Awards

• April 2024 - Rising Talent Grant from the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences of Maastricht University.
• November 2023 - Top Reviewer for NeurIPS 2023.
• August 2023 - Outstanding Reviewer for 2022 (IEEE Transactions on Games).
• April 2023 - Notable Reviewer for ICLR 2023.
• July 2022 - Outstanding Reviewer (Top 10%) for ICML 2022.
• May 2022 - Highlighted Reviewer for ICLR 2022.
• May 2021 - Outstanding Reviewer for ICLR 2021.
• August 2019 - Runner up Best Paper Award at IEEE COG 2019 for the paper “Learning Policies from Self-Play with Policy Gradients and MCTS Value Estimates”.
• February 2017 - Best Master’s thesis award from the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences of Maastricht University.
• September 2016 - Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE CIG 2016 conference with the paper “Enhancements for Real-Time Monte-Carlo Tree Search in General Video Game Playing”.
• September 2016 - Winner of the GVGAI Single Player Championship 2016.
• July 2016 - Graduated M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence with distinction “Summa Cum Laude”.