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
Hamideh Afsarmanesh
Professor Computer Science - UvA h.afsarmanesh@uva.nl- Federated Collaborative Databases
- Semantic Information Modelling
- Virtual Organisations
Abdallah El Ali
Tenure Track Researcher - CWI Abdallah.El.Ali@cwi.nl- Affective Computing
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Sensing Technology
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Henri Bal
ADS Supervisory 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
- Deep learning
- Graph grammars
- Knowledge graphs
- Motif extraction
Victor de Boer
Assistant Professor - VU v.de.boer@vu.nl- Human-Computer Interaction
- Knowledge Representation
- semantic web
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
ADS Supervisory Board - Database Architectures Group & Management Team - CWI - Professor of Large-Scale Analytical Data Management - 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
Peter Boswijk
ADS Supervisory 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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Davide Ceolin
Scientific Staff Member - Information Access - CWI Davide.Ceolin@cwi.nl- Data quality
- deep data
- trust
- web data
Pablo Cesar
Group Lead - CWI P.S.Cesar@cwi.nl- Immersive Media
- multimedia systems
- Quality of Experience
- Sensing Technology
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Yuri Demchenko
Senior Researcher - UvA y.demchenko@uva.nl- Big Data Architecture
- Big Data Security
- Cloud Computing
Willemijn van Dolen
Professor of Marketing - UvA W.M.vanDolen@uva.nl- Corporate social responsibility
- Marketing
- social media analysis
- Social services to children
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
Professor of Statistical Learning - Machine Learning Group Lead - CWI Peter.Grunwald@cwi.nl- Deep learning
- information theory
- 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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Lynda Hardman
ADS Director - Information Access Group - CWI, Professor of Multimedia Discourse Interaction - UU 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
ADS Management Team - Professor of Bioinformatics - VU j.heringa@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
Herke van Hoof
Assistant Professor - UvA h.c.vanhoof@uva.nl- Machine Learning
- reinforcement learning
- robot models
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
Zhisheng Huang
Senior Researcher - VU zhg300@vu.nl- Artificial intelligence
- Knowledge Representation
- semantic web
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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
Programme Manager of ADS MSc - Professor of Text Analytics & Information Retrieval - 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
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
Umut Konus
Associate Professor of Marketing and Digital Business - UvA U.Konus@uva.nl- Attribution Models
- Choice Models
- Customer Journeys
- Mobile and Online Marketing
- Omnichannel Marketing
Ger Koole
ADS Supervisory Board - Professor in Business Analytics - VU ger.koole@vu.nl- Applied Probability
- Stochastic Optimisation
Wouter M. Koolen
Scientific Staff Member - Machine Learning Group - CWI wmkoolen@cwi.nl- Bandits
- Deep learning
- Game Theory
- Learning Theory
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
Rob van der Mei
Professor of Applied Mathematics VU - R&D Manager CWI 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
- Deep learning
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Sabine Niederer
ADS Supervisory Board - Director of CREATE-IT - AUAS s.m.c.niederer@hva.nl- Citizen Empowerment
- data visualisation
- Digital Media
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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
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Nanda Piersma
ADS Management Team - Professor by special appointment Urban Analytics - AUAS-CWI n.piersma@hva.nl
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
Professor in Business Informatics - VU h.a.reijers@vu.nl- business process improvement
- business process management
- conceptual modelling
- workflow technology
Maarten de Rijke
AAA Programme Director - Professor of Information Retrieval - UvA M.deRijke@uva.nl- Information Retrieval
- Search Engines
- Text mining
Diederik Roijers
Assistant Professor in Computational Intelligence - VU d.m.roijers@vu.nl- Evolutionary Computing
- Machine Learning
- multi-objective decision making
- reinforcement learning and planning
Stevan Rudinac
Assistant Professor - UvA s.rudinac@uva.nl- computer vision
- Information Retrieval
- Information Visualisation
- Machine Learning
- Multimedia Analytics
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Marc Salomon
ADS Management Team - 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
Francesca De Simone
Tenure Track Researcher - CWI Francesca.De.Simone@cwi.nl- Immersive Media
- multimedia systems
- Quality of Experience
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 - Director of QUVA Lab - 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
Professor of Intelligent Sensory Information Systems - UvA cgmsnoek@uva.nl- Artificial intelligence
- 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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Niek van Ulzen
Programme & Data Manager - Physical Activity, Sport & Nutrition - AUAS n.r.van.ulzen@hva.nl- data manager
- ehealth
- sports analytics
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
Piek Vossen
AAA Project Leader - Professor of Computational Lexicology - VU piek.vossen@vu.nl- Computational Lexicon
- Computational Linguistics
- Language Technology
- Ontologies
- WordNets
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 Supervisory Board - Professor in Machine Learning - UvA M.Welling@uva.nl- Big data
- Deep 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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Robert Zwitser
Assistant Professor - Psychological Methods Group - UvA r.j.zwitser@uva.nl- behavioural data science
- differential item functioning
- multistage testing
- statistical models for educational assessment
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