People

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.

Emma is an assistant professor of ethical computing at VU.  With her multidisciplinary experience, she has been researching computational methods, statistics, user interfaces and data visualizations that enable transparent and controllable AI systems. Modelling and visualizing AI errors is one of her main research topics.

I am an Associate Professor in the domains of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and human-robot interaction (HRI). In my research, I use wearable sensors and AI models to deliver personalized interaction with technology, particularly for the purpose of adaptive training and learning.

I am associate professor (UHD) of User-Centrid Data Science in the UCDS group and senior research fellow at Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. I am also co-director of the Cultural AI lab. I am interested in user-centric approaches to Knowledge Representation to tackle research challenges in Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities and ICT for Development (ICT4D).

I am an assistant professor at VU University Amsterdam working on the semantic web, social systems, controlled natural languages, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and bioinformatics.

I am a post-doc researcher interested in ethics of AI.

I am a PhD student at the VU working in the ODISSEI project on the Portal and Distributed Learning team.

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.

Researcher at UCDS, interested in Semantic Web and Linked Data for Cultural Heritage.

I am a PhD candidate, working on Machine Learning for IOT knowledge graphs in the Interconnect project.

I am a PhD candidate, investigating polyvocal knowledge representation for colonial cultural heritage.

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

PhD candidate at the Civic AI lab, focusing on bias modeling and explainable AI for non-discrimination and transparency within the public policy domain. Works in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior Affairs.

Johan Oomen works at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision as manager of the department Research and Heritage. He is also a researcher at the “User Centric Data Science” research group at VU University.

Collaboration with Deloitte

Maddalena Ghiotto is a PhD candidate working in the Hybrid Intelligence project on "Interaction Patterns for Polyvocal Knowledge Graphs".

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.

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.

Sjoerd Hendriks is a Dutch interaction designer based in Sweden, currently doing a PhD in Interaction Design. He is a guest researcher at UCDS.

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

Xander researches machine learning on multimodal knowledge graph