevier Ministry of Education Culture and Science- Awarded the 'Elsevier best researcher in natural sciences and engineering' award during the Student Research Conference 2018. The Student Research Conference is a conference where research talent from Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands are invited to speak about their projects. The award consists of a €1000 and is sponsored by Elsevier.