I am an Associate Professor (UHD) at the User-Centric Data Science group at the Computer Science department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) I am also a co-director of the Cultural AI Lab. In my research, I combine (Semantic) Web technologies with Human-Computer Interaction, Knowledge Representation and Information Extraction to tackle research challenges in various domains. These include Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities and ICT for Development (ICT4D). I am currently involved in the following research projects:
- HEDGE-IoT (2024-2027). HEDGE-IoT is a HorizonEurope project that proposes a novel Digital Framework which aims to deploy IoT assets at different levels of the energy system. We collaborate with TNO and Arnhems Buiten on IoT data conversion and enrichment; user-centric and explainable machine learning.
- Pressing Matter: Our role in this NWO project is about developing data models to support societal reconciliation with the colonial past and its afterlives.
- HAICu: In this NWO project we investigate perspective-aware AI to make digital heritage collections more accessible.
- Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect. In this project, I am involved in various sub-projects:
- Mapping Missionaries is a Network Institute Academy Assistant project that seeks to improve access to information about Dutch missionaries in the former colonies.
For other and older research projects, see the “research” tab.