Irma Mastenbroek

Irma Mastenbroek is an associated researcher at the AI & Society Lab and the founder of LODelle, a coding platform to collaborate on gender inclusivity in AI. With a professional background in education, she aims to empower others by teaching (self)compassion, skill and critical thinking.

In her Mathematics Bachelor at Utrecht University, she specialized in mathematical algorithms and explainable AI, with a minor in Operations Research (UvA) and a minor in Computer Science (UU). In her Masters in Applied Data Science at Utrecht University, she focussed on neural networks, recommendation algorithms and knowledge graphs.

Since her teenage years, Irma has been politically active and societally engaged. Ranging from political youth organisations to board sport societies, she is eager to engage with others, to collaborate and organise. Alongside LODelle, Irma is connected to Hippo AI, altruistic data trustee and open-source AI accelerator for the Health sector.