Emma Hokken

Student MSc Artificial Intelligence

About Me

People describe me as open, hardworking, customer friendly, and even under pressure I continue to perform well. I like working with other people and to reach great results. However, I am also able to work efficiently on my own. I’m flexible and I easily adjust to changing circumstances.

Within AI, I am interested in deep learning, computer vision, evolutionary computing, and natural language processing.

Education

University of Amsterdam

MSc Artificial Intelligence

September 2018 - present

Courses on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Evolutionary Computing, Computational Biology

University of Amsterdam

Minor Amsterdam Data Science

September 2017

Programming and data wrangling in Python and R

University of Amsterdam

Minor Programming

February 2017 - June 2017

Programming in C, Python, and Swift (native iOS apps) Programming theory: introduction to various algorithms such as hill climbers, simulated annealing, evolutionary computing.

University of Edinburgh

Erasmus Exchange, Psychology

September 2016 - December 2016

Courses on (Neuro) Psychology and Scottish Gaelic Language

University of Amsterdam

BSc Psychology

September 2013 - June 2016

Specialisation: Brain and Cognition Bachelor thesis: The relationship between expecting emotions and perceiving emotions based on EEG data

Montessori Lyceum Flevoland

VWO High School Diploma

September 2007 - June 2013

Profile: Economics and Society & Culture and Society Maths, English, Dutch, French, Economics. Geography, History, Art History

Experience

Minor Prgramming, University of Amsterdam

mprog.nl

Teaching Assistant

September 2017 - present

6-month minor teaching students how to program in C, Python, Swift, JavaScript, and HTML.
Answering students’ questions, grading students’ weekly assignments and exams.
Attending conferences on teaching: Apple Swift Educator Summit 2018.

ViriCiti

viriciti.com

Intern

June 2019

Internship as part of one of the courses of the Master Artificial Intelligence.
Project on Short-term Urban Traffic Flow Prediction: Predicting the speed of a bus based on previous speed data, weather, and road conditions.

Province of Utrecht

provincie-utrecht.nl

Junior Project Employee Workplace Management ICT

November 2017 - January 2018

Updating internal websites, transcribing weekly meetings, further ICT support to employees.

Ctaste

ctaste.com

Waitress

November 2014 - February 2018

Restaurant where guests eat in complete darkness.
Duties included: serving food, table planning, bar duties.

International Camp on Computers and Communication

icc-camp.info

Volunteer

July 2015

Camp for visually impaired people, following workshops on all different topics from computer science to learning about other cultures.
Tasks included: organising evening activities, assisting during workshops, accompanying participants to workshops, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Technical Skills

Expert:
Python, Swift

Advanced:
PyTorch, Git, C, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, MATLAB

Intermediate:
SQL, Django, Java, Mathematica

A Little More About Me

I enjoy rock climbing even though I’m slightly afraid of heights. I also enjoy making music, having tried a large number of instruments (from piano to bagpipes). Besides that, I like reading and playing board games.