Roel Heremans

Freelance Data Scientist

SattvaFZCO•  January 2022 - Present

Consultancy work in data analytics and in crypto

Senior Data Scientist

AGT•  January 2015 - December 2021

Achievements/Tasks: - Provided a major contribution in the development of the first sensor based bull scoring system in the world for the Profes- sional Bull Riders organization using artificial intelligence. - Responsible for the implementation of the analytics solution of bull scoring. This included sensor signal processing, feature extraction of bull parameters, model building to predict the difficulty of a ride according to multiple criteria. - Finalized project to customer satisfaction. - Participated in various pre-sales activities, proof-of-concepts and scope definition for various projects in sports and entertainment including basketball, horse riding and surfing. Contact: Christian Debes – Lead data scientist - (linkedin.com/in/christiandebes)

Senior Researcher

AGT international•  January 2012 - December 2014

Achievements/Tasks: - Build prototypes and production code for various applications in industry 4.0 including predictive maintenance for heavy machinery, machine state estimation and anomaly detection. Customers were from German industry. - Contributed to a system for dike stability monitoring with in-situ sensors. The analytics work included failure prediction, trend analysis, modeling and simulation of complex environmental systems. Contact: Joachim Schaper – Senior VP R&D - (linkedin.com/in/joachim-schaper-2212991)

Senior Researcher

Royal Military Academy•  January 2003 - December 2011

Achievements/Tasks: - Developed analytics code for various projects including automatic flood detection using radar imagery, non-destructive testing of material defects using Terahertz radiation, mine detection on the sea floor using synthetic aperture sonar imagery. Contact: Prof. Alain Muls – Head CISS - (linkedin.com/in/alain-muls-32b312135)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

High Energy Physics, PhD•  June 1998 - December 2002

Experimental particle physicist, analysed high energy electron proton collisions to study diffraction processes.