profile: sobhaan

About

I'm an AI engineer and researcher based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Currently at KPMG, I build AI-powered solutions ranging from healthcare AI assistants to global research platforms. My background spans computer vision, human-robot interaction, NLP, and full-stack development.

My research at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam focused on sports analytics with computer vision and social robots in healthcare and education. I hold an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from VU Amsterdam and a B.Sc. in AI from the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

track: professional

Experience

2025 – Present

AI Engineer & Full-Stack Developer

KPMG

Working on two projects: a global health research platform (Node.js, Playwright, Azure DevOps) and a hospital AI patient-assistant avatar (Microsoft Foundry, React).

Oct 2024 – Aug 2025

Research Assistant

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The Dream Robot project: experiment design and AlphaMini behavior coding (Alpha SDK) for a social robot designed to deliver guided medical hypnosis to children during invasive procedures in pediatric hospitals.

Oct 2023 – Jul 2024

Research Assistant

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The Robot Bookworm project: a personalized AI reading robot using NAO. Contributed across the lifecycle (experiment design, dialogue pipeline, recruitment, data collection, qualitative + statistical analysis). The study showed significantly stronger book-related engagement and reader-book relatedness in the personalized condition.

Mar 2023 – Present

Founder / Owner

Launched and manage an e-commerce platform specializing in traditional Pakistani clothing in the Netherlands.

Nov 2022 – Jul 2023

WRApp Management

Tata Steel (via Ivy Global)

Managed WRApp, a workflow management application, improving efficiency across departments. Experience with Azure DevOps environment.

timeline: academic

Education

2023 – 2025

M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Thesis: Real-time detection and tracking in sports analytics using computer vision. Research at the Sports Intelligence Lab and Theoretical Computer Science group. Published at ACM MMSports '25 and ACM/IEEE HRI '26. Minor in Entrepreneurship (2022–2023).

2020 – 2023

B.Sc. Artificial Intelligence

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Thesis: bird's-eye-view transformation for a cyclist navigation app at Saivvy. Built a drone-captured BEV dataset and benchmarked Segformer, FCN, and PointRend on a 7-class urban segmentation task.

capabilities: detected

Skills

ML and AI
PyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnCUDAXGBoostLightGBMSHAPReinforcement LearningEvolutionary Computing (CMA-ES)
Computer Vision
OpenCVYOLONorfairObject DetectionTrackingImage SegmentationPose EstimationnnU-Net
NLP and LLMs
BERTTransformersGPT-4oWhisperLLMsLM StudioLanguage ModelingText Classification
Languages
PythonTypeScriptC++RJavaProlog
Web and Full-Stack
Node.jsReactFastAPIFlaskPlaywrightE2E Testing
Tools and Infra
GitDockerAzure DevOpsJupyterMicrosoft FoundryHPC / SLURM
Robotics and HRI
NAO Robot (NAOqi SDK)AlphaMini Robot (Alpha SDK)ROSCoppeliaSimHRIDialogue DesignWizard-of-Oz
Data and Analytics
PandasNumPyMatplotlibSeabornvectorbtStatistical Analysis
credentials: verified

Certifications

AI-102: Azure AI Engineer AssociateMicrosoft
Google Digital Marketing CertificateGoogle
International Baccalaureate CertificateIB Organisation
Pre-University Education (VWO) DiplomaNetherlands

Languages

EnglishFull Professional
DutchNative / Bilingual
UrduLimited Working
contact: channels

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