Our researchers are experts in a range of disciplines, encompassing business analytics, digital humanities, informatics, life sciences and social sciences. Within these disciplines, we focus our applications specifically related to the Dutch top sectors: city analytics, creative industry, energy, health, intelligence and security, and logistics.
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Sanne Abeln
Assistant Professor Bioinformatics - VU s.abeln@vu.nl- Bioinformatics
- Computational Modelling
- Data Analytics
- Data Stewardship
Pieter Adriaans
AAA Project Leader - UvA P.W.Adriaans@uva.nl- Artificial intelligence
- information and computation interactions
- Machine Learning
- Philosophy of information
Hamideh Afsarmanesh
Professor Computer Science - UvA h.afsarmanesh@uva.nl- Federated Collaborative Databases
- Semantic Information Modelling
- Virtual Organisations
Lora Aroyo
Creative Industry - Professor of Computer Science - VU lora.aroyo@vu.nl- CULTURAL HERITAGE
- recommendation systems
- Web Semantics
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Henri Bal
ADS Advisory Board - Professor of Computer Science - VU h.e.bal@vu.nl- Computing Infrastructures
- High Performance Distributed Computing
- Web Semantics
Sandjai Bhulai
Professor of Business Analytics - VU s.bhulai@vu.nl- dynamic pricing
- human resource analytics
- Operational Research
- social media analytics
- statistics
Peter Bloem
AAA Postdoc - VU p.bloem@vu.nl- Complex systems
- Graph grammars
- Knowledge graphs
- Machine Learning
- Motif extraction
Rens Bod
AAA Project Leader - Professor of Digital Humanities - UvA L.W.M.Bod@uva.nl- computational literary studies
- computational musicology
- digital aesthetics
- natural language cognition
Sander Bohte
ADS Research Project - Scientific Staff Member - CWI S.M.Bohte@cwi.nl- computational neuroscience
- Deep learning
- High Performance Distributed Computing
- Neural networks
Peter Boncz
AAA Project Leader - Scientific Staff Member - CWI - Professor - VU P.Boncz@cwi.nl- Database Architectures
Hans Borgman
Professor of Information Systems and Digital Business - UvA h.p.borgman@uva.nl- Digital Innovation
- IT Governance
- Technology Adoption
Herbert Bos
Professor of Computer Systems - VU HerbertB@cs.vu.nl- Reverse Engineering
- System Security
- vulnerabilities in binary software
Peter Bosman
Senior Researcher - CWI Peter.Bosman@cwi.nl- deformable image registration
- evolutionary algorithms
- Machine Learning
- multi-objective optimisation
- radiotherapy treatment planning
Tibor Bosse
Associate Professor Behavioural Informatics - VU t.bosse@vu.nl- Artificial intelligence
- Intelligent Virtual Agents
Peter Boswijk
ADS Advisory Board - Professor of Financial Econometrics - UvA H.P.Boswijk@uva.nl- Econometric Applications of Machine Learning
- High-Frequency Data
- Risk Management
Serge ter Braake
AAA Postdoc - UvA-VU sergeterbraake@gmail.com- heterogeneous data analysis
- historical perspectives
- History
- tool criticism
Bert Bredeweg
Associate Professor - UvA B.Bredeweg@uva.nl- Artificial intelligence in education
- Knowledge Representation
- Qualitative Reasoning
- Valorisation
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Pablo Cesar
Group Lead - CWI P.S.Cesar@cwi.nl- Immersive Media
- multimedia systems
- QoE
- Sensing Technology
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Elenna Dugundji
Senior Researcher - CWI-VU e.r.dugundji@cwi.nl- Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
- Freight Logistics
- Stochastic Modelling
- Transportation and Mobility Systems
- Travel Behaviour
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Gusz Eiben
Professor of Computational Intelligence - VU a.e.eiben@vu.nl- Adaptive Collective Systems
- Artificial intelligence
- Artificial Life
- Evolutionary Computing
- evolutionary robotics
Iwan de Esch
AAA Project Leader - Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry - VU i.de.esch@vu.nl- Biocomputational Chemistry
- drug innovation
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Anton Feenstra
Assistant Professor Bioinformatics - VU Feenstra@chem.vu.nl- Bioinformatics
- STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
- systems biology
Frans Feldberg
AAA Project Leader - Professor of Data-Driven Business Innovation - VU j.f.m.feldberg@vu.nl- Data-Driven Business Model Innovation
- decision support systems
- Digital Innovation
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Theo Gevers
Professor of Computer Vision - UvA th.gevers@uva.nl- computer vision
- Deep learning
- emotion recognition
- object recognition
Peter Grünwald
Machine Learning Group Lead - CWI Peter.Grunwald@cwi.nl- information theory
- Machine Learning
- minimum description length
- statistics
Chris de Graaf
AAA Project Leader - Assistant Professor Medicinal Chemistry - VU c.de.graaf@vu.nl- computational medicinal chemistry
- molecular pharmacology
- protein-ligand interactions
Clemens Grelck
University Lecturer - UvA c.grelck@uva.nl- computer architecture
- green ICT
- High Performance Distributed Computing
Paola Grosso
Assistant Professor - UvA p.grosso@uva.nl- Computing Infrastructures
- green ICT
- Optical Networking
Jonne Guyt
Assistant Professor - UvA j.y.guyt@uva.nl- Individual level choice models
- Marketing
- retailing
- scanner panel
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Evert Haasdijk
AAA Project Leader - Assistant Professor Computational Intelligence - VU e.haasdijk@vu.nl- Artificial intelligence
- computational intelligence
- evolutionary algorithms
- evolutionary robotics
Lynda Hardman
ADS Advisory Board - Professor of Multimedia Discourse Interaction - CWI Lynda.Hardman@cwi.nl- Digital Media
- Information Access
- Linked Data
- Visualisation
Frank van Harmelen
AAA Programme Director - Professor in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning - VU frank.van.harmelen@cs.vu.nl- Artificial intelligence
- information systems
- Knowledge Representation
- semantic web
Jaap Heringa
AAA Project Leader - Professor of Bioinformatics - VU heringa@cs.vu.nl- Bioinformatics
- genome analysis
- network analysis
- sequence analysis
- systems biology
Robert van den Hoed
Lecturer Energy & Innovation - AUAS r.van.den.hoed@hva.nl- green ICT
- Infrastructures
- Urban technology
Rutger Hofman
ADS Assignment - Infrastructures - Research programmer - VU rutger@cs.vu.nl- Computing Infrastructures
- High Performance Distributed Computing
- Machine Learning
Laura Hollink
ADS Research Project - Scientific Staff Member - CWI l.hollink@cwi.nl- Digital Media
- Linked Data
- Usage data
Mark Hoogendoorn
AAA Project Leader - Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence - VU m.hoogendoorn@vu.nl- Artificial intelligence
- Machine Learning
- personalised therapies
- predictive modelling for diseases
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Alexandru Iosup
Professor in Massivizing Computer Systems - VU A.Iosup@vu.nl- Cloud Computing
- data management systems architectures
- High Performance Distributed Computing
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Bart A. Kamphorst
AAA Postdoc - VU - Philips Healthcare b.a.kamphorst@vu.nl- Behaviour Change
- E-Coaching Systems
- ehealth
- Machine Learning
- Population Health
George Kanev
AAA PhD Student - VU g.k.kanev@vu.nl- Bioinformatics
- Cancer research
- Chemogenomics
- Chemoinformatics
- Machine Learning
Evangelos Kanoulas
AAA Project Leader - Programme Manager of ADS Data Science MSc - Assistant Professor - UvA e.kanoulas@uva.nl- Information Retrieval
- Natural Language Understanding
- Text mining
- Web search
Martin Kersten
Fellow - CWI - Professor - UvA Martin.Kersten@cwi.nl- Database Architectures
- query optimisation
Gunnar Klau
Research Group Leader - CWI - Professor - VU gunnar.klau@cwi.nl- Bioinformatics
- Combinatorial Algorithms
- Computational Biology
- Network Biology
Michel Klein
Assistant Professor of AI - VU michel.klein@cs.vu.nl- Artificial intelligence
- behavioural data
- intelligent self-management systems
Sander Klous
ADS Assignment - Connections with Business - Professor in Big Data Ecosystems UvA - KPMG s.klous@uva.nl- Big data
- data processing technologies
- High Performance Distributed Computing
Ger Koole
ADS Advisory Board - Professor in Business Analytics - VU ger.koole@vu.nl- Applied Probability
- Stochastic Optimisation
Ben Krose
Professor in Digital Health - AUAS-UvA b.j.a.krose@hva.nl- Ambient robotics
- Digital Life
- distributed camera surveillance
- human-robot interaction
- visual navigation
Tobias Kuhn
Assistant Professor - VU kuhntobias@gmail.com- Artificial intelligence
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Linguistics
- natural language
- semantic web
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Patricia Lago
ADS Postgraduate Education and Internal Connections - Professor Software & Services - VU p.lago@vu.nl- cloud migration
- Green IT and Sustainability management
- Service oriented architecting
- software engineering
Inger Leemans
AAA Project Leader - Professor of Cultural History - VU i.b.leemans@vu.nl- CULTURAL HERITAGE
- data perspectives
- deep data representation
- historical perspectives
Mike Lees
Assistant Professor - UvA m.h.lees@uva.nl- Artificial intelligence
- computational science
- Multi-agent systems
Edo Roos Lindgreen
Professor of Data Science in Auditing, UvA Roos.Edo@kpmg.nl- Auditing
- information security
- privacy
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Hannes Mühleisen
Scientific Staff Member - CWI & Assistant Professor - VU Hannes.Muehleisen@cwi.nl- Database Architectures
- statistics
Ivano Malavolta
Assistant Professor - VU ivanomalavolta@gmail.com- mobile-enabled systems
- Model-Driven Engineering
- software architecture
- software engineering for robotics
Stefan Manegold
ADS Assignment - Database Management - Scientific Staff Member - CWI Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl- Database Architectures
Masoud Mazloom
AAA Postdoc - UvA m.mazloom@uva.nl- Artificial intelligence
- Knowledge Representation
- Machine Learning
- multimedia analysis
- social media analysis
Rob van der Mei
R&D Manager CWI, Professor at VU R.D.van.der.Mei@cwi.nl- analysis of communication networks
- Logistics
- Networks and Algorithms
- Performance Modelling
- Stochastics
Roeland Merks
Scientific Staff Member - CWI - Professor of Multiscale Mathematical Biology - ULeiden Roeland.Merks@cwi.nl- Modelling and Simulation
- Multiscale Mathematical Biology
- systems biology
Joris Mooij
Assistant Professor - UvA J.M.Mooij@uva.nl- approximate inference
- causal discovery
- Machine Learning
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Peter Neijens
AAA Project Leader - Professor of Media and Persuasion - UvA P.C.Neijens@uva.nl- persuasive communication
Sabine Niederer
ADS Advisory board - Director of CREATE-IT - AUAS s.m.c.niederer@hva.nl- Citizen Empowerment
- data visualisation
- Digital Media
Julia Noordegraaf
AAA Project Leader - Professor of Digital Heritage - UvA J.J.Noordegraaf@uva.nl- digital heritage
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Jacco van Ossenbruggen
ADS Research Project - Group Leader - CWI Jacco.van.Ossenbruggen@cwi.nl- CULTURAL HERITAGE
- Information Access
- Linked Data
- Web Semantics
Martijn van Otterlo
AAA Postdoc - VU m.van.otterlo@vu.nl- Ethics of algorithms
- High-level activity recognition
- human-robot interaction
- Knowledge Representation
- visual perception
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Andy Pimentel
Associate Professor - UvA A.D.Pimentel@uva.nl- embedded systems
- Modelling and Simulation
- Multi- and manycore computer systems
- System exploration and optimisation
Marijn Plomp
Assistant Professor & Programme Manager - VU m.g.a.plomp@vu.nl- Chain digitisation
- Chain-Computerisation
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Hajo Reijers
ADS Management Team - Professor in Business Informatics - VU h.a.reijers@vu.nl- business process improvement
- business process management
- conceptual modelling
- workflow technology
Maarten de Rijke
ADS Director - Professor of Information Retrieval - UvA M.deRijke@uva.nl- Information Retrieval
- Search Engines
- Text mining
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Marc Salomon
ADS Management - Professor in Decision Sciences - UvA M.Salomon@uva.nl- Applied Mathematics
- Business Economics
- Operational Research
Alexander Schönhuth
CWI Alexander.schönhuth@cwi.nl- Bioinformatics
- Cancer Systems Biology
- Computational Genomics
- Statistical Modelling
- Structural Variant Discovery
Guus Schreiber
Professor of Computer Science - VU guus.schreiber@vu.nl- Linked Data
- Multimedia Analytics
- Web Semantics
Peter Sloot
Professor of Computational Science - UvA P.M.A.Sloot@uva.nl- biomedicine
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- computational science
Arnold Smeulders
Professor of Multimedia Information Analysis - UvA A.W.M.Smeulders@uva.nl- computer vision
- content-based image
- Intelligent Systems
- multimedia information processing
- video retrieval
Age Smilde
AAA Project Leader - Professor of Biosystems Data Analysis - UvA A.K.Smilde@uva.nl- systems biology
Cees Snoek
Associate Professor - UvA cgmsnoek@uva.nl- image retrieval
- Intelligent Systems
- video retrieval
- Web Semantics
Chantal van Son
AAA Project PhD Student - VU c.m.van.son@vu.nl- Knowledge Representation
- Language Processing
- Lexicons and Ontologies
- Machine Learning
- Opinion mining
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Annette ten Teije
ADS Health Assignment - Associate Professor Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - VU annette@cs.vu.nl- formalisation of medical knowledge
- Healthcare Information Management
- Healthcare quality indicators
- Medical Guidelines
Bas Teusink
AAA Project Leader - Professor in Systems Bioinformatics - VU bas.teusink@vu.nl- Bioinformatics
- systems biology
Damian Trilling
AAA Project Leader - Assistant Professor Political Communication and Journalism - UvA d.c.trilling@uva.nl- Big data
- computational social science
- personalised communication
- political communication
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Jacopo Urbani
AAA Project Leader - Assistant Professor of Computer Science - VU jacopo@cs.vu.nl- Knowledge Representation
- Linked Data
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Ana Varbanescu
Assistant Professor - Computer Systems Architecture - UvA A.L.Varbanescu@uva.nl- Computing Infrastructures
Bob van de Velde
AAA Postdoc - UvA R.N.vandeVelde@uva.nl- Big data
- Cross-media studies
- Opinion mining
- Political bias detection
- Social dynamics
Piek Vossen
AAA Project Leader - Professor of Computational Lexicology - VU piek.vossen@vu.nl- Computational Lexicon
- Computational Linguistics
- Language Technology
- Ontologies
- WordNets
Spyros Voulgaris
Assistant Professor VU spyros@cs.vu.nl- High Performance Distributed Computing
- Networks and Algorithms
Claes de Vreese
AAA Project Leader - Professor of Political Communication - UvA c.h.devreese@uva.nl- media exposure measures
- personalised communication
- Political bias detection
- political journalism
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Qingchen Wang
AAA PhD Student - UvA-ORTEC qingchen.wang@ortec.com- customer journey
- Marketing Analytics
- marketing optimisation
- multi-channel attribution
- online advertising
Max Welling
ADS Advisory Board - Professor in Machine Learning - UvA M.Welling@uva.nl- Big data
- Deep learning
- Machine Learning
Bart Westerman
AAA Project Leader - VUmc a.westerman@vumc.nl- Cancer genomics
- Cancer research
- oncogenes
- transcriptomics
Marcel Worring
Professor Business Analytics - Associate Professor Informatics - UvA M.Worring@uva.nl- Information Visualisation
- Intelligent Systems
- Multimedia Analytics
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