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I'm Tim J. Schoonbeek

Applied AI Scientist at Ocuma | Computer Vision & Machine Learning

About Me

I am Tim, an Applied AI Scientist at Ocuma, developing computer vision for drowning detection to help protect swimmers in swimming pools. My work focuses on reliable AI for safety-critical applications, from selecting informative training data to improving detection. I earned my PhD at TU/e in November 2025, with research at ASML on procedure understanding, computer vision, and augmented reality. My research experience also includes Microsoft and Honda.

Outside the lab, I am usually on (or tinkering with) a motorcycle, traveling, or learning Portuguese.

Computer VisionMachine LearningAI for ManufacturingAugmented RealityHuman-Computer InteractionVideo UnderstandingSemi-Supervised LearningDomain AdaptationImbalanced ClassificationFoundation Models

Experience

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Applied AI Scientist

Ocuma, Eindhoven

Jan. 2026 - Present
  • Leading R&D on safety-critical AI for drowning detection in swimming pools, helping protect swimmers
  • Detection performance: Improved recall by 88.5% at a fixed false-positive rate within the first six months
  • Training data selection: Built a pipeline that evaluates millions of images and selects the most informative using disagreement and anomaly detection
  • Camera calibration: Developed an automated calibration method for swimming pools to determine swimmer location and speed
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PhD Researcher

ASML Research, Eindhoven

Sept. 2021 - Nov. 2025
  • PhD project on automatic extraction of relevant and meaningful information from procedural actions within an industrial setting
  • Filed patents, published peer-reviewed articles, and contributed to the ASML Technology Conference, the world's largest developer event
  • Held lectures on efficient video recognition and supervised three graduate students' thesis projects
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Research Intern

Microsoft Research, Redmond

June 2025 - Sept. 2025
  • Research group: Interactive Multimodal AI Systems
  • Developing real-time multimodal systems with LLM-powered perception to create benchmarks for situated intelligence for task assistance
  • Building models of social cues (turn-taking, engagement, attention) from large datasets while collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams
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Internship

Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Frankfurt

Mar. 2020 - July 2020
  • Interaction-Aware Trajectory Prediction Using Graph Neural Networks
  • Researched spatio-temporal graph neural networks for trajectory prediction of surrounding vehicles in highway driving scenarios
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Race Engineer - Part-time (Student Team)

Automotive Technology InMotion, Helmond

Sept. 2018 - Sept. 2019
  • Performed and optimized drive cycle simulations for an electric endurance racing car

Education

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PhD

Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven

Sept. 2021 - Nov. 2025
  • PhD degree awarded in November 2025
  • Title: Advanced Augmented Reality Solutions for AI-based Servitization
  • Electrical Engineering Faculty
  • Doctoral project funded by ASML on industrial procedure understanding using computer vision and machine learning algorithms
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Visiting Researcher

University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Oct. 2024 - April 2025
  • Conducted research on enhancing human-robot interaction, focusing on AI systems to assist industrial operators in procedure execution
  • Designed computer vision algorithms for quality inspection and AR support systems; conducted user studies with AR glasses
  • Reached the finals (top 2.5%) in the OxBridge AI Startup Challenge, a competition between students from Cambridge and Oxford
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Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence

International Summer School, Matera

July 2023
  • Completed courses on the intersection of AI & extended reality (XR) from Prof. Rita Cucchiara and Prof. Joaquim Jorge, amongst others
  • Pro-actively took up the role as a link between the programmers and designers in a multidisciplinary project, besides my technical roles
  • Won the best project award for our work on an XR app for engagement with cultural heritage
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M.Sc. in Automotive Engineering

Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven

Feb. 2019 - May 2021
  • Specialization: Mobile Perception Systems
  • Earned the cum laude honours distinction for a 4.0 GPA (8.5/10)
  • Master thesis 'Learning to Predict Collision Risk from Simulated Optical Flow' awarded a 9.0/10.0
  • Published paper, singled out among the top 5% of submissions for oral presentation at the 2022 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium
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B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering

Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven

Sept. 2015 - Feb. 2019
  • Automotive Track
  • Bachelor thesis on depth estimation from disparity and segmented images awarded a 8.5/10

Publications