Jochem Kuijpers

Based on my Master's thesis at TU/e, this industrial track paper presented at EDBT 2021 summarizes the work done with Neo4j to bring path indexing to their industry-leading graph database. The full paper is published on Open Proceedings.

EDBT 2021 is the 24th International Conference on Extending Database Technology.

I help moderate a Discord community of over 1000 members, providing and inclusive and welcoming space for people to hang out and play games together.

... And for some reason, discuss linguistics, like literally every day.

I presented an experimental study at SSDBM'19 based on my research internship at Neo4j in 2018. The full paper is published by ACM in their Digital Library.

SSDBM'19 is the 31st International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management.

I integrated a new type of index into the Neo4j query pipeline. This change affected the full query pipeline; query planning, query execution and transaction processing (index maintenance).

I also looked into which type of query and data patterns best benefited this type of index to speed up query performance and found some useful heuristics for finding use-cases that can be sped-up with this index.

I presented a summary of the findings of my research internship at Neo4j in 2018 at the 5th openCypher Implementers Meeting.

An experimental study on querying recursive (context-free) path patterns in graph databases. I examined existing literature, built a prototype, ran experiments, evaluated performance and presented the results in a final report.

This internship was done with supervisors from both Neo4j and Eindhoven University of Technology.

This study was expanded and published in SSDBM'19 in July 2019.

Courses include:

• Advanced, Geographic and Geometric Algorithms (three separate courses)
• Database Technology
• Data Engineering
• Visualization
• Simulation in Computer Graphics
• Foundations of Data Mining

I graduated at the Database Group. My thesis project was completed in collaboration with Neo4j.

I received study credits for an internship abroad at Neo4j in Malmö, Sweden.

I helped this legal services start-up launch their product.

I built a responsive front-end website on modern web technologies using Angular/TypeScript and connected it to a backend system using a RESTful API.

I worked extensively with NPM, Docker, MariaDB/MySQL, PHP7, nginx and git.

The company does not exist anymore.

I helped Telegram users with their questions regarding the app and platform. This included troubleshooting and triaging bug reports and feature requests, and escalating relevant issues to the appropriate internal teams.

I also suggested new ideas for the platform and made an early Android prototype for user-configurable themes, which led to the feature being implemented across all official apps.

I maintained administrative tools (Delphi) and various websites (PHP) as a freelance programmer with a small team of other students. I also used MySQL and SVN.

The website has been re-designed since I have worked on it.

Elective courses:

• Computer Graphics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Human Technology Interaction
• Web Technology
• Web Analytics

Minor in Security:

• Legal and Technical aspects of IST
• Algebra for Security
• Introduction to Cryptology

My major is called Software Science and has emphasis on theoretical computer science and software engineering.

Full-time summer job for about 4-6 weeks each year, as an order picker in a semi-automated industrial electronics warehouse.

Elective subjects:

• Economics
• Advanced Mathematics ('Wiskunde D')