Tijmen Tieleman's Curriculum Vitae

Education

• September 2005 - November 2012, estimated: PhD at the University of Toronto, department of computer science, in the machine learning group, under supervision by Geoff Hinton.
  • Selected courses, graduate level, besides machine learning: probability theory, theory of logic and computation, programming graphics cards for scientific computation.
• September 2002 - May 2005: BA at University College Utrecht, Utrecht University. Specializations: psychology, anthropology, mathematics.
• January 2004 - May 2004: One semester on exchange at the University of California, Berkeley, mostly in its department of computer science.
• September 1996 - June 2002. Secondary education: Christelijk Gymnasium, in Utrecht. Specializations: mathematics, physics, chemistry.

Work experience

• September 2005 - present: Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Toronto.
  • Research:
    • Research in machine learning (a discipline within artificial intelligence).
    • Several peer-reviewed published papers.
    • Public speaking experiece (presenting scientific findings to experts).
  • Teaching:
    • Extensive experience teaching one-on-one and in small groups. Some experience teaching groups of roughly 30 students.
    • Subjects: mostly computer programming and compute science theory, including algorithms; some specializations such as machine learning and graphics.
    • Students: mostly first and second year students; some third and fourth year students.
• November 2011 - present: private tutor for several first and second year students of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
• May - July 2007: Internship with Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA, in the TMSN group, under supervision by Chris Burges.
• November 2004 - May 2005: Teaching mathematics: helping an exam year high school student who also specializes in mathematics.
• September 2002 - May 2004: Computer programmer. Part-time, during school seasons. For Stichting Leerplan Ontwikkeling.

Other experience: Programming contests

• Several times: Dutch Olympiad in Informatics (best ranking: 2nd).
• International Olympiad in Informatics 2002, South-Korea (ranking: 44th).
• Several times: Codecup, which used to be part of the Dutch Olympiad in Informatics (best ranking: 1st).