Work experience

• 2018–nowPhD-researcher and teaching assistantDepartment of Applied mathematics, Computer science and Statistics - Ghent University
  • Guiding students with their bachelor's and master's thesis.
  • Developing and guiding of exercises for three Scientific Computing courses.
  • Assisting a Python-programming course for all sciences students.
  • Outreach for the mathematics program.
• 2018Data engineer - Summer internshipKBC - Data Intelligence Services, Leuven
  • Researching how MLflow can be used within machine learning projects.
• 2017Data scientist - Internship and student jobYazzoom - Ghent
  • Automatic pattern recognition in logging data.
• 2015–2017Assisting during summer course - Student jobGhent University
  • Assisting during the summer course mathematics for first year students.
• 2012–2014Frontend developer - Student jobBlue Cherry - Antwerp
  • Implementing website designs into HTML and CSS.

Education

• 2018–2023Doctor of Science: Mathematics - Algorithms for time-independent Schrödinger equationsDepartment of Applied mathematics, Computer science and Statistics - Ghent University
  • Developing accurate algorithms and efficient C++ programs for Schrödinger equations.
  • Building a user-friendly Python-interface.
• 2016–2018Master of Science: Mathematics - major Applied Mathematics and Computer ScienceGhent University
• 2013–2016Bachelor of Science: MathematicsGhent University

Extracurriculars

• 2018–nowOutreach and popularizing mathematics
  • 2022-2023: Five posters and interactive visualizations of fractals for Imaginary.
  • 2019-2022: Three poster images for VWO.
  • Yearly science festival at Ghent University.
    • 2020: Simulating the world - An online interactive presentation about (partial) differential equations.
    • 2019: Hyperbolic geometry in VR - Workshop and talk about hyperbolic geometry and VR.
  • 2019: Pint of science: Art in mathematics - Unexpected beauty in root finding algorithms.
• 2020–nowFaculty board memberFaculty of Sciences - Ghent University
• 2014–2018Student representativeGhent University
• 2009–nowParticipating in math and programming competitions
  • Three times second place in the Flemish Programming Competition (VPW).
  • Twice the top team from Ghent in the Google Hash Code.
  • Second round of the Google Code Jam.
  • Third prize at the International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC).
  • Three times finalist at the Cyber Security Challenge Belgium.
  • Bronze medal at the Benelux Mathematical Olympiad (BxMO).
  • Three times finalist at the Flemish Mathematics Olympiad (VWO).
• More than 350 problems solved on Project EulerProjectEuler.net
• Open-source contributions
  • 0 A. D.: Real-time strategy game in C++ and JavaScript.
  • Jupyter Notebook: Web application for creating computational documents.
  • Chalk: JavaScript library for terminal string styling.
  • jupyterlab-execute-time: Plug-in for JupyterLab to display cell timings.
  • pyuff: Universal file format reader and writer in Python.
  • MLflow: A machine learning lifecycle platform.

Publications

• 2021The fast and accurate computation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of time-independent one-dimensional Schrödinger equations.Baeyens, T., & Van Daele, M.Physics Communications, 258, 107568.
• 2022Improvements to the computation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of two-dimensional Schrödinger equations by constant perturbation based algorithms.Baeyens, T., & Van Daele, M.Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 412, 114292.
• 2022Dolos: Language-agnostic plagiarism detection in source code.Maertens, R., Van Petegem, C., Strijbol, N., Baeyens, T., Jacobs, A. C., Dawyndt, P., & Mesuere, B.Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 38(4), 1046-1061.

Active research projects

• Strands: new efficient technique for solving time-independent two-dimensional Schrödinger equations accurately.Baeyens, T., & Van Daele, M.
• Determining indices of eigenvalues of linear self-adjoint elliptic operators on bounded Lipschitz domains.Baeyens, T., Van Daele, M., & Vernaeve, H.
• Local Lyapunov exponents, spiking and bistability in SEIR and SEIRS models for COVID-19Baeyens, T., Govaerts, W., Van Daele, M., & Vanden Bussche, C.
• Quantifying temporal and spatial variability in light availability in agroforestry systemsCoudron, W., Baeyens, T., Lootens, P., Pardon, P., Reubens, B., Van Den Berge, S., De Frenne, P., Verheyen, K., & De Swaef, T.