Jochem Gietema
Living in London. From the Netherlands. Leading a team of ML Scientists at
Onfido
.
Research areas: LLM and VLM training and fine-tuning, efficient and on-device ML.
Reading list
Twitter
GitHub
LinkedIn
Blog
May '25 - Research notes: Mixture-of-Experts
March '25 - Research notes: dataset generation for code LLMs
February '25 - Biases in Apple's Image Playground
December '24 - Research notes: few-shot performance of vision-language models
May '24 - Research notes: scaling laws, emergent behaviour and inverse scaling
Before
Developed a data visualisation tool
Clusterfun
, which is used at multiple leading computer vision companies in Europe.
Co-authored a book about Bayesian Deep Learning -
Enhancing Deep Learning with Bayesian Inference
(Packt, 2023).
Created
a tool
to prepare for ML interviews
Worked on
document fraud detection
at scale
at Onfido, deployed to help verify the identity of more than 500K users a day (2020-2022)
Worked with Dutch municipalities to build an online module for citizens to safe energy
, helping more than 10K households to reduce their energy bills and carbon footprint (2017-2019)
Created an
early robot lawyer
(2016)
Studied Law (LLB, LLM) and Philosophy (BA) in Amsterdam (2011-2016)