Description

I help organizations deploy AI systems that are reliable, safe, and regulation-ready. My focus is LLM evaluation, red teaming, RAG architecture, and EU AI Act compliance — typically through embedded engagements within product and engineering teams.

Most recently, I owned the red teaming and guardrailing strategy for LLM-based assistants at a major European bank, designing the evaluation pipelines that drove go/no-go production decisions. Before that, I spent seven years at Fraunhofer IAIS leading applied NLP research and client-facing projects across finance, legal, and automotive — bridging academic research and enterprise delivery. Earlier in my career, I deployed fraud prevention systems at European banks as a technical consultant.

PhD in Computer Science (explainable AI), published at ACM SIGIR, and fluent in five European languages. Based in Brussels, available across the EU.

Languages

Spanish
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
German
Fluent
French
Fluent
Dutch
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Brussels (up to 50km)

BNP Paribas Fortis
Senior AI Data Scientist
BANKING AND INSURANCE
November 2023 - Today (2 years and 7 months)
Brussels, Belgium
○ Owned the red-teaming, guardrails, and evaluation strategy for LLM-based assistants deployed across the bank.
○ Designed and implemented evaluation pipelines for RAG systems (retrievers, rankers, generators), supporting go/no-go production readiness decisions for enterprise deployments.
○ Contributed to the delivery of a client-facing chatbot integrated in the mobile banking app, as well as a RAG-based internal assistant grounded in bank documentation.
○ Served as a trusted advisor to product owners and business stakeholders, aligning AI capabilities with compliance and risk requirements.
○ Engagement spanned multiple product teams and senior stakeholders across engineering, security, architecture, and external partners.
LLM RAG Python Data science PostgreSQL
Fraunhofer IAIS
AI Research Scientist & Project Lead
RESEARCH
October 2016 - October 2023 (7 years)
Sankt Augustin, Germany
○ Conducted applied R&D in NLP and information retrieval; contributed to publications at ACM SIGIR and other peer-reviewed venues.
○ Led client-facing workshops for requirement gathering, technical alignment, and use-case scoping with industry
partners across finance, legal, automotive, and HR sectors.
○ Estimated project effort and resource requirements as part of presales activities, supporting proposal development and budgeting.
○ Translated state-of-the-art research into deployable ML solutions, including retrieval models and end-to-end document processing pipelines.
○ Supervised Master's students and collaborated with external researchers.
NLP Data science Machine learning Deep Learning Prototype
INFORM GmbH
Technical Consultant — Fraud Prevention
DIGITAL AND IT
January 2013 - September 2015 (2 years and 8 months)
Aachen, Germany
○ Deployed the RiskShield expert system for real-time fraud prevention at European banks and card processors.
○ Led on-site client workshops across Europe (30–60% travel), acting as the interface between fraud experts and engineering teams.
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PhD
University of Bonn
2023
Computer Science - Thesis on "Explainable resource-aware representation learning via semantic similarity"
MSc
KU Leuven
2016
MSc Artificial Intelligence