About me
Hello, my name is Sander! 
I am currently doing an industrial Ph.D. in computer science while working as a data scientist at Silverfin. I am associated with the Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis research group (AIDA) of Ghent University. Currently, I am focused on the use of machine learning for company benchmarking, which allows Silverfin to quantify the similarity between companies.
Besides my focus on company benchmarking, I am also interested in graph machine learning and private machine learning.
Blog Posts
- An Introduction into Local Differential Privacy
- An Earth Mover’s Distance Based Graph Distance Metric For Financial Statements
- Unlocking the Power of GPT-4 for Automated Financial Analysis with Silverfin
- Silverfin vaart de toekomst tegemoet (DUTCH)
Teaching Experience and Followed Courses
- Teaching Assistant: Uncertainty Modelling and Systems Science, Ghent University, 2021
- Followed Course: Recommender Systems, Ghent University, 2021
- Followed Course: Natural Language Processing, Ghent University, 2022
- Followed Course: AI Research Seminar, Ghent University, 2022
Attended Conferences and Summer Schools
- IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics (CIFEr), 2022
- Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), 2022
- Oxford Machine Learning Summer School MLxFinance/NLP (OxML), 2023
- Oxford Machine Learning Summer School MLx Representation Learning & Generative AI (OxML), 2024
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024