2021 - present: Assistant Professor in Hybrid Intelligence, Knowledge in AI group, VU Amsterdam
2018 - 2021: Research Associate in the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning group and the Amsterdam Cooperation Lab, collaborating with Dr. Daniel Balliet, Dr. Annette ten Teije, and Prof. Frank van Harmelen, VU Amsterdam
2012 - 2018: Ph.D. and early post-doc in the Intelligent System and Data Science group, The Open University, UK
Education
Ph.D. and early post-doc in the Intelligent System and Data Science group at The Open University, UK (2012-2018)
Background
Assistant Professor in Hybrid Intelligence at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, focusing on creating systems that generate complex narratives through a combination of machine learning, semantic technologies, open data, and cognitive theories, mostly applied in e-Science and robotics scenarios. Research interests include hybrid intelligence, knowledge representation, machine learning, e-Science, and ethical AI.
Miscellany
Other stuff I do:
- Program Chair of the Hybrid Human-AI Conference (HHAI2023) in Munich, Germany
- Editor-in-Chief of the CEUR Workshop series (CEUR-WS) since 2021
- Part of conference Organising Committees for HHAI2022, ESWC2022, ESWC2021, CIKM2020, Semantics2021, Semantics2020, K-CAP2017
- Member of the Knowledge Capture (K-CAP) Steering Committee between 2017 and 2022
- Helped organize the Semantic Web Summer School in 2015 and 2016
- Organized several workshops including the Application of Semantic Technologies in Robotics workshops, Re-Coding Black Mirror workshop series, and Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery workshops at ECML2014 and ECML2015
- Furthest point driven by own car: Mongolia (did not go very well)