CV - Stijn van der Pas

GPU-Accelerated Truck Planning System

Nov 2025 - Present

Move Intermodal

Development of advanced optimization system for intermodal truck planning using NVIDIA cuOpt API
Developed system managing complex constraints including ADR certification, language requirements, and driver qualifications for transport operations across Northwest Europe

Plant Root Analyzer System

November 2024 - January 2025 | May 2025 - June 2025

NPEC (Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre)

Developed computer vision system with U-Net model achieving an 11% SMAPE score for root length predictions
Set up Azure infrastructure with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and data processing with 24/7 availability
Developed automated data pipelines in Azure for image analysis, data transformation and integration with robotic feeding system

Multimodal Emotion Analysis Pipeline

Feb 2025 - Apr 2025

Content Intelligence Agency

Built complete NLP pipeline for emotion detection in Dutch videos with automatic transcription (Whisper)
Achieved 85% F1-score with RobBERT emotion classification model on 4000+ manually labeled training data
Implemented data augmentation via Dutch WordNet for rare emotion categories

Chatbot Consumer Satisfaction Research

Sept 2024 - Nov 2024

Digiwerkplaats

Conducted mixed-methods research with 178 survey respondents and 7 interviews on success factors of chatbots in SMEs
All four hypotheses statistically confirmed; information quality emerged as main driver (influence score 85/100)
Delivered professional policy paper and research poster with concrete implementation recommendations

Weather Shield Breda - Traffic Incident Prediction

May 2023 - July 2023

ANWB

Developed LSTM model for traffic incident prediction based on weather data with 92% accuracy
Built complete Streamlit web application with PostgreSQL database and real-time weather data API integration
Identified statistically significant correlations between weather patterns and incident types

Bird Identification App

Feb 2023 - Apr 2023

School Project

Developed computer vision system with MobileNet transfer learning for classification of 7 Dutch bird species
Achieved 95% test accuracy with consistently high scores (92-98% precision, 92-100% recall) across all species
Developed complete Figma prototype with camera interface, spotting hotspots map, and species directory

NAC Breda Player Value System

Nov 2022 - Jan 2023

NAC Breda

Developed machine learning system for market value prediction of 14,445 professional footballers from 41 competitions
RandomForest model with position-specific feature engineering achieved 76% accuracy for goalkeepers
Conducted systematic comparison of 6+ ML algorithms with RFECV feature selection

Power BI Dashboard

Sept 2022 - Oct 2023

School Project

Developed a data-driven research question linked to a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and collected relevant datasets for analysis
Analyzed and visualized sustainability trends and indicators in Power BI to provide insights into progress toward the selected SDG
Created an interactive Power BI dashboard with data visualizations presenting policy-relevant insights for end users

Stijn van der Pas