Ivar van der Spoel is a Dutch Computer Science master’s student at Leiden University, where he completed his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in 2024. He has a special interest in Artificial Intelligence, particularly Neural Architecture Search, deep learning, and automated machine learning, alongside a solid foundation in Advanced Computing and Systems, spanning low-level topics such as computer architecture, operating systems, and CUDA programming, to high-level topics such as distributed and cloud systems.
Ivar is currently completing his master’s thesis as a visiting researcher in collaboration with ESA Φ-lab, where he investigates robustness in Neural Architecture Search for Earth observation. His research addresses the domain gap between simulated and real-world satellite data by incorporating realistic degradations and applying multi-objective optimization to develop robust and reliable models.
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