Aligning Data Management Plans with Community Standards using FAIR Implementation Profiles

Student: Navroop K. Singh (now a master's student at the famous Tinbergen Institute. Congratulations Navroop!).
Type: BSc CS, VU, NL.
Keywords: FAIR Implementation Profile, FAIR Principles, Data Management Plans
>> conference paper (MTSR'24)
>> The student also contributed to a conference paper (MTSR'23)
>> data:
>> code: Github
* Winner of the OSCA Awards*

Knowledge Modelling and Strategy Engineering in Reconnaissance Blind Chess

Student: Robin Stöhr (now a software engineer at Uber).
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 &
>> data:

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 to be submitted
>> 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 (now a Data Engineer at AURAI).
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 (now working at the ABN AMRO Bank).
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 the Chief Operating Officer of Daffee and the co-founder of Vervai).
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

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

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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