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AI & ML Engineer | PhD Candidate in AI for Cancer Detection via Liquid Biopsies

Profile Summary

AI & machine learning specialist in healthcare genomics, focused on early cancer detection from liquid biopsy (cell-free DNA). PhD candidate at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and TU Delft, developing deep learning methods for fragmentomics and methylation-based detection, with a focus on ovarian cancer. I support biotech, medtech, and research teams by turning complex biomedical data into reliable ML models and actionable insights. Typical projects include cfDNA analysis, biomarker discovery, model development and validation, multimodal data integration, statistical analysis, and scientific writing support. In parallel, I build production AI systems as a freelance engineer: RAG pipelines, intelligent agents, and automated analytics platforms for healthcare and life science clients. I bring academic rigor and the engineering discipline to ship working solutions.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Computational Biology
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Computer Simulation/Computational Modeling
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Data Exploration
• ☆ Cluster Analysis
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Big Data Analytics
• ☆ Machine Learning
• ☆ Text Mining & Analytics
• ☆ Natural Language Processing
• ☆ Neural Networks
• ☆ Pattern Recognition
• ☆ Artificial Intelligence
• ☆ Deep Learning
• ☆ Business Analytics
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ Gene & Protein Expression Analysis
• ☆ Python
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ R
• ☆ Scikit-learn
• ☆ Women's Health
• ☆ Ovarian Cancer
• ☆ Biopsy

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Medical Writing, Technical Writing

Research Technology Scouting, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Healthcare Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design-ML, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Work Experience

PhD candidate

Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)

November 2020 - November 2025

Education

Masters in Chemical Engineering

Delft University of Technology

September 2018 - August 2020

Biopharmaceutial sciences

Universiteit Leiden

September 2013 - May 2017

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Duco H K Gaillard, Pien Lof, Erik A Sistermans, Tom Mokveld, Hugo Mark Horlings, Constantijne H Mom, Marcel J T Reinders, Frédéric Amant, Daan van den Broek, Lodewyk F A Wessels, et al. (2024). Evaluating the effectiveness of pre-operative diagnosis of ovarian cancer using minimally invasive liquid biopsies by combining serum human epididymis protein 4 and cell-free DNA in patients with an ovarian mass . International Journal of Gynecological Cancer.