Marek Oerlemans
Find out about my work
My name is Marek and I do deep learning for cancer risk prediction. My main interests are in (stochastic) optimization and representational learning with applications in classification and segmentation. Also check out the website of the AI for Oncology group I’m part of at the Netherlands Cancer Institute: aiforoncology.nl
Contact
If you have any interest or ideas relating to my work or my interests feel free to reach out to me.
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Blog
Occasionally, if I find something interesting to write about such as my work as a PhD student or mathematical facts I found out I’ll post them here.
- On the equivalence of C-index and AUROC — February 2025
Experience
My main work is in Python, specifically Pytorch. I’m an admin of our Slurm GPU cluster. I have been speaking Dutch for the past ~27 years and speak some English and German as well. My Duolingo streak on Italian is over 450 days at the moment of writing. My professional experience included internships and part-time jobs as a deep learning engineer at a start-up, quantitative financial researcher at a pension fund, and a mathematics tutor for pre-university students.
Education
| When | What and Where | Specifics |
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| 2022 - present | PhD student at The Netherlands Cancer Institute and Leiden University. | Using deep learning on histology scans to do risk prediction in ductal carcinoma in situ. |
| 2020 - 2022 | MSc Applied Mathematics at Delft University of Technology. | Specifically focusing on numerical mathematics. |
| 2019 - 2021 | MSc Econometrics: Quantitative Finance at Erasmus University Rotterdam. | |
| 2016 - 2019 | BSc Econometrics and Operations Research at Erasmus University Rotterdam. |
Publications and other publicly available work
Well…. This is were I’d put my publications if I had any 😜
Personal
In my free time I’m an avid cyclist, mountainbiker, and runner. I also like to visit the mountains (although we do not have those in The Netherlands) to climb, hike, and ski. When I’m sitting down I like to read books about chess and economics. I used to live in Rotterdam, now I live in Utrecht.