Floris Van den Abeele

Floris Van den Abeele has a diverse work experience that spans various industries and roles. Floris currently works at Oqton as a Machine Learning Operations Engineer. Prior to this, they were the owner of their own company, vdna. Floris also worked as a Software Engineer at Atlas Copco.

Floris has a background in the medical field, having co-founded Hyperfusion.ai, a bio-informatics company focused on using artificial intelligence in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Floris held multiple roles within the company, including being a Medical Data Scientist and DevOps Evangelist.

Before their venture into the medical field, Floris took a professional hiatus to travel by bicycle through Southern Europe, Northern Africa, and Asia.

Floris also has a strong academic background, having completed a PhD in Computer Science at Ghent University. Their research focused on network and application protocols for resource-constrained devices in RESTful environments, resulting in numerous international publications.

Earlier in their career, Floris gained experience in recruitment and ICT roles at VTK Gent vzw, where they organized job fairs, panel discussions, and managed the ICT infrastructure. Floris also worked as a Webdeveloper at FluidDA nv, Asoreco, and Ghent University.

Overall, Floris Van den Abeele has a diverse range of experiences in machine learning operations, entrepreneurship, software engineering, medical data science, academic research, travel, and ICT.

Floris Van den Abeele has an extensive education history in the field of Computer Science. Floris obtained a Doctor of Computer Science Engineering (PhD) degree from Ghent University, graduating in 2017. Prior to their PhD, they completed a Master of Science (MSc) degree and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree, both in Computer Science, from Ghent University in 2012 and 2010 respectively.

Earlier in their academic journey, Floris attended Don Boscocollege Zwijnaarde from 2001 to 2007, where they pursued studies in the Science-Math field. Additionally, Floris has obtained several certifications related to Machine Learning and Neural Networks from Coursera in January 2019.