Latest projects

• Master's Project

  

  The environment is changing due to anthropogenic carbon emissions, and so is the carbon cycle regulating the exchange of CO₂ (i.e. fluxes) between the Earth’s surface and the atmosphere. Measuring these changes is difficult, as it would require enormously dense observation networks to capture the strongly heterogeneous underlying flux-landscape. Through a combination of carbon exchange (CE) models and data assimilation (DA), the CarbonTracker data assimilation shell (CTDAS) generates a flux-landscape estimate which optimally matches the available observations. The current implementation of this DA approach is static; flux-landscape estimates produced in the past are not used for estimating new flux-landscapes. However,...

• iGEM Groningen 2021: Bye-Monia

  

  In 2021, I was a part of the iGEM team of Groningen. iGEM is a global competition focusing on finding solutions to local societal problems using synthetic microbiology. For our iGEM project, our team decided to contribute to mitigating the Dutch nitrogen crisis. This crisis is a result of the Netherlands emitting too much nitrogen containing compounds into the air. Once in the air, these compounds are deposited into nature reserves where they cause eutrophication and acidification, resulting in a loss of biodiversity in these areas. Our project was eventually nominated for 5 awards, including best model and...

• Modeling 'The Resistance' using epistemic logic

  

  For the course ‘Logica Aspects of Multi-agent Systems (LAMaS)’, me and twofellow students modelled ‘The Resistance’ using epistemic logic. The Resistance is a multiplayer deductive reasoning role-playing game. Using a multi-agent based approach, we tested how the usage of higher-order knowledge could increase the win-rate of the agents. The full report and implementation are available online. The final grade for the project was a 9.

• Modeling the spread of SARS-CoV-2 within dutch public trains

  

  A lot happened in the year 2020. A massive increase in hospital admissions due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandamic put a substantial strain on the dutch healthcare system, resulting in unpresidented measures being taken to slow the spreading of the virus. One of those measures was enforced social distancing within the dutch public transport, including the train network. Me and three other students at the University of Groningen deceded to test the effectiveness of this social distancing method, and wanted to see wether we could improve upon the current strategy by implementing different seating arrangements and boarding strategies. We did...

• Bachelor's Project

  

  For my bachelors project, I used reinforcement learning to train anagent in controlling forest fires. In order to do so, me and three other students from the University of Groningen build a forest fire simulation and implemented several reinforcement learning techniques. My main contributions were the agent implementations and the connectionist monte-Carlo algorithm inplementation. The final grade awarded to this project was a 7.5.

• ProSeed Seed Selector

  

  One of my first projects was the ProSeed Seed Selector, which is a tool which allows the user to optimize the seed selection for creating hybrid pumpkin seeds. The application uses knowledge provided by organic seeds breeder “De Bolster”, to determine the phenotype of the child plant after breeding with two parents plants. The current version is a demo version based on mock data, but has been validated by an expert breeder. The program could therefore be used as a useful tool for any pumpkin breeder once real data is fed into the application. The final project was awarded with...

• First update

  This post provides the starting point of my portfolio. Project are added in chronological order, ranging from school projects, to theses and competition submissions. Each project has a small explainatory introduction explaining the premis and the used techiques.