Executive Board
Prof. Frank van Harmelen
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Prof. Catholijn Jonker
TU Delft
Prof. Maarten de Rijke
University of Amsterdam
Prof. Rineke Verbrugge
University of Groningen
Prof. Piek Vossen
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Prof. Pinar Yolum
Utrecht University
Prof. Joost Batenburg
Leiden University
Diversity Statement
We aim to create hybrid intelligence for everyone. To do this, we need an inclusive and diverse team of researchers. Therefore, everyone is welcome — our researchers are invited to bring their authentic whole selves to work. We like you to be you.
Participating researchers
Prof. Frank van Harmelen – Learning & Reasoning
Prof. Piek Vossen – Computational Lexicology
Prof. Dan Balliet – Human Cooperation
dr. Victor de Boer – Sematic Web
dr. Antske Fokkens – Computational Linguistics
dr. Florian Kunneman – Language Technology
Prof. Koen Hindriks – Social Robotics
dr. Jakub Tomczak – Machine Learning
dr. Eliseo Ferrante – Swarm Robotics
dr. Stefan Schlobach – Knowledge Representation
dr. Annette ten Teije – Learning & Reasoning
dr. Ilaria Tiddi – Explainable Machine Learning
dr. ir. Kim Baraka – Human-Robot Interaction
dr. Lucia Donatelli - Natural Language Understanding
Dr. Karine Miras – Evolutionary Robotics
Tiffany Matey
Anna Kuzina
Taewoon Kim
Urja Khurana
Merle Reimann
Loan Ho
Selene Baez
Lea Krause
Mike Ligthart
Andreas Sauter
Kevin Godin-Dubois
Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi
Prof. Maarten de Rijke – Information Retrieval
dr. Erik Bekkers – Machine Learning
dr. Herke van Hoof – Machine Learning for Robotics
Prof. Christof Monz – Machine Translation
dr. Eric Nalisnick – Machine Learning
dr. Andrew Yates – Information Retrieval
dr. Erman Acar – Knowledge Representation
Niklas Höpner
Kata Naszadi
Maria Heuss
Sharvaree Vadgama
Putra Manggala
Sergey Troshin
Prof. Catholijn Jonker – Interactive Intelligence
dr. Hayley Hung – Multimodal Interaction
Prof. Mark Neerincx – Human Centred Computing
dr. Myrthe Tielman – Conversational Agents
dr. Frans Oliehoek – Interactive Machine Learning
dr. Roel Dobbe – Ethics and Robotics
dr. Willem-Paul Brinkman – Virtual agents
dr. Pradeep Murukannaiah – Social agents
dr. Catharine Oertel genannt Bierbach – Conversational agents
prof. Ibo van der Poel – Ethics and Technology
dr. Virginia Dignum – Ethics of AI Systems (currently at Umeå University)
Maani Tajaddini
Pei-Yu Chen
Aishwarya Suresh
Bernd Dudzik
Íñigo Martinez De Rituerto De Troy
Enrico Liscio
Robert Loftin
Masha Tsfasman
Siddharth Mehrotra
Morita Tarvidians
Mustafa Mert Çelikok
Jonne Maas
Davide Dell’Anna
Prof. Rineke Verbrugge – Multi-agent Systems
dr. Davide Grossi – Multi-agent Decision Making
Prof. Bart Verheij – Argumentation Models
Nicole Orzan
Jordi Top
Ludi van Leeuwen
Prof. Holger Hoos – Machine Learning
Prof. Catholijn Jonker – Interactive Intelligence
Prof. Aske Plaat – Reinforcement Learning
Prof. Joost Batenburg – Visualisation
dr. Daan Pelt – Deep Learning
dr. Joost Broekens – Affective Computing
dr. Max van Duijn – Media Technology
Bram Renting
Bernard Hilpert
Prof. Henry Prakken – AI and Law
dr. Silja Rennooij – Bayesian Networks
Prof. Pinar Yolum – Privacy aware agents
dr. Shihan Wang – Safe reinforcement learning
Prof. Mehdi Dastani – Intelligent Systems
Prof. Frank Dignum – Social Multi-agent Systems (currently at Umeå University)
Emre Erdogan
Annet Onnes
Wijnand van Woerom
dr. Birna van Riemsdijk – Intimate Computing
prof. Dirk Heylen – Socially Intelligent Computing
dr. Shenghui Wang – Human Media Interaction
Delaram Javdanirikhtehgar
Johanna Wolff
dr. Michael Dale – Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies
drs. Jasper van der Waa – Liaison HI – TNO
Programme Manager – Wendy Aartsen
Secretary – Suzanne Spijkerman
Manager Operations – Myrra Carstens
Communication support – Lisette Immink