Betty Van Aken
Senior Applied Research Scientist at Superhuman
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolBetty Van Aken is an applied research scientist and final-year PhD candidate in Informatics based in Germany, with 10 years’ experience building production-ready NLP systems and applied deep learning models. Currently at Grammarly and consulting independently, she bridges research—publishing on hate speech detection, explainability, and clinical NLP—with hands-on delivery of chatbots, job recommenders, and medical information extraction pipelines. Her software engineering roots (from mobile apps to high-traffic Spring microservices) give her a pragmatic focus on robust, user-centered solutions that scale. She also mentors teams and teaches text mining and data science, combining academic rigor with product-minded execution. An underappreciated strength is her fluency moving models from transfer-learning experiments into maintainable production code, making research directly impactful for end users.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange semester in Puebla, Mexico, Exchange semester in Puebla, Mexico at Fundación Universidad de las Américas PueblaBachelor's Degree Audiovisual Media (Audiovisuelle Medien), Bachelor's Degree Audiovisual Media (Audiovisuelle Medien) at Fachhochschule Stuttgart - Hochschule der MedienDoctoral Studies Informatics, Doctoral Studies Informatics at Leibniz Universität HannoverMaster’s Degree Media Informatics (Medieninformatik), Master’s Degree Media Informatics (Medieninformatik) at Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin (formerly Technische Fachhochschule Berlin)
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (13)
bert9
paper9
transformers7
raycast7
language-model5
api4
python3
pytorch2
transfer-learning1
gpt1
openai1
natural-language-processing1
pre-trained-model1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bvanaken/visbert
Aug 2019 - Jun 2022
VisBERT: Demo web app for "How Does BERT Answer Questions?"
Contributions:60 commits, 3 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 years 10 months
berttransformersexplainability
bvanaken/publisher-api
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
API for online user comment analysis
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 1 month
apipython
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