dbarenholz

About Me

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I am an innovation-driven, hardworking person, always looking to improve. It does not matter if it is a new technological framework or developing an improvement upon existing code, I am always up for the task if I can learn something. For a slightly more professional (and complete) explanation of who I am, visit my LinkedIn profile.

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Experience

PhD @ Utrecht University

During my PhD I look into the interplay between data and processes. An approachable example of what this means can be found on this page. In a nutshell, I look into how we can work with data objects using a process-aware hat, and doing so from a theoretical/mathematical point of view.

Publications

Thesis @ Vanderlande

I wrote my thesis at Vanderlande, a company that (amongst others) builds complete solutions for warehouse automation. The project was focused on improving their STOREPICK evolution, a product that helps optimize the picking process in warehouses. The project was exploratory in nature, as it was unclear if a data-driven approach to improvement was possible. The goal: find out if by modelling the process and data with a graph database (Neo4j) we can find interesting patterns. More details on the thesis page.

Resarch Intern @ Process Analytics Lab, TU/e

During my masters, I did an internship at the Process Analytics lab at TU/e. I looked into combining the fields of process discovery and probabilistic models. This was very exploratory in nature, consisting of a lot of reading and creativity. Quite a few different directions for future work came out of this internship. As my first real research experience, it was a great learning opportunity. More details can be found on the internship page.

Bug Hunter Extraordinaire

The title aside, I have worked on a company's internal inventory management system, built using Kendo UI, the php language, and SOAP (where you had a bunch of xml files, as opposed to json). During my time there, I was primarily focused on bughunting the existing codebase. By identifying and fixing all bugs I could find, I've left their inhouse inventory management system in a much better (read: functional, as opposed to broken) state than it was before.

Education

Master: Data Science in Engineering

I have an MSc titled Data Science in Engineering, a specialised mastertrack within the Computer Science and Engineering master at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). During my masters, I focused mostly on process mining and generative models. I also did an internship at the Process Analytics lab, and wrote my thesis at Vanderlande to gain experience using real data. During all of my studies, I was teaching assistant for a variety of courses.

Bachelor: Computer Science

I have a BSc in Computer science, also done at the TU/e. My bachelor was deliberately less about specific topics -- instead embracing a wide variety of subjects -- to give me a good overview (at the time) of the field, and provide a good base for my masters. As opposed to a thesis, at the time of studying TU/e had decided to do a bachelor project, which was a group project where we had to build software for a real client.

Honors Academy: During my bachelor I was enrolled in the honors academy doing Competitive Programming and Problem Solving (CPPS). For an explanation on CPPS, see here. My (ancient) cheatsheet is also available . I gave a talk about subset dynamic programming, in case you want to look at pretty slides or read an old report .

Volunteer work