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Dad describes the moment he realized he couldn’t raise his daughter in the United States

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Hi everyone,

I feel like a re-introduction is long overdue!

My name is Anna, and I'm an assistant professor of Algorithmics at the Delft University of Technology, specialising in combinatorial optimisation, symbolic AI, constraint programming, propositional model counting, operations research and reasoning under uncertainty.

I'm a nerd, a feminist and a traveller, not always in that order.

In my spare time I like to hike and go geocaching. I try to go swing dancing a few times a week. I am a Trekkie. I want to learn how to draw. I am an Indomie and Obsidian enthusiast. Based in the Netherlands, I miss Belgium, Canada and Singapore.

Since a job in academia somehow always is personal, I have chosen to mix professional interactions with the more personal ones on this platform. At least for now. Obviously, my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer yadiyadiyada.

Hope to keep interacting with you all!

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Went to Blu Jazz in Kampong Gelam for the last time yesterday. Jazz Inc SG held a “tea party”, and the gang held a farewell jam for me.

I like to think that Sinclair was inspired by my departure in assembling the set list, for he opted for a “tour of south-east Asia”, singing a swing version of Gelang Si Paku Gelang (I’m staying at the same hotel in Geylang as where I was staying when I arrived in SG for the first time) and a swing version of Rasa Sayang (I’ll be travelling though south-east Asia for the next couple of weeks). Maybe he also remembered that I was the only one of his students to show up when he and Rudy did a local folk songs inspired jazz gig?

He also sang Wham! (Re-bop boom bam), the song to which we danced during the Jazz Inc performance I participated in, back in October.

I am so grateful for the Lindy Hop / Jazz community I found here in SG. I will miss them a lot and hope to see them again all over the world, at Lindy Exchanges 😊

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