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  • ADS Webinar | What Makes a Great Startup?

    In this webinar, in collaboration with ACE, we explored the journey of a startup, the challenges founders face and how to navigate through them. With speakers Daniela Redondo and Maxime ten Brinke from ACE and Ruben Halfhide from Gymspaces.

  • Millions for AI knowledge and investment consortium

    CWI will be part of a knowledge and investment consortium made up of a large group of Dutch universities and a venture capitalist has been awarded an €8 million grant to accelerate the application and marketing of innovations in the field of AI.

  • ADS Webinar | Responsible and Ethical use of AI

    In this webinar, we explored how we can use AI responsibly and ethically. Particularly initiatives that deal with sensitive data or have a significant impact on people.

  • Claes de Vreese becomes fifth university professor of AI at UvA

    Claes de Vreese has been appointed university professor of AI and Society by the University of Amsterdam. This appointment takes the number of university professors in the field of AI at the UvA to five. De Vreese will focus on the ever-increasing role that automated decision-making and AI plays in our digital society, bringing together various sub-areas, including politics, media and democracy.

  • ASIF Ventures is recruiting a new board

    ASIF Ventures is recruiting a new board. Are you interested in venture capital? Do you have what it takes to fund the new Dutch unicorns?  Fund student startups at ASIF ventures for 1 year, full-time. Apply now.

  • Amsterdam Science Innovation Award

    Do you have an innovative idea and would you like to develop it further? The Innovation Award is the Amsterdam competition for research based innovative ideas that contribute to a better world. You have the chance to get feedback on your idea, get a pitch training, share your innovation with the public and win €10.000!

  • AI, Media and Democracy

    How will AI change media? What new opportunities can AI create for democracy? And what conditions need to be fulfilled for these things to happen? On 22 February 2021, The AI, Media and Democracy Lab was launched to look into these questions. A collaboration between the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and CWI.

  • ICAI Launch Pad

    Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) has initiated the Launch Pad to retain talent in the AI and Data Science ecosystem.

  • World Data League

    The quest to find the best data scientists by solving social-oriented problems (April and May - Virtual Event) 

  • The AUAS ECAAI becomes a Center of Expertise

    As of the 1st February 2021, the AUAS Expertise Centre for Applied AI has been made a Center of Expertise (CoE). With this small change in name, the AUAS has become the first knowledge institute in the Netherlands with a CoE on applied AI.

  • Supporting innovation in AI and healthcare

    In October 2020, Amsterdam Medical Data Science (AMDS) made a call for proposals for seed projects that could fuel collaboration between data scientists and medical professionals. A total of four pitches have now been chosen to receive a €5,000 seed grant.

  • Launch new podcast: Valuable AI for Health

    On 15th January 2021 the Ducth Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport launched the podcast: "Valuable AI for Health" under an initiative of the same name.

  • ADS Presents Tech020 | Career fair for Data Science & AI

    Looking for talent? Amsterdam Data Science will be hosting its annual career fair for final year bachelor, masters and PhD students on February 18th.

  • CIDR 2021: Final call for participation

    The annual Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) will be hosted for free and online this year, starting on 11th January to 15th January 2021. Register now to see keynotes from Benoit Dageville, co-founder and president of products at Snowflake and Kunle Olukotun, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and co-founder and chief technologist at SambaNova.

  • ADS Highlights Event 2020

    On Thursday 10 December 2020, Amsterdam Data Science hosted its annual highlights event online. The afternoon was filled with inspiring speakers and we announced the inaugural ADS Thesis Awards winners. Watch the whole event.

  • Emma Beauxis-Aussalet on the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics list

    Emma Beauxis-Aussalet, assistant professor of ethical computing at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has been listed on the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2020 list.

  • Winners of the Inaugural ADS Thesis Awards Announced

    The ADS Thesis Award winners for 2020 are Johanna Heddes and Nick Tehrany in the BSc category, and Rochelle Choenni and Mario Giulianelli in the MSc category. The winners were announced at the ADS Highlights Event.

  • Somaya Ben Allouch appointed professor by special appointment of Human-System Interaction for Health and Wellbeing

    Dr Somaya Ben Allouch (1979) has been appointed professor by special appointment of Human-System Interaction for Health and Wellbeing at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), with effect from 1 January 2021.

  • First official sponsor of Amsterdam ELLIS

    The Amsterdam ELLIS unit that was officially launched earlier this year on 15th September has secured a gold sponsorship from Qualcomm Technologies Inc.

  • Humainer AI proposal awarded

    The proposal 'a HUman and Mathematical Approach to Implementing and Navigating Explainable and Responsible AI  (HUMAINER AI)' from Paola Grosso has been awarded in the NWO multidisciplinary call for Artificial Intelligence Responsible Use.

  • AUAS TO HELP SMES WITH DIGITALISATION

    State Secretary Mona Keijzer signed thirteen deals for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Through these deals, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy is contributing over seven million euros to regional SME projects of provinces and municipalities. This gives businesses an incentive to innovate, digitalise and operate internationally.

  • CWI Fellow Martin Kersten Receives Royal Decoration

    Database pioneer Martin Kersten has been awarded a royal decoration. Kersten was appointed Knight in the Royal Order of the Netherlands Lion, recognizing his merit in pioneering database research.

  • AI for cultural heritage

    CWI has started a new collaboration with heritage and research institutions around AI. In the Cultural AI Lab, they will be exploring the possibilities of the use of AI for cultural research.

  • Sindy Löwe wins KNVI Thesis Prize for Informatica and Informatiekunde

    Artificial Intelligence alumnus Sindy Löwe has become the winner of the KNVI Thesis Prize for Informatica and Informatiekunde. She will receive the prize of 3000 euros for her thesis entitled "Greedy InfoMax for Self-Supervised Representation Learning". The virtual award ceremony organized by the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen will take place on November 30th.

  • Hackathon: Is BCG vaccination causally related to reduced COVID‐19 mortality?

    There has been renewed interest in potential BCG/COVID correlations – as a result, the University of Ottawa, Estafet and Elsevier are collaborating to organise a BCG Hackathon to explore this correlation in more detail.

  • UvA to accelerate data-driven research with new Data Science Centre

    The University of Amsterdam will launch a new Data Science Centre (DSC) to help increase the innovation, diffusion and cross pollination of data science across all faculties.

  • AI image recognition: Driving our cars, keeping us healthy, protecting our public spaces

    The past decade has seen great strides taken in the field of image recognition in video content. AI can accurately identify simple activities such as cycling, doing a pull-up or ice skating in short video clips featuring a limited number of people. But there is as yet no way to reach the same level of accuracy in longer video streams where multiple people interact simultaneously and are involved in more complex causal activities. Professor Cees Snoek and his team at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) are working on a range of projects in this area.

  • Official launch of the AUAS Expertise Centre Applied AI

    AUAS will officially be launching the Expertise Centre Applied Artificial Intelligence (ECAAI) on Thursday 5th November 2020 during the month of AAI.

  • Amsterdam coalition publishes special AI edition in New Scientist

    To highlight the importance of AI to a broader public, the Amsterdam coalition ‘AI Technology for People’ has published a special AI edition in the October issue of the popular science magazine New Scientist. The special edition showcases some of the research, teaching and innovation in AI being carried out across the Amsterdam region.

  • Computable, De Dataloog and AUAS have launched the Dutch Applied AI Award

    ICT professional Computable, Podcast De Dataloog and the Amsterdam University of Applied Science (AUAS) will be launching the first ever Dutch Applied AI Award. Out of 52 nominations a jury of five specialists in the field of AI have chosen 10 nominees that will have the chance to win the award.

  • Breakthrough in energy efficient Artificial Intelligence

    Thanks to a mathematical breakthrough, AI applications like speech recognition, gesture recognition and ECG classification can become a hundred to a thousand times more energy efficient. This means it will be possible to put much more elaborate AI in chips, enabling applications to run on a smartphone or smartwatch where before this was done in the cloud.

  • DigiVita Code events for EU Code Week

    VHTO (Women in Higher Technical Education) an organisation that aims to increase the participation of women and girls in STEM, will be organising coding events for teachers and girls in primary and secondary during #EU Code week (10 - 25 October 2020).

  • ADS & AMDS Webinar | COVID-19 and the Media

    In the fifth webinar in the ADS & AMDS Data & COVID-19 series, Associate Professor at Radboud University, Dr. Marcel Becker and Emillie de Keulenaar, PhD researcher at University of Amsterdam’s Open Intelligence Lab and Simon Fraser University’s Digital Democracies Group. Discussed the world of ethics, fake news, tantalising conspiracies, and the power of storytelling.

  • Sahar Yadegari appointed as new director of VHTO

    Sahar Yadegari has been appointed as the new director of VHTO (Women in Higher Technical Education) as of the 1st of October 2020.

  • Sport Data Valley launches new platform to analyse sports and movement data

    Sport Data Valley provides researchers a place where they can analyse data and allows coaches and athletes to access these analyses. With this online platform, Sport Data Valley is connecting sport and science.

  • VU, UvA and Huawei Launch DREAMS Lab

    The DREAMS Lab, a collaboration between Huawei, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam, aims to provide the next generation in search technology, taking into account different languages and cultures in Europe.

  • Call for small project proposals | NWA routes 2020

    The NWO has opened a call for proposals that the route management of each NWA route can apply to. The management of the NWA route “Big Data” has therefore issued a mini-call for proposals. Deadline for submission is September 18 2020.

  • ADS Thesis Awards are now open for nominations

    The ADS Thesis Awards aim to promote excellence in Data Science and AI from students at the Bachelor and Master level in all Amsterdam-based knowledge institutes. Now open for thesis nominations that present exciting and innovative work in the area of Data Science and/or AI research. The deadline for nominations is 15th September 2020 22nd September 2020.

  • Ton de Kok appointed as the New Director of CWI

    Ton de Kok has been appointed as the new Director of Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) as of the 1st of October 2020.

  • New Culture working group at the NL AI Coalition

    In light of the numerous opportunities available to the culture sector with AI, a Culture working group at the NL AI Coalition (NL AIC) has been established, to create a collective innovative plan to increase the presence of AI in the sector.

  • NWO opens Call Incentive Grants for Women in STEM

    The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has opened the call for Incentive Grants for Women in STEM. With this call, NWO aims to increase the inflow and reduce the outflow of women in science or the engineering sciences. The deadline for submissions is 31st December 2020.

  • Civic AI Lab Launched

    The Civic AI Lab (CAIL) will investigate and overcome the negative side effects of AI on the equality and fair opportunities of citizens in the city. It is a collaboration between the City of Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

  • ADS & AMDS Webinar | COVID-19 and Capacity Modelling in Public Transport

    In the fifth webinar in the ADS & AMDS series Data & COVID-19, Dennis Huisman and Menno de Bruyn from NS talked about the work they have done in capacity modelling on the Dutch railways.

  • Applications Open: Women in AI Awards 2020

    Applications are now open for the Women in AI Awards, sponsored by Capgemini. These awards aim to honor the top European female entrepreneurs in AI. The winners will be announced on November 18th in Paris.

  • Maarten de Rijke appointed VP Personalization and Relevance at Ahold Delhaize

    Maarten de Rijke, professor of Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval at the University of Amsterdam and director of ICAI has been appointed VP Personalization and Relevance at Ahold Delhaize as part of the company's commitment to Kickstart AI.

  • ADS & AMDS Webinar | The balance between Privacy & Health during COVID-19

    In the fourth webinar in the ADS & AMDS Data & COVID-19 series, Hester de Vries, Attorney-at-law at Kennedy Van der Laan, and privacy & data protection expert, talked about the delicate balance between privacy and health during the pandemic.

  • ADS & AMDS Webinar | Modelling Economic & Health Effects of COVID-19 Policies

    The third webinar in the ADS & AMDS Data & COVID-19 series was an international edition with speakers from Penn Wharton Budget Model talking about modelling the health and economic effects of CIVD-19 policies.

  • ADS & AMDS Webinar | Predictive modelling for COVID-19 patients in hospitals

    In the second webinar in the ADS & AMDS Data & COVID-19 series, Daan de Bruin, lead Data Scientist at PacMed, and Bjorn van der Ster, postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam UMC, talked about predictive modelling for COVID-19 patients in hospitals.

  • ADS & AMDS Webinar | Different Scenarios for Exit Strategies in COVID-19

    To kick off the first in the Amsterdam Data Science & Amsterdam Medical Data Science webinar series on Data & COVID-19, Edwin van den Heuvel, professor in statistics TU Eindhoven and Bert Slagter, founder Procurios, talked about the predictions and changes in spread of the virus and the possible scenarios for exit strategies.

  • Marcel Worring Appointed Professor of Multimedia Analytics

    Marcel Worring has been appointed professor of Multimedia Analytics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam.

  • Integrating Data Science and Relational Systems

    In his thesis, Mark Raasveldt, researcher in CWI's Database Architectures group, proposes several novel techniques that make database management systems easier to use and more efficient.

  • Darya Krasilnikov announced as the New Director of ACE

    Darya Krasilnikov has been appointed to the role of Director at ACE (Amsterdam Center of Entrepreneurship). For the last four years, she was Managing Director of ACE. Darya succeeds Erik Boer, the co-founder and former Director of ACE.

  • Elsevier’s Discovery Lab: Knowledge Graph for Research

    Elsevier's ICAI Lab, a collaboration with UvA and VU Amsterdam, is developing an integrated knowledge graph for research.

  • Stefan Manegold wins 2020 Sigmod Contributions Award

    Stefan Manegold, group leader of Database Architectures at CWI, won the 2020 SIGMOD Contributions Award. The award recognizes his innovative work in the data management community to encourage scientific reproducibility.

  • International Mobility of Dutch AI Researchers is High

    The Rathenau Institute's latest report (in Dutch) on the international mobility of AI researchers shows that there is no "brain drain" of such expertise in the Netherlands but a "brain exchange".

  • UvA’s Systems and Networking Lab Divides to Grow

    The Systems and Networking Lab (SNE) at the Informatics Institute, UvA, has split into three new research groups. This will enable better focus into each research field: Complex Cyber Infrastructure, MultiScale Networked Systems and Parallel Computing Systems.

  • Zhisheng Huang’s Tree Hole Group Helps in Battle Against COVID-19

    Senior researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Zhisheng Huang, has adapted his algorithm used to help prevent suicides in China to focus specifically on those weighed down by the mental stress caused by the virus.

  • Careers in STEM: Opportunities in Data Science and AI are Endless

    ADS Director, Lynda Hardman writes about the endless career opportunities for those choosing to study Data Science and AI.

  • New Labs Established in the AUAS Expertise Centre Applied AI

    The new AUAS Expertise Centre Applied Artificial Intelligence (ECAAI) encompasses all of the AUAS’s AI research and education activities. Launched in January 2020, the AUAS invests structurally in the application of AI and is an ADS Gold Partner.

  • HOSTKEY GPU Grant Program

    The program is open to specialists and professionals in the Data Science sector performing research or other projects centered on innovative uses of GPU processing and which will glean practical results in the field of Data Science.

  • Real Medical Data Hackathon with AUMC and Deloitte

    The 24-hour Medical Data Hackathon organised by Deloitte and Amsterdam University Medical Hospital (Amsterdam UMC) saw data scientists working with AI students on real data from intensive care. In the process, the teams came up with real world solutions.

  • Elsevier Launch New ICSR Lab

    Elsevier has launched its new International Center for the Study of Research (ICSR) Lab. It is a cloud-based computational platform which provides researchers a new way to analyze large structured datasets for free.

  • AI Proposes the Best Radiation Treatment Plans in Clinical Practice for the First Time

    CWI researchers, together with the department of radiation oncology of Amsterdam UMC, have developed software based on AI that quickly proposes multiple radiation treatment plans for each patient. Amsterdam UMC has treated the first patient with a plan proposed by the new AI on March 17, 2020.

  • Open Call: Je Data de Baas 2

    In 2019 SIDN fonds issued the call "Je data de baas". This year they are following up with a call about the value of data, raising awareness about the role of the data supplier and giving more attention to strengthening the position of the internet user.

  • ADS Sponsored PPP Research Assistant Projects

    Four proposals for joint Research Assistant projects have been approved. This is the latest initiative from ADS to encourage collaboration between academia and industry on new and innovative research areas. The goal being to lead to larger, longer-term research collaborations.

  • Using AI in the Fight Against COVID-19

    Researchers from the Research Center for AI Ethics and Safety, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence discuss the use of AI to investigate, understand and predict the movement and outbreak of COVID-19. What are the efforts and lessons China can share, and what are the ethical implications?

  • Women in Data Science Maastricht

    Maastricht University hosted its first ever Women in Data Science (WiDS) Maastricht event, to inspire and educate data scientists, regardless of gender, and to support women in the field.

  • Elsevier publishes new Gender Report

    The findings of Elsevier's latest gender report: The Researcher Journey Through a Gender Lens shows progress towards gender equality. However, women are still behind in terms of number of publications and citations.

  • ADS presents TECH020 – Career Fair Round up

    This year's Career Fair brought fresh opportunities in the fields of Data Science, AI and more to bachelor, master and PhD students. Twenty-two organisations and over 250 students participated in the event which included an Open Fair, workshops and a Prize Quiz.

  • Sebastian Schelter named as head of AIRLab

    Sebastian Schelter has been announced as the first manager of the AIRLab, the joint ICAI-Ahold Delhaize artificial intelligence industry lab, with effect from 1 April 2020.

  • Dutch Data Science Awards 2020 – Open for Submissions

    Submissions for the Dutch Data Science Awards 2020 are now open. This year, PhDs, startups and corporate or governmental projects have the chance to win one of the three coveted awards. The submission period runs until Wednesday 15th April, with the ceremony on Tuesday 16th June at the Aula, UvA.

  • Official Opening of AIM Lab

    ICAI Amsterdam's latest lab, AI for Medical Imaging (AIM) Lab celebrated its official opening on Friday 31st January. This included remarks from Geert ten Dam, President of the Executive Board of UvA, Victor Everhardt, Alderman of the City of Amsterdam, and a keynote from Bram van Ginneken, Professor at Radboud University Medical Center.

  • Alice & Eve 2020: A Celebration of Women in Computing

    The first ever Alice & Eve event took place on Friday 24th January at the University of Twente. The event celebrated women in computing in the Netherlands.

  • Inria and DFKI Sign Memorandum of Understanding for Cooperation in AI

    On the first anniversary of the Aachen Treaty (22 January 2020), the French National Institute for Information Technology, Inria, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI, signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

  • 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.