About

Hey, 👋🏼! My name is Wessel. I am currently a Research Lead for the The Alan Turing Institute. Our team’s goal is to advance environmental forecasting with end-to-end machine learning. I am also a Quantative Researcher for Cedalion Capital. Previously, I was a Senior Researcher on the AI for Science initiative at Microsoft Research Amsterdam. We developed the Aurora model and open sourced the model too.

I hold a PhD in Machine from the University of Cambridge, supervised by Dr Richard Turner, an MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence from the University of Cambridge, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delft. My curriculum vitae can be found here.

My research interests include machine learning for environmental science and forecasting, probabilistic modelling with a focus on time series, Bayesian nonparametrics with a focus on Gaussian processes, approximate inference, probabilistic programming, probability theory, and real analysis.