The following people make up the User Centric Data Science group
Andrei is a PhD-student at Human-Centered Data Analytics group and a member of the Cultural AI Lab. He investigates how to bring out multiple perspectives about digital cultural heritage objects and represent them in transparent narrative forms with semantic web technologies and machine learning.
Xander researches machine learning on multimodal knowledge graph
Alessio is a PhD candidate in the Neurorobotics Group at the IAS-Lab, University of Padua. His research explores Brain-Computer Interfaces, with an emphasis on the training process and user feedback. He aims to develop metrics to quantify user learning and improve the steepness of the learning curve.
I am a PhD candidate within the UCDS and Hybrid Intelligence Centre, working on improving Human-Robot Collaboration using Brain-Computer Interfaces. My goal is to develop a real-time neuroadaptive system by detecting error-related potentials in EEG data and leveraging reinforcement learning to update the robot’s behaviour.
I am an Associate Professor in the domains of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and human-robot interaction (HRI). I use wearable sensors and AI models to deliver personalized interaction with technology, particularly for the purpose of adaptive training and learning.
Jacco leads the User-centric Data Science research group. His research interests include assessment of data quality in large, heterogeneous research datasets in the digital humanities, large scale web data integration and linking in cultural heritage and other data rich domains.
André Valdestilhas is a Post-doctoral researcher working on the ODISSEI project
Richard Zijdeman is a social historian employed at IISH with a strong affinity for FAIR and Open Science infrastructure and innovative use of linked data in the social sciences and humanities. He is a guest researcher at UCDS.
Associated people, former group members and guests include
- Margherita Martorana – Researcher and former PhD candidate at UCDS
- Cristina Bucur – Researcher and former PhD candidate at UDCS
- Anca Dumitrache – Data Scientist and former PhD candidate at UDCS
- Chris Dijkshoorn – former PhD candidate at UDCS, currently at Rijksmuseum
- Claudia Libbi – Visiting Researcher Leiden University
- Dayana Spagnuelo – Researcher at TNO
- Jan Wielemaker – Author and main contributor SWI-Prolog.org
- Niels Ockeloen – PhD candidate, developer of Data2Documents
- Roberto Reda – Visiting researcher Università di Bologna
- Barry Nouwt – Guest researcher TNO
- Laura Daniele– Guest researcher TNO
- Antoine Isaac – Guest researcher Europeana/BNF
- Oana Inel – PhD candidate and researcher TUDelft
- Francis Dittoh – PhD candidate and UDS Ghana
- Dick Bulterman – Emeritus Professor
- Emma Beauxis-Aussalet – Former group member and assistant professor
- Roderick van der Weerdt – former PhD candidate at UCDS, currently at TNO
- Johan Oomen – former group member and head of research at Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
- Sebastiaan Berendsen – former PhD candidate at UCDS
- Maddalena Ghiotto – former PhD candidate at UCDS



