Ruben studied engineering science at KU Leuven in Belgium and continued to do a PhD there at the department of computer science. He wrote his dissertation about relational structure in training objectives for deep learning methods. Much of his work initially concerned natural language understanding, but he got interested in and started to work on applying AI to Earth Observation data in the hope to better understand our Earth and to create a positive impact. In his free time Ruben can be found running or swimming, in the mountains for hiking, going out with friends, cooking or reading novels or philosophy.
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