Keynotes & Invited Presentations

“From Large Language Models to Hybrid Intelligence”
Michiel van der Meer was keynote speaker at the VOGIN-IP 2024, Amsterdam.

“The K in ‘neuro-symbolic’ stands for ‘knowledge'”
Frank van Harmelen was keynote speaker at the International Semantic Web Summerschool, Bertinoro, Italy, 2023. 

“AI systems that learn and reason” 
Frank van Harmelen was keynote speaker at the Center of Advanced Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich. 

Knowledge Graphs for Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities” 
Victor de Boer was a keynote speaker in de SUMAC 2023 workshop (co-located with ACM Multimedia) (Ottawa, Canada, November 2023). 

“Hybrid Intelligence: Value-alignment, Meaningful human-control, and Co-activity”
Catholijn Jonker was invited as keynote speaker to Arctic AI Days in Oulu 2023, Finland.

“Algorithms as Sociotechnical Systems: A systems and control paradigm for research, engineering and governance”
Roel Dobbe presented at UC Berkely and UC San Diego (USA, 2023).

“Hybrid Intelligence: from vision to science”
Frank van Harmelen was keynote speaker at the HHAI 2023 conference in Munich

“Authenticity in the Digital Age: Designing for Appropriate Trust”
Siddharth Mehrotra gave a keynote at the ‘Authenticity in the Digital Age’ symposium in Tilburg (NL, 2023).

“Combining Knowledge Graphs with Machine Learning”
Frank van Harmelen was keynote speaker at  SWAT4HCLS, Semantic Wep Applications and Tools for Healthcare and Life Sciences, Basel, Switzerland, 2023.

“PaCo Dataset: Partner selection and person perception in social interactions”
Bernd Dudzik was invited presenter at ADS x HHAI: Industry Event, International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI), Amsterdam (NL), 2022

“At the Intersection of ethics and STEM”
Bernd Dudzik was invited to participate in a Panel Discussion at the International Conference on Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDIT), Leiden (NL), 2022

“Trusting agents?”
Myrthe Tielman was invited keynote speaker at the doctoral consortium of 22nd ACM Internation Converence on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA22), Faro, Portugal, September 2022

“On Context Consideration in Estimating Social Experience in Ecologically Valid In-the-Wild Setting”
Hayley Hung was invited at MSECP-Wild 2022 -Bangalore, India

“Influence-based Abstraction for Faster (Multiagent) Planning and Learning”
Frans Oliehoek keynote speaker at Berkeley MARL seminar, Berkeley University, USA

Knowledge Graphs for Impactful Data Science”
Victor de Boer keynote speaker at SEMPDW – CEUWS 2022 – Vienna, Austria 

Three approaches to rational proof in criminal cases”
Henry Prakken was invited speaker at the European Anti-Fraud Office 2022 – Brussels, Belgium

“Modular design patterns for systems that learn and reason”
Frank van Harmelen was keynote speaker at the International Semantic Web Summerschool, Bertinoro, Italy, 2022. 

“Communicative Robots for aligning humans and machines”
Piek Vossen keynote speaker at TNO App. AI Splash Event 2022, Jaarbeurs Utrecht, Netherlands

“LeoLani”
Invited keynote talk by Piek Vossen at Probus, Heerlen, The Netherlands

Tools for Collecting, Synchronizing, and Annotating Ecologically Valid Social Behaviou In-the-Wild”
Hayley Hung keynote speaker at Meet4MM – Lisbon, Portugal 

Self-Reflective Hybrid Intelligence: Combining Human with Artificial Intelligence and Logic
Catholijn Jonker keynote speaker at IC3K 2022 –  Valletta, Malta

“The effectiveness of Bidding Support Mechanisms”
Catholijn Jonker keynote speaker at FSDM 2022 (virtual)

“Meaningful human-control in Robotics and Decision Support Systems”
Catholijn Jonker keynote speaker at ECIAIR 2022 (virtual)

Principle-based and principled formal studies of argumentation: the case of gradual semantics.”
Henry Prakken was keynote speaker, at LNGAI 2022 – Zhuhai China.

“Ad Hoc Teamwork is Theoretically  Impossible, But We Should Do It Anyway” 
Frans Oliehoek and Robert Loftin were invited to present at the Ad-Hoc Teamwork Seminar Series of the TU Delft. (Online, October 2023).  

 “Planning and Learning in Structured Environments”
At the ML in PL conference, Frans Oliehoek gave an invited talk. (Warsaw, Poland, October 2023).  

Influence-based abstraction: guarantees & practical scale up for multiagent systems “ 
Frans Oliehoek was invited to talk at the 20th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST part of CONFEST 2023, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2023). 

Reinforcement Learning” 
As part of the Machine Learning Bootcamp (part of the Research Semester Programme Machine Learning Theory) at the CWI (Research Institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands), Frans Oliehoek gave a tutorial on reinforcement learning. (Amsterdam, Netherlands, Februari 2023). 

Machine Learning for Stochastic Networks” 
Frans Oliehoek was invited to contribute to the Young European Queueing Theorists (YEQT) workshop at TU/e, Eindhoven, Netherlands (November 2022). 

Bestaanszekerheid in de Data- gedreven Rechtsstaat: Handvatten uit de Systeemveiligheid” 
Roel Dobbe was invited to present at the Centrum voor Informatiebeveiliging en Privacybescherming, July 2023. 

“Trustworthy AI Governance: A socio-technical system safety perspective”  
Roel Dobbe was invited speaker at the EGOV 2023 Conference, Budapest, September 2023. 

“Safe Human-Machine (Re)configurations: Systems Thinking for Addressing the Socio-Material Impacts of AI” 
The Copernicus Instituut, Universiteit Utrecht, invited Roel Dobbe to present. (December 2023.) 

Safe Human-Machine (Re)configurations: Systems Thinking for Addressing the Socio-Material Impacts of AI”
Roel Dobbe was invited to contributed to the Workshop on Human-AI Relations by University of Zürich, Davos, January 2023. 

Hierarchical behavior and representations in reinforcement learning”   
Herke van Hoof was invited to give a tutorial on Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning at the International Workshop on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2023. 

Structure and hierarchies in reinforcement learning” 
Herke van Hoof gave an invited talk during an acedemic visits at LabAutomation, FHI Laboratoriumtechniek, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2023. 

Using learning and model-based methods for combinatorial problem solving. Combining learning and planning with value refinement networks”   
The Algorihmics group, TU Delft, invited Herke van Hoof to contribute to the ELLIIT focus period seminar series, 2022 

“Learnable and Interactive Autonomous Agents through Reinforcement Learning”
Shihan Wang was invited for a presentation and panel discussion on The 11th International Workshop on the Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS), In conjunction with AAMAS 2023 (London, UK, May 2023).

“Reinforcement Learning for Just-in-time Adaptive interventions in Healthcare”
Shihan Wang gave an invited lecture at the first winter school of The European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) February, 2023.

“Learning to Defer to One, Multiple, or a Population of Expert(s)”
Eric Nalisnick was invited speaker at the ELLIS Robust ML Workshop (Finland, September 2023).

“ChatGPT en andere taalmodellen” (ChatGPT and other language models)
Michiel van der Meer gave a presentation for the Management Team (MT) of the Dutch Normalisation Institute (Nederlands Normalisatie Instituut, NEN) in Delft (NL, 2023).

“Aspects of provability and interpretability”
Rineke Verbrugge was invited to give the prestigious 2023 Lindström Lectures, University of Gothenborg (Sweden, 2023).

Is the deep learning hype good or bad for the Semantic Web”
Ilaria Tiddi was invited to participate in a panel discussion at ISWC2022, Hangzhou, China, October 2022 (virtual).

“Robots that know, but how much do they know?”
Ilaria Tiddi was invited to present at the First International Workshop on Knowledge Science, TU/e, Netherlands, March 2022 (virtual).

“Hybrid Intelligence; The next AI generation. AI that replaces collaborates with people”
Ilaria Tiddi was invited to present at the Loria CNRS Lab in Nancy, France in Nov 2022.

PaCo Dataset: Partner selection and person perception in social interactions” 
Bernd Dudzik presented at ADS x HHAI: Industry Event, International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI), Amsterdam (NL), 2022.

“At the Intersection of ethics and STEM”
Bernd Dudzik participated in a Panel Discussion at the International Conference on Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDIT), Leiden (NL), 2022.

“Machine Learning for Stochastic Networks”
Frans Oliehoek was invited at The Young European Queueing Theorists (YEQT) workshop 2022 – TU/e, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

“Rigorous Automated Planning 2022”
Frans Oliehoek was invited at the Lorentz Center Workshop – Leiden, The Netherlands.

“Sequential decision making from the perspective of influence-based abstraction”
Frans Oliehoek was invited at the Software Science Seminar – Radboud University, The Netherlands.

“ELLIS PhD and Postdoc Summit 2022 (virtual)”
Frans Oliehoek was invited as panelist for the reinforcement learning panel.

“Epoch AI Symposium in collaboration with House of AI and TU Delft”
Lecture by Frans OliehoekDelft, The Netherlands.

“Interdisciplinary Insights into a Multimodal Social Signal Processing Approach for Team Interactions”
Hayley Hung was invited at the Team and Multi-Agent Dynamics Workshop – Tilburg, Netherlands.

“On Measuring Subjective Experience: Automated Approaches for Measuring Social Behaviour”
Hayley Hung was invited at the Science of the Performing Arts Group –  Goldsmiths University of London, UK.

“Towards Enhancing Human Social Experience in the Wild”
Hayley Hung was invited at the Florence Nightingale Colloquium – Leiden, Netherland.

“Towards estimating cohesion in-the-wild”
Hayley Hung was invited at the Grace (Computational models for the automated analysis of cohesion in small groups interactions) Project Final Event – Paris, France.

“Measuring Social Behaviour in the Wild Towards the Study of Authentic and Spontaneous Social Interactions at Fine Time Scales”
Hayley Hung was invited at the Neurolive Symposium – London, UK.

“Situation-Based Privacy Decisions: Privacy Assistants Working with Humans”
Pinar Yolum Birbil was invited to IJCAI-ECAI 2022 – Vienna, Austria.

“Estimating Context Specific Values from Natural Language”
Enrico Liscio has given an online seminar about his PhD work so far at North Carolina State University.

“Valeue Alignment in Human-AI Societies”
Enrico Liscio has given a seminar at IIIA-CSIC in Barcelona.

“Neural Ideograms and Equivariant Representation Learning”
Erik Bekkers was invited as panelist for the Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations Workshop at NeurIPS 2022 – New Orleans.

“Machine learning with algorithmic and structural priors for decision making”
Herke van Hoof was invited to the Sycamore lab, EPFL, 2022.

“Learning agent policies with RL and structure”
Herke van Hoof was invited to the Adaptive and learning agents workshop at AAMAS, 2022.

“Learning new heuristics for routing problems from data”
Herke van Hoof was invited to the Analytics & Optimization Group – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.