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  • Zhisheng Huang wins 2019 Weibo Annual Impact Event

    Zhisheng Huang, senior researcher at VU Amsterdam and professor at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China, Beijing University of Technology, China, and the Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China, has been awarded for his work on the ​​Tree Hole Rescue Team.

  • Pablo Cesar Awarded Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2020

    The 2020 Dutch Prize for ICT Research has been awarded to Pablo Cesar for his research on modelling and controlling complex collections of media objects (including real-time media and sensor data that are distributed in time and space). The prize comes with €50k, that can be freely spent by the winner to support their own research.

  • Ulle Endriss, appointed Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Collective Decision Making, UvA

    Ulle Endriss has been appointed professor of Artificial Intelligence and Collective Decision Making at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), UvA.

  • Awesome IT – Call for Sponsors

    On April 3rd 2020 the study association VIA will host its 10th edition of their symposium Awesome IT. This is an annual symposium for around 450 students who study computer science, artificial intelligence, information science or one of the related masters at the University of Amsterdam.

  • ADS meets CIDR

    For our first event of 2020, we joined forces with CIDR to host a meetup at the end of the conference. We heard talks from Turing Award winner Michael Stonebraker, Stanford associate professor Christopher Ré and University of Amsterdam professor Hinda Haned.

  • ACE Incubation Program – Applications are Open

    Are you a student, researcher or recent graduate with an inspiring startup idea? ACE Incubator has opened the applications for their ACE Incubation Program April 2020.

  • Text Analytics Meetup – KPN Results

    In collaboration with KPN, Amsterdam Data Science hosted two Text Analytics Meetups in 2019 with the aim of bringing students, professionals and experts together to tackle problems in the field. Watch out for more information on our third edition of the Meetup, which will take place in March/April 2020.

  • ADS presents TECH020 – Last call for companies to participate

    ADS presents TECH020 is our third Career Fair for all students studying fields related to Data Science and AI. There are only a few spots left for organisations to participate. 

  • ADS Highlight Event 2019 | Five Year Anniversary

    Amsterdam Data Science celebrated its five year anniversary with a packed afternoon of speakers in Pakhuis de Zwijger. A keynote from Spotify and UvA alumni, Henriette Cramer started the event, which included highlights and research pitches from ADS Gold Partners.

  • Efstratios Gavves, IvI, receives NWO LIFT Grant

    Efstratios Gavves, assistant professor of Computer Vision and Deep Learning at the Informatics Institute (IvI), has received a grant for the software development for autonomous cars. BMW is the other partner of this public-private partnership. €240,000 has been awarded and the project will start on 1 March 2020.

  • The National AI Course – English Programme

    The National AI Course has created accessible programmes for anyone who wants to prepare for the future.