Meet our staff
| 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 |
| Name | Expertise |
|---|---|
| Raquel G. Alhama | computational linguistics, cognitive modeling of language |
| Fred Atilla | brain-computer interfaces, virtual reality |
| Desiderio Cano Porras | human-technology interaction, extended reality |
| Giovanni Cassani | computational psycholinguistics, language acquisition, computational linguistics |
| Iuliia Chaplinska | |
| 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 |
| Richard Dinga | |
| Chris Emmery | privacy and security in natural language processing |
| Eriko Fukuda | human development and learning |
| Mirjam de Haas | social robots, child-robot interaction, second language acquisition |
| 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 |
| Japke Karreman | Scientific Programmer MasterMinds |
| Murat Kirtay | |
| 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 | |
| Kiril Mitev | scientific programmer |
| 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 |
| Wendy Powell | virtual reality |
| 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 |
| Roi Santos Mateos | postdoc Art Recognition project / computer vision |
| 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 |
| Collin Turbyne | |
| Eva Vanmassenhove | neural machine translation, natural language processing (NLP), bias in NLP, cross-linguistic research |
| Travis Wiltshire | collaborative cognition, dynamical systems modeling |
| Federico Zamberlan | neuroscience, psychopharmacology, psychedelics |
| Name | Project/funding | Advisors |
|---|---|---|
| George Aalbers | IMPACT | Drew Hendrickson Mariek Vanden Abeele Loes Keijsers Eric 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 |
| Anna van Limpt-Broers | VSNU | Max Louwerse Marie Postma |
| Phillip Brown | virtual reality | Wendy Powell Pieter Spronck |
| Charlotte Croucher | virtual reality | Wendy Powell Pieter Spronck |
| Laduona Dai | VR in Education (Region Deal) | Merel Jung
Marie Postma |
| Mariana Dias Da Silva | TiCC-CoE | Marie Postma Eric Postma |
| Kyana van Eijndhoven | NWO; Team coordination in crisis situations | Travis Wiltshire Max Louwerse |
| Chris Emmery | Grzegorz Chrupala Eric Postma W. Daelemans (UoA) |
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| 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 |
| Shujing Ke | external, self-funded | Pieter Spronck Eric Postma |
| Nikki Leeuwis | external | Maryam Alimardani Max Louwerse |
| Guido Linders | VIBE | Max Louwerse Eric Postma |
| Zihao Liu | TISEM/Netspar | Peter de Goeij (TISEM) Andrew Hendrickson Eric Postma |
| Paris Mavromoustakos Blom | NWO, Data2GAME | Sander Bakkes (UU) Pieter Spronck |
| Hezha Mohammedkhan | Eric Postma Çiçek Güven |
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| Hosein Mohebbi | InDeep | Afra Alishahi Grzegorz Chrupala |
| Mohammad Ali Mousavi | VR & AR for Maintenance (Region Deal) | Wendy Powell Drew Hendrickson |
| Annemarie Nanne | TiCC-CoE | Sander Wubben (DCC) Guda van Noort (UvA) Marjolijn Antheunis (DCC) Eric Postma |
| 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 |
| Gabriel Raya | CERTIF-AI (NWO), JADS | Sebastian Olier Eric Postma |
| Lisa Rombout | TiCC-CoE | Marie Postma Max Louwerse |
| Judita Rudokaite | FAINT |
Lisanne Huis in 't Veld |
| Parisa Shayan | MODUS |
Martin Atzmüller (Osnabrück University) |
| Alexandra Sierra Rativa | TiCC-CoE | Marie Postma Max Louwerse Menno van Zaanen (NWU) |
| 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 |