Hi there 👋

My name is Niels, I'm 25 years old and I live in Belgium.

I'm currently working as an ML engineer @ 🤗 HuggingFace, where I'm part of the Open-Source team.

I work on HuggingFace Transformers, a Python library implementing several state-of-the-art AI algorithms, all based on the original Transformer by Google.

I love making AI more accessible to anyone. So far, I've contributed the following algorithms to HuggingFace Transformers:

• TAPAS, by Google AI
• ViT, by Google AI
• DEiT, by Facebook AI
• DETR, by Facebook AI
• BEiT, by Microsoft Research
• CANINE, by Google AI
• LUKE, by Studio Ousia
• LayoutLMv2 and LayoutXLM, by Microsoft Research
• DINO, by Facebook AI
• TrOCR, by Microsoft Research
• SegFormer, by NVIDIA
• ImageGPT, by OpenAI
• Perceiver/Perceiver IO, by Deepmind
• MAE, by Facebook AI
• ViLT, by NAVER AI Lab
• ConvNeXT, by Facebook AI
• DiT, by Microsoft Research
• GLPN, by KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
• DPT, by Intel Labs

Besides that, I help others add models to the library, including:

• Swin Transformer, by Microsoft Research
• mLUKE, by Studio Ousia
• Nyströmformer, by University of Wisconsin-Madison
• YOSO, by University of Wisconsin-Madison
• PoolFormer, by Sea AI Lab

I'm mostly working with PyTorch. For IDEs, I work with Visual Studio Code and Google Colab. It's all you need.

I learned everything about deep learning through self-study, mainly thanks to Andrej Karpathy's cs231n course at Stanford University (lectures are free on Youtube and assigment solutions can be found on Github).