Meet our staff

Management team

Name	Expertise	Role
Marie Postma	education & technology, vocal and speech analytics	department chair
Pieter Spronck	machine learning, gaming research	vice chair
Max Louwerse	cognitive science, virtual reality	research leader cognitive science
Eric Postma	AI, affective computing, deep learning	research leader artificial intelligence, JADS liaison
Emmanuel Keuleers	distributional semantics, computational psycholinguistics	academic Director – BSc CSAI
Henry Brighton	cognitive science, decision science, machine learning, computational modeling of evolutionary and adaptive systems	academic Director – MSc CSAI
Drew Hendrickson	educational technologies	academic Director – MSc DSS

Staff

Raquel G. Alhama	computational linguistics, cognitive modeling of language
Maryam Alimardani	brain-computer interfaces, robotics
Afra Alishahi	cognitive modeling of language, computational linguistics
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
Chris Emmery	privacy and security in natural language processing
Eriko Fukuda	human development and learning
Çiçek Güven Özçelebi	network analysis
Mirjam de Haas	social robots, child-robot interaction, second language acquisition
Peter Hendrix	linguistics, language processing, statistics, time-to-event analysis, machine learning
Bertrand Higy	understanding visually grounded spoken language
Lisanne Huis in t Veld	cognitive neuroscience
Merel Jung	social signal processing, deep learning
Japke Karreman	scientific programmer
Michal Klincewicz	time perception, artificial moral reasoning, moral improvement with artificial intelligence
Peter de Kock	data science in Crime & Safety	Professor of Practise (JADS)
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
Itir Önal Ertugrul	face analysis and synthesis, deep learning, affective computing
Wendy Powell	virtual reality
Vaughan Powell	virtual reality
Martin Reynaert	computational linguistics, natural language processing
Paula Roncaglia
Stefan Samba	data processing, programming for AI	lecturer
Roi Santos Mateos	postdoc Art Recognition project / computer vision
Yash Satsangi	decision-theoretic planning, sequential decision making under uncertainty, reinforcement learning
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	__
Ilse Souhail-van de Pol	__	project manager Region Deal
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
Travis Wiltshire	collaborative cognition, dynamical systems modeling
Marijn van Wingerden	cognitive neuroscience, animal social behavior