Supervision

I have been supervising theses at bachelor and master level as well as internships. Congratulations to all my students who have succefully defending their theses!

Feel free to contact me if you want to have me as your supervisor or co-supervise students with me.

In addition, I am a supervisor for the Digital Humanities Minor.

Aligning Data Management Plans with Community Standards using FAIR Implementation Profiles

Student: Navroop K. Singh.
Type: BSc CS, VU, NL.
Keywords: FAIR Implementation Profile, FAIR Principles, Data Management Plans
>> conference paper (under submission at CAiSE'24)
>> The student also contributed to this conference paper (MTSR'23)
>> data: DOI
>> code: Github

Knowledge Modelling and Strategy Engineering in Reconnaissance Blind Chess

Student: Robin Stöhr (now a software engineer at Softwareingenieur).
Type: MSc AI, VU, NL.
Keywords: chess, machine learning, knowledge modelling, Reconnaissance blind chess
Co-supervisor: Zhisheng Huang
>> The Scorca bot Our bot is now #2 in the global learderboard!
>> workshop paper (TOM@ICML'23)
>> conference paper (ICAART'24)
>> code: Github & DOI
>> data: DOI

Seeing The Words: Evaluating AI-Generated Biblical Art

Student: Hidde Ngunjiri Gitau Makimei (now a master student of A.I. at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
Type: BSc CS, VU, NL.
Keywords: generative AI, bible, Dall E, Stable Diffusion
Co-supervisor: Willem van Peursen
>> exhibition
>> conference paper under submission
>> thesis abstract (BNAIC'23)
>> dataset

Examining the Cadastral Linked Open Data on the Web: Usability, Preservation, and FAIR Assessment (Internship at Kadaster)

Student: Jeroen Klaver.
Type: BSc CS, VU, NL.
Keywords: Geosptail data, FAIR data, cadastral data, data preservation
Co-supervisor: Alexandra Rowland (a.k.a. Lexi)

Towards FAIR Research Data Management: Ecosystem, Decision-making, and Use Cases

Student: Rahmi Ata Turan.
Type: BSc A.I., VU, NL.
Keywords: Data management, FAIR data, data management ecosystem
Co-supervisor: Zhisheng Huang

Surrealistic-Like Image Generation with Vision-Language Models

Student: Elif Ayten (now a master student in Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
Type: BSc A.I., VU, NL.
Keywords: Surrealism, image generation, computational art,
Co-supervisor: Hjalmar Snoep (Snoep Studio)
>> conference paper (BNAIC'23)

Converting and Enriching Geo-annotated Event Data: Integrating Information for Ukraine Resilience

Student: Manar Attar (now a master student in Data Science at the University of Amsterdam).
Type: BSc A.I., VU, NL.
Keywords: Linked open data, data integration, linked geospatial data, Ukraine resilience
Co-supervisor: Ronald Siebes
>> conference paper (resource and data track @ ACM SIGSPATIAL'23)
>> demo paper (BNAIC'23)
>> enriched datasets (the integrated dataset is available upon request)
>> code
>> project website

Simplifying Dutch Municipal Text: A Pivot-based Approach (Internship at Amsterdam Intelligence)

Student: Daniel Vlantis (now a master student in A.I. at the University of Amsterdam).
Type: BSc A.I., VU, NL.
Keywords: machine translation, NLP, text simplification, ChatGPT, Dutch municipal text
Co-supervisor: Iva Gornishka (Amsterdam Intelligence)
>> conference paper (under submission at COLING'24)
>> code

Evaluating automated translation of LGBTQ terms: towards multilingual Homosaurus

Student: Anna-Maja Kazarian (now a professional chess player)
Type: BSc A.I., VU, NL.
Keywords: machine translation, multilingual vocabulary, LGBTQ+
>> thesis (presented at GlobalDH'23)
>> code
DOI

Ketamine and Depression

Student: Ikrame Zizar (now a linked data engineer in IISG)
Type: MSc A.I., VU, NL.
Keywords: causal relation, ketamine, depression, knowledge graph
Co-supervisor: Zhisheng Huang, Ting Liu, Chengcheng Fu

Smart Urban Resilience: A linked Data Approach

Student: Tianyang Lu (now a software engineer in COMAC).
Type: MSc CS, VU, NL.
Keywords: Resilience data management, geo-spatial information, knowledge graphs
Co-supervisor: Zhisheng Huang

A Qualitative Investigation on the Performance of Geospatial Triplestores (internship at Kadaster)

Student: Khaled Rabata (now a linked data specialist at Taxonic)
Type: BSc A.I., VU, NL.
Keywords: Geo-spatial information, triple stores, knowledge base validation
Co-supervisor: Zhisheng Huang

Examining the Evolution of Identity Graphs Through Redirection

Student: Idries Nasim (a master student of A.I. at the UvA from autumn 2022)
Type: BSc CS, VU, NL.
Keywords: identity graph, knowledge graph, semantic web evolution.
>> extended thesis abstract (BNAIC'22)
>> publication (MPEDaW'22)
>> code

Free speech dialogues for harmony in human relations

Student: Stein de Bever (now a junior DevOps engineer at de Volksbank)
Type: CS/IMM, VU, NL.
Keywords: chatbot, human-agent interaction, computer-aid workforce training.
Co-supervised with Daniel Formolo (VU) and Tibor Bosse (RU Nijmegen)
Company in collaboration: WorkRate
>> publication (HCI'19)

Using human facial expressions for interpersonal stances

Student: Tico van der Laan (now a fleet manager at felyx and a master student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Type: CS/IMM, VU, NL.
Keywords: face recognition, image analysis, face detection, emotion detection.
Co-supervised with Daniel Formolo (VU) and Tibor Bosse (RU Nijmegen).

NeuroEvolution for Real-time Object Recognition

Student: Lucas de Vries (now a PhD candidate in Deep Learning for Neuroradiology at the Amsterdam University Medical Center)
Type: MSc, UvA, NL.
Keywords: neural evolutionary, Raspberry Pi, neural network topology.
Co-supervised with Gongjin Lan (VU) and Jadran Sirotkovic (Accenture).
>> publication (SSCI'19)
>> code


I am also a supervisor in the Digital Humanities Minor


Identifying Historical Occupations in Text using HISCO: A User-Centric Approach

Student: Guilherme Arashiro, Jaan Joosep Puusaag, Stacey Koolman
co-supervisor: Xander Wilcke
Type: project for minor, VU, NL.
Keywords: HISCO, named entity recognition, string matching
>> poster (DHBenelux'23)
>>code
>>paper