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

• 2025-06-17 / How-to, Research
  New blogpost: A pragmatic method for picking PhD research projects
• 2025-06-16 / Career, How-to, Research
  New blogpost: Lessons from the first year of my PhD
• 2024-09-02 / How-to
  New blogpost: How to install Herrie on Arch Linux

Latest news

• 2025-06-21 / project
  

  I have started using Sveltia, a headless CMS, to be able to post short blogs from my mobile phone.

• 2025-06-17 / How-to, Research
  New blogpost: A pragmatic method for picking PhD research projects
• 2025-06-16 / Career, How-to, Research
  New blogpost: Lessons from the first year of my PhD
• 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