Welcome

Welcome to the website of Judith van Stegeren. I am a Dutch computer scientist with a PhD in natural language generation for video games. I live in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Datakami is the name of my software engineering company. We specialize in generative AI expertise for startups.

Photo: Annelies van Nuland

I have a ton of interests and occassionally write long-form content about this, which you can read on my blog. I also give talks at conferences and other gatherings, and have published multiple peer-reviewed scientific papers. Sometimes journalists call me for expert commentary on generative AI. You can find more about my talks, publications, and media appearances on my research page.

Latest posts

• 2024-09-02 / How-to
  New blogpost: How to install Herrie on Arch Linux
• 2023-06-01 / Career, How-to
  New blogpost: Job hunting tips for people in tech
• 2023-01-10 / Finance, Video games
  New blogpost: Stock market games: Neopets

Latest news

• 2025-01-19 / media
  

  I was a guest at the Dutch tech radio show BNR Digitaal. Episode link. Blogpost. YouTube video.

  

  The stock market, the tech world, and politics were all captivated by DeepSeek from China this week. And not without reason, as the new and impressive 'reasoning' model was reportedly developed at minimal cost. In this episode of BNR Digitaal, Joe van Burik and Ben van der Burg dissect the hype. What makes DeepSeek R1 so special? And is the crash on the American stock market justified?

  It's remarkable: a relatively small AI company shaking the entire tech world to its core. DeepSeek, in fact, originated from a Chinese hedge fund. How was this company able to achieve such a technological breakthrough? And what are the special inventions they've made in China?

• 2024-11-07 / event
  

  I was part of the matchmaking track at the AI Summit Brainport in Eindhoven.

  

• 2024-10-12 / media
  

  Met Nerds Om Tafel released a video of our episode.

• 2024-10-10 / media
  

  I was a guest at the Dutch tech podcast Met Nerds Om Tafel. Episode link.

  
• 2024-09-02 / How-to
  New blogpost: How to install Herrie on Arch Linux
• 2024-06-27 / research
  

  Hurray, I got an email from Google Scholar today that my publications have been cited 100 times!

  
• 2024-05-01 / company
  

  It's exactly one year ago that I started working at Datakami fulltime. 🎉 We celebrated with our awesome engineers at Barkade in Den Bosch.

• 2024-04-16 / event
  

  I joined OostNL's AI diner pensant, hosted by Nedap in Groenlo. This event was the second in a series of meetings, the insights of which will be bundled in a report with recommendations for the Dutch government.