I obtained a Bachelor’s degree in 2019 from Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands, at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. This gave me the opportunity work on several hands-on projects, such as a sounding rocket program at ESA and a technology transfer project at CERN. In 2018, I first came to Japan as a scholarship exchange student at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where I joined the Yamaguchi-Takada laboratory. I widened the scope of my studies with courses in data analysis and intensive Japanese language lessons. Back in Delft for graduate school, I specialized in Control & Simulations. I developed a fault-tolerant SAC deep-reinforcement learning flight controller for the faculty’s business jet aircraft. This helped me understand the yet untapped capability of AI to improve flight safety and to more generally tackle the full automation challenge. I graduated from the Master’s degree in summer 2021 after conducting a remote internship at DeepX, and successively started to work there remotely as a Control Engineer. I finally moved to Japan in March 2022 and now assume the position of Control Section Head.