About

MauritsI am scientist and entrepreneur. My scientific work focusses on statistical methods for personalization (in e.g., healthcare and marketing), machine learning, and data science. I have successfully founded, grown, and sold companies, and I have attracted over 3.5 Million in funding. I have developed several popular software packages and I am the author of 3 books, and over 60 scientific publications.

I received my Ph.D. with honors form the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Next, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Aalto school of Economics, Aalto, Finland. Afterwards, I worked for 2 years as an assistant professor of Statistics and Research Methods at the University of Tilburg. I have previously (during my Ph.D. work) worked as a research scientist at Philips Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands and as a distinguished visiting scholar at the CHIMe lab of Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA. I have also worked as an assistant professor in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Radboud University Nijmegen where I was the track leader of a master track called “Web and Language”. I (amongst other courses) was responsible for a course on AI techniques on the web called “AI at the Webscale”.

Currently, I am a Professor of Data Science & Health, with a focus on data-driven methods for treatment personalization in healthcare, at JADS and the University of Tilburg. I also hold an appointment as an assistant professor in Statistics and Research Methods at Tilburg University. You can find the website of the research lab that I run right here: www.nth-iteration.com.

At the end of 2012, my first book called “Digitale Verleiding” (since 2015 also available in English here) was published. It is currently in its 5th print, and still going strong. The book is also available in English under the title: “Persuasion Profiling, how the internet knows what makes you tick.” In 2016, Prof. Judy Robertson and I published the book “Modern Statistical Methods for HCI“. Recently, I published the (Dutch) book “Hallo wereld, Hallo computer” which tries to explain the main concepts behind computing and machine learning to a general audience.

 

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