Biography

Current positions

2020-> : Full professor Multimedia Analytics , in the Informatics Institute University of Amsterdam

Current management positions

2020->: Board Member Ellis Unit Amsterdam
2020-> : Ellis representative UNL AI-knowledge Table
2020->: Advisory Board Member Centre of Expertise Applied Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
2019-> : Director of the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence, location Amsterdam
2018 : Co-founder of the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence

Research positions

2023-> : Scientific co-director AI4Forensics Lab (Innovation Center for AI)
2023->: Management Team AI4Fintech program
2018-> : Scientific co-director PoliceLab AI (Innovation Center for AI)
2019-> : Scientific co-director AI for Medical Imaging Lab (Innovation Center for AI)

Past positions

2014-2020; : Full professor (0.2fte) Data Science for Business Analytics, Amsterdam Business School University of Amsterdam

2003-2020; : Associate Professor (0.8fte) Informatics Institute University of Amsterdam

2016-2019 : Director of the Informatics Institute University of Amsterdam

2015-2016; : Member of the management team of the Informatics Institute

2013-2016; : Associate Director of Amsterdam Data Science

2011-2014; : Part-time affiliation with ISIS spin-off Euvision Technologies

(acquired by Qualcomm in 2014)

Member of the board: Forensic Intelligence Network of Excellence

2004-2009: Part-time affiliation with the Netherlands Forensic Institute

1997-2002 : Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam

1998: august - november : Visiting scholar at the Visual Computing Lab (with Ramesh Jain and Simone Santini), University of California San Diego

1993-1996 : Scientific researcher at the University of Amsterdam (post-doc) on a SION-sponsered project Model Based Analysis of Image Sequences

1992 january-june: Visiting researcher in the Image Processing and Analysis Group at Yale University.

Education

2019: Qualification Academic Leadership

2014: University Teaching Qualification

1988-1993 : Ph.D. University of Amsterdam, thesis "Shape Analysis of Digital Curves".

1983-1988 : M.Sc in Computer Science, Free University Amsterdam (cum laude)

Awards

Best entry ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge (2014)

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Prize Paper Award (2012)

Best paper runner up award ACM CIVR (2012)

Best paper award ACM CIVR (2010)

Best demo award ACM Multimedia (2005)

Research history

I did my masters at the Free University Amsterdam in Computer Science with a specialization in medical computer science. During my PhD work I focussed on image analysis both from a theoretical point of view, establishing the limits in accuracy one can achieve when measuring shape on a digital grid, to more applied shape analysis in biological and medical images. Part of this research was on deformable shape models and performed at Yale University. From there I moved to document and video analysis, spending four months in San Diego studying film theory and how it can help automatic video analysis, and subsequently more and more into the development of methods for accessing large image and video collections by their content. In such a setting, next to image analysis and understanding, user interaction is a crucial element and with it comes the need for advanced visualizations of the collection and the results of user queries. Currently we are taking this a step further into multimedia analytics being the integration of multimedia analysis, multimedia mining, information visualization, and multimedia interaction into a coherent framework yielding more than its constituent components.

Much of the research has been done in a multi-disciplinary setting, with applications in biology, medicine, broadcasting, forensics, urban analytics, and cultural heritage.

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