People

The following people make up the User Centric Data Science group

Xueli Pan
PhD candidate

 I am a PhD candidate with a special focus on data quality of knowledge graphs.

Erica Iammarino
Research visitor

A PhD candidate of Università Politecnica delle Marche. Erica’s main research interests include the automatic processing of neuroimaging data, such as electroencephalography and magnetic resonance imaging, to assess stress and mental engagement, as well as to study structural and functional cortical connectivity under physiological and pathological conditions.

Ronald Siebes
Assistant Professor

Ronald is an Assistant Professor at the VU Amsterdam on various projects. I am currently spending most of my time within the Interconnect, ODISSEI and SSHOC-NL projects.

André Valdestilhas
Postdoc

André Valdestilhas is a Post-doctoral researcher working on the ODISSEI project

Rosie Zheng
PhD Researcher

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.

Bart van Leeuwen
Semantic Fireman

Bart is a firefighter and owner of Netage B.V. He is a guest researcher at UCDS.

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Richard Zijdeman
Guest researcher

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.

Jacco van Ossenbruggen
Full Professor

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.

Sarah Binta Alam Shoilee
PhD candidate

I am a PhD candidate, focusing on Linked Data visualisation and Knowledge Discovery, particularly for provenance research in colonial heritage objects.

Ahdi Alipour
PhD candidate

My research focuses on human-AI interaction, particularly on improving trust calibration to prevent both under- and over-reliance on intelligent agents. My project challenges the tendency of most systems to rely on generic user models by investigating how human factors, especially digital literacy, shape human-AI interaction. 

Maryam Alimardani
Associate Professor

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.

Andrei Nesterov
PhD candidate (visiting)

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.

Joséphine Mélot Chesnel
PhD candidate

I’m a PhD candidate belonging jointly to the UCDS and QDA groups, as well as the Hybrid Intelligence Centre. My work focus on how to design generative AI helping with decision making in order to foster calibrated trust (neither too much nor too little).

Lea Krause
Postdoc

I am a post-doc researcher interested working in the HAICu project on polyvocality in digital cultural heritage. 

Xander Wilcke
Postdoc researcher

Xander researches machine learning on multimodal knowledge graph

Victor de Boer
Associate Professor

I am associate professor (UHD) in the UCDS group and co-director of the Cultural AI lab. I am interested in user-centric AI to tackle research challenges in Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities and ICT for Development (ICT4D).

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