Daniël de Kok

Daniël de Kok is a seasoned professional in machine learning and natural language processing, currently serving as a Machine Learning Ops Engineer at Hugging Face since May 2024. Previous roles include working as a Machine Learning & NLP consultant at Biaffine and leading the Performance Team as a Machine Learning Engineer at Explosion, where Daniël contributed to the development of the Thinc library and spaCy. Prior experience includes consulting for TensorDot, focusing on multi-task syntax annotation, and an extensive research background at the University of Tübingen, where notable work included advancements in dependency parsing and multi-task learning, as well as multiple publications. Daniël began academic pursuits with a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Groningen and has held various roles in both academic and industry settings, consistently advancing language technology and neural network applications throughout a distinguished career.