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: IoT data conversion and enrichment; user-centric and explainable machine learning
- HAICu: Perspective-aware AI to make digital heritage collections more accessible.
- InTaVia: making linked cultural heritage and biographical data usable for end-users
- Pressing Matter: developing data models to support societal reconciliation with the colonial past and its afterlives.
- Interconnect: machine learning on IoT and smart energy knowledge graphs
- Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect
- CARPA: responsible production using crowdsourcing in Africa
For other and older research projects, see the “research” tab.