Jan-pieter Jacobs
Patent Examiner
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJan-pieter Jacobs is a patent examiner at the European Patent Office with 16 years of experience grounded in telecommunications engineering and applied machine learning. He holds a master's in electrotechnics (telecommunications) from KU Leuven and completed a PhD focused on semi-supervised domain adaptation for classification of earth observation imagery, blending academic rigor with practical IP assessment. His career spans hands-on international development work—implementing ICT and databases for youth organizations in Bolivia—to expert analysis of complex telecom and imaging inventions. Based in The Hague, he brings a rare combination of regulatory IP expertise, research-level ML knowledge, and a sustained interest in environmentally and socially relevant technologies.
16 years of coding experience
Master, Engineering sciences: Electrotechnics, option Telecommunications and Telematics, Master, Engineering sciences: Electrotechnics, option Telecommunications and Telematics at KU LeuvenSecondary education, Mathematics - Sciences, Secondary education, Mathematics - Sciences at Sint-Jozefcollege
English, French, Dutch, German, Chinese, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (5)
telegram8
messenger8
symbolic-differentiation3
javascript1
webassembly1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jpjacobs/bib
May 2010 - Dec 2010
Contributions:35 commits in 6 months
jpjacobs/AoC
Mar 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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