Leon Overweel
Hi, I'm Leon! I'm a machine learning engineer at Dexter Energy, working on forecasting renewable (solar/wind) electricity generation. Previously I was at Plumerai, researching binarized neural networks and working on Larq. Before that, I studied computer science at TU Delft (BSc) and artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh (MSc).
Use the links below to contact me in English or Dutch, or check out the rest of this site for my current projects, past projects, skills, and photography.
Current Projects ✨
Here's what I'm working on, mostly in the form of side projects.
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Past Projects ⏳
These are some projects I've done in the past, that are either finished or no longer active. There are 1 projects, which broadly fall into categories like Web, Robot, Machine learning, Video, Hackathon, and Rowing.
- Reinforcement Learning Soccer BotsMachine learningImplemented and tuned eight different reinforcement learning algorithms to play a simple soccer game.
- Reinforcement Learning for Text GamesMachine learningExperimented with several approaches to encourage exploration for a reinforcement learning agent trained to play text-based games in the TextWorld environment.
- Neural Machine Translation with Lexical ModelMachine learningAnalyzed a neural machine translation architecture, and implemented and evaluated a lexical model on top of it.
- Exploration of Convolutional Neural Network ArchitecturesMachine learningImplemented convolutional and max-pooling layers of a convolutional neural network and experimented with different network architectures on the EMNIST handwritten character recognition task.
- Modeling Train Commuter Stress for Dutch CitiesWebScraped data about the Dutch rail network to visualize which cities provide the least stressful commute to Amsterdam central station.
- Exploration of Neural Network Learning Algorithms and RegularizationMachine learningImplemented and experimented with different learning rules, learning rate schedules, and regularization techniques to train a convolutional neural network for the EMNIST handwritten character recognition task.
- Ringvaart: Keihard voor KiKaRowingFormed a crew with three friends, learned to row, and rowed the 2018 Ringvaart, a 100-kilometer race in which we raised money for child cancer research.
- HackDelftHackathonI co-founded and organized the first edition of HackDelft, TU Delft's hackathon.
- Dutch Hackathon ListWebCollaboratively building the most comprehensive list of annual hackathons in the Netherlands at hackathonlist.nl
Skills 🛠
Here are some of the things I have experience with. Each category is sorted by how many projects I've used the skill for, and each skill links to related projects.
Programming languages: Python (15) CSS (8) HTML (8) JavaScript (6) RobotC (4) Assembly (1) C++ (1) Java (1)
Technical tools: Git (11) GitHub (11) Google App Engine (8) LEGO Mindstorms (2) Arduino (1) Blockchain (1) Firebase (1) Flask (1) GitHub Pages (1) Qt (1) Robot Operating System (1)
Machine learning packages: NumPy (6) Matplotlib (5) PyTorch (3) Plotly (1) SciPy (1)
Machine learning models: Convolutional Neural Network (2) Deep Q Network (2) Long Short Term Memory (2)
Web APIs: Reddit (1) Spotify (1)
Creative + video skills: Cinematography (4) Directing (3) Editing (3) Vegas Pro (3) Event Planning (2) Producing (1)
Photography 📸
These are some of my favorite photo's I've taken over the years, mostly on family vacations with my Canon EOS 60D digital SLR.
You can see more of my photos on my Unsplash profile.