Roel Henckaerts
Senior Data Scientist Manager Consultant
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolRoel Henckaerts is a Senior Data Scientist Manager Consultant with nine years of experience turning complex data into measurable business value across finance, insurance, real estate and heavy asset industries. He holds a PhD from KU Leuven focused on ML for insurance pricing, explainable AI and telematics, and has combined that research background with hands-on delivery of production-grade pipelines and predictive models. As a freelancer and consultant he has led cross-functional teams, mentored juniors, and built virtual-expert solutions for optimisation in mining, oil & gas and utilities, always tying technical work to financial impact. Roel is fluent in Python and R, teaches advanced analytics as a guest lecturer, and has a proven track record of translating domain problems into actionable ML solutions. Outside work he maintains an active lifestyle—an indicator of the same discipline and curiosity he applies to data challenges.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at KU LeuvenMath and Science, Math and Science at VIIO Humaniora Tongeren
Dutch, English, French, German
Github Skills (3)
surrogate8
data-driven7
machine-learning5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
henckr/sevtree
Aug 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
henckr/distRforest
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:122 commits, 120 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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