Tilburg University department Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence

Meet our staff

Research and Education Management
Name Expertise Management Role
Marie Postma education & technology, virtual reality, affective computing Department Chair
Maryam Alimardani brain-computer interfaces, robotics Research Coordinator
Lisanne Huis in t Veld cognitive neuroscience Innovation Czar
Max Louwerse cognitive science, virtual reality Research Unit leader Human - AI Interaction
Eric Postma AI, affective computing, deep learning Research Unit leader Deep Learning for Perception, JADS
Afra Alishahi cognitive modelling of language, computational linguistics Research Unit leader Computational Linguistics
Pieter Spronck machine learning, gaming research Research Unit leader Autonomous Agents & Gaming
Emmanuel Keuleers distributional semantics, computational psycholinguistics Academic Director – BSc CSAI
Henry Brighton cognitive science, decision science, machine learning, computational modelling of evolutionary and adaptive systems Academic Director – MSc CSAI
Drew Hendrickson educational technologies Academic Director – MSc DSS
Çiçek Güven Özçelebi network analysis Thesis Coordinator BSc
Marijn van Wingerden cognitive neuroscience, animal social behavior Thesis Coordinator MSc

 

Staff
Name Expertise
Raquel G. Alhama computational linguistics, cognitive modeling of language
Fred Atilla brain-computer interfaces, virtual reality
Fred Blain

machine translation, quality estimation, natural language processing, interpreting

Harm Brouwer neurocomputation of language, neurocomputational modeling
Desiderio Cano Porras human-technology interaction, extended reality
Giovanni Cassani computational psycholinguistics, language acquisition, computational linguistics
Grzegorz Chrupala computational linguistics
Silvy Collin cognitive neuroscience, cognitive science
Boris Čule data mining, machine learning, AI
Mirella De Sisto

postdoc SIGNON project / linguistics, phonology, digital humanities

Mariana Dias Da Silva  
Richard Dinga  
Chris Emmery privacy and security in natural language processing
Eriko Fukuda human development and learning
Peter Hendrix linguistics, language processing, statistics, time-to-event analysis, machine learning
Lisanne Huis in t Veld cognitive neuroscience
Merel Jung social signal processing, deep learning
Seyed Mostafa Kia

machine learning, neuroimaging, neuroinformatics, precision medicine, mental health

Japke Karreman Scientific Programmer MasterMinds
Murat Kirtay robotics, cognitive systems, machine learning
Michal Klincewicz time perception, artificial moral reasoning, moral improvement with artificial intelligence
Peter de Kock data science in Crime & Safety
Samaneh Khoshrou Human-AI teaming, machine learning, responsible data science
Martijn van Leeuwen

medical image analysis,  deep learning

Paris Mavromoustakos Blom

game AI, player modeling, serious games, games for health, E-sports, affective computing

Gonzalo Nápoles machine learning, neural networks, fuzzy cognitive maps
Bruno Nicenboim computational cognitive modeling, psycholinguistics, Bayesian methods
Juan Sebastian Olier unsupervised learning, autoencoders
Sharon Ong image and signal processing

Faezeh Pour Hashemi

 
Wendy Powell virtual reality

Nevena Ranković

software engineering, orthogonal arrays, robust design of experiment, neural networks, machine learning
Martin Reynaert computational linguistics, natural language processing
Paula Roncaglia language and music perception
Mojtaba Rostami Kandroodi

machine learning, cognitive modeling, reinforcement learning & decision making, deep neural networks, image processing, robotics

Stijn Rotman machine learning, data mining
Görkem Saygili computer vision, medical image analysis, deep learning 
‪Dimitar Shterionov machine translation (statistical and neural), quality estimation, automatic post-editing, low-resource MT
Mirjam Siesling Program Manager MindLabs
Ilse Souhail-van de Pol Project Manager MasterMinds
Giacomo Spigler deep learning and deep reinforcement learning
Richard Starmans statistical learning, foundations of AI and data science
Dan Stowell machine learning, deep learning, biodiversity, audio, animal vocal communication
Eva Vanmassenhove neural machine translation, natural language processing (NLP), bias in NLP, cross-linguistic research
Noortje Venhuizen cognitive modeling, semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics
Travis Wiltshire collaborative cognition, dynamical systems modeling
Federico Zamberlan neuroscience, psychopharmacology, psychedelics

 

PhD researchers
Name Project/funding Advisors
George Aalbers IMPACT Drew Hendrickson
Mariek Vanden Abeele
Loes Keijsers
Eric Postma
Fred Atilla   Maryam Alimardani
Marie Postma
Tycho de Back CAMPIONE Max Louwerse
Eric Postma
Stefan Bloemheuvel Di-Plast/JADS Martin Atzmüller (Osnabrück University)
Eric Postma
Sander Boelders external, ETZ

Sharon Ong
Karin Gehring (ETZ)
Eric Postma

Anna van Limpt-Broers VSNU Max Louwerse
Marie Postma
Phillip Brown virtual reality Wendy Powell
Pieter Spronck
Hazal Çolak external Eric Postma
Gonzalo Nápoles
Çiçek Güven
Charlotte Croucher external, virtual reality Wendy Powell
Pieter Spronck
Laduona Dai VR in Education (Region Deal) Merel Jung
Marie Postma
Kyana van Eijndhoven NWO; Team coordination in crisis situations Travis Wiltshire
Max Louwerse
Lieke Gelderloos TiCC-CoE Afra Alishahi
Grzegorz Chrupala
Eric Postma
Annabel Groenenberg external, ETZ Wendy Powell
Max Louwerse
Gianluca Guglielmo Serious Games for Logistics (Region Deal) Lisanne Huis in 't Veld
Michal Klincewicz
Nils Hendrix Jeroen Bosch Hospital 's-Hertogenbosch/JADS Sharon Ong
Matthieu Rutten (JBZ)
Bram van Ginneken (RUMC)
Eric Postma
Jurgen van den Hoogen Di-Plast/JADS Martin Atzmüller (Osnabrück University)
Eric Postma
Rastislav Hronský JADS

Emmanuel Keuleers
Max Louwerse
Wijnand IJsselsteijn (TUE)

Shujing Ke external, self-funded Pieter Spronck
Nikki Leeuwis external Maryam Alimardani
Max Louwerse
Guido Linders VIBE Max Louwerse
Zihao Liu TISEM/Netspar Peter de Goeij (TISEM)
Andrew Hendrickson
Eric Postma
Hezha Mohammedkhan Zero Hunger Lab Eric Postma
Çiçek Güven
Hosein Mohebbi InDeep Afra Alishahi
Grzegorz Chrupala
Mohammad Ali Mousavi VR & AR for Maintenance (Region Deal) Wendy Powell
Drew Hendrickson
Büşra Özgöde Yigin external Görkem Saygili
Javad Pourmostafa external,  An NMT Framework Based on Language Understanding Dimitar Shterionov
Pieter Spronck
Niloy Purkait Predicting Behavior (Region Deal)

Henry Brighton
Emmanuel Keuleers
Eric Postma

Gabriel Raya CERTIF-AI (NWO), JADS Sebastian Olier
Eric Postma
Lisa Rombout TiCC-CoE Marie Postma
Max Louwerse
Stijn Rotman   Boris Čule
Eric Postma
Judita Rudokaite FAINT

Lisanne Huis in 't Veld
Sharon Ong
Mart Janssen (Sanquin Research)
Eric Postma

Parisa Shayan external, MODUS

Martin Atzmüller (Osnabrück University)
Max Louwerse
Menno van Zaanen (NWU)

Gaofei Shen InDeep Afra Alishahi
Grzegorz Chrupala
Mahmoud Shrokrollahi Far external Harry Bunt
Jaap van den Herik
Herman Beck (DCU)
Yustinus Soelistio external Fons Maes (DCC)
Eric Postma
Rowena Summerlin external Wendy Powell
Pieter Spronck
Julija Vaitonyte VIBE Max Louwerse
Maryam Alimardani
Georgios Vlassopoulos KPN/JADS Henry Brighton
Vlado Menkovski (TUE)
Mykola Pechenizkiy (TUE)
Eric Postma
Yixia Wang CSC Emmanuel Keuleers
Evy van Weelden VR for Air Force (Region Deal) Maryam Alimardani
Travis Wiltshire