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Staff members with discipline Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.

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I use artificial intelligence, machine learning, and molecular modeling to study biological systems. My research focuses on understanding metalloenzymes by analyzing features from machine learning models that reproduce their biochemical properties. In... read more
Human-robot interaction, haptics
G.A. (Gloria) Araiza Illan
Contact
g.a.araiza.illan umcg.nl
+31 50 361 5166
Function
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sustainable and resilient urban planning and design,Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), climate change mitigation strategies and policies, spatial urban analytics- spatial statistics and modelling, GeoDesign, machine learning, and the integration of IoT... read more
Z. (Zahra) Assarkhaniki, Dr
Contact
z.assarkhaniki rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor of Sustainability and Planning
Computer Vision, Image analysis: Mathematical morphology, Connected filters, Segmentation, Machine Learning.
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Contact
m.babai rug.nl
Function
Scientific Programmer, Data Engineer/Scientist
Computing Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing, Computational Science, Neural Networks, Prototype-based systems, adaptive distance measures
M. (Michael) Biehl, Prof
Contact
m.biehl rug.nl
+31 50 36 33997
Function
"Adjunct Hoogleraar" (tenured, with ius promovendi)
E.O. (Bert) de Brock
Contact
e.o.de.brock rug.nl
+31 50 36 37315
Function
Professor Business Information Modelling
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, XAI, Interpretable Models, Interdisciplinary applications
K. (Kerstin) Bunte, Prof
Contact
k.bunte rug.nl
Function
Professor of Machine Learning for interdisciplinary data analysis
Information Policy

Technology Law

Data Protection Law

Cybercrime

Privacy

Security Sciences

Internet Governance

Privacy, communication technologies and indigenous peoples
J.A. (Joseph / a.k.a. Joe) Cannataci, Prof
Contact
j.a.cannataci rug.nl
Function
Chair in European Information Policy & Technology Law
event extaction; opinion minig, sentiment analysis, perspective extraction; abusive language; storyline & causal relation extration
T. (Tommaso) Caselli, PhD
Contact
t.caselli rug.nl
Function
Assistant professor
I am an Assistant Professor with Education Profile. My current research is focused on distributed decision making for smart environments, cyber-physical systems and digital twins, and pervasive computing for ambient intelligence, with a particular... read more
Industrial / Enterprise Information Systems
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems
Human-Centric AI / Linked Data & Knowledge / Human in the Loop
Product, Asset Lifecycle, and Maintenance Management
C. (Christos) Emmanouilidis, Dr
Contact
c.emmanouilidis rug.nl
Function
Associate Professor with Ius Promovendi
dr. S. (Sreejita) Ghosh, PhD
Contact
sreejita.ghosh rug.nl
Function
PhD student
Francesca is an interdisciplinary social scientist with a strong interest in micro-foundations of social phenomena. She uses theoretical analysis, agent-based modeling and lab experiments to investigate how individual minds are geared to achieve social... read more
F. (Francesca) Giardini, PhD
Contact
f.giardini rug.nl
Function
Associate professor
Expertise in CS, ISO standards, Molecular dynamics, Medical Informatics
N. (Nicolae) N. Goga
Contact
n.goga rug.nl
Function
Senior Researcher
Vakdidactiek informatica
Curriculumontwikkeling
Agent-based modeling
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Contact
n.grgurina rug.nl
+31 50 36 36069
Function
Teacher Educator Computer Science
Machine learning, Pattern recognition, Medical image analysis
J. (Jiapan) Guo, PhD
Contact
j.guo rug.nl
Function
Tenure Track Assistant Professor with education profile
Data Science, Machine learning, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Materials Science & Engineering
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Contact
n.haleem rug.nl
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Assistant Professor, Data Science & Society
I am following the traineeship data professional from Samenwerking Noord. This traineeship is facilitated by YER. As my first trainee position I will be the manager open source program office (OPSO) at the CIT. I will attend this position till the 30th of... read more
S.E.A. (Siebrant) Hendriks
Contact
s.e.a.hendriks rug.nl
+31 6 2737 2911
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Manager OSPO / Teammeber DCC
dr. H.D. (Hugo) Hogenbirk
Contact
h.d.hogenbirk rug.nl
Function
Postdoc
Radio Astronomy, Structure and Evolution of Galaxies, Interstellar Medium, Neutral Hydrogen in Galaxies 
prof. dr. J.M. (Thijs) van der Hulst
Contact
j.m.van.der.hulst rug.nl
+31 50 36 34064
Function
Emeritus Professor
interactive geografical map applications
Information Systems, Process Automation and Business Process Management, Adaptive Software Systems, Middleware, Databases, Service Oriented Architecture and Applications
D. (Dimka) Karastoyanova, Prof
Contact
d.karastoyanova rug.nl
Function
Professor of Information Systems
Economic Geography, Regional labour markets, Data Science, Natural language processing (NLP), Machine learning
I.P.S. (Steven) Kema, MSc
Contact
i.p.s.kema rug.nl
Function
PhD student
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Contact
m.kempe umcg.nl
Function
Assistant professor
Networked and Distributed Systems, Middleware, Event-based Systems
Ilya Lavrov is an interdisciplinary researcher specialising in resilient societies and decision-making in politics and business. With a keen interest in public policy, digitalisation, transdisciplinarity, cooperation and complex societal issues, he delves... read more
I. (Ilya) Lavrov
Contact
i.lavrov rug.nl
Function
Networked and Distributed Systems; Quality Monitoring in Stream Processing Systems; Privacy Protection in Event-Based Systems; Federated Learning in Rule Generation.
Process mining
Process modelling
Healthcare networks
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Contact
a.a.van.der.meer rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor Hydrogen & Fuel Cells
Main interests: Parallel Computing, Programming, Signal Processing, Algorithm Design
Lecturer of several courses:  Imperative Programming,  Functional Programming,  Signals and systems,  Compiler Construction,  Discrete Structures,  Operating Systems, ...
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Bio:
I joined the Computer Science department, Faculty of Science and Engineering at University of Groningen as a Postdoctoral Fellow in July 2019. In May 1, 2022 I started a new position with the CS department as an Assistant Professor. Prior to joining...
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Multi-Agent Systems
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Contact
n.orzan rug.nl
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egbert.otten umcg.nl
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Professor of NeuroMechanics and Prosthetics
Nearby Galaxies: structure, stellar populations, kinematics; Galaxy Formation and Evolution; Galaxy Evolution in Clusters
No picture available
Contact
r.f.peletier rug.nl
+31 50 36 36647
Function
Professor
I'm interested in digital social reading (how people write and read fiction online) and I use computational, qualitative, and quantitative methods to study how people read.

I'm Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project GOLEM (Graphs and...
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F. (Federico) Pianzola, PhD
Contact
f.pianzola rug.nl
+31 6 3198 4081
Function
Assistant Professor in Computational Humanities
My main focus is applying Artificial Intelligence and computational methods on medical problems. Specifically, I work on (f)MR images and eye-movement signals.

For more info please visit www.nejad.info
A. (Ashkan) Rahmani Nejad
Contact
a.nejad rug.nl
Function
Ph.D. Student / Early-Stage Researcher
Social Computing and Crowdsourcing
Network Science (large scale network analysis) -> graph based analysis, ML, NLP
Computer Networks, Cloud Computing
Recommender Systems
Energy-Efficient Network Architectures; Distributed Systems; Software-Defined Networks; Network Analysis; Algorithms;
Agent-based serious gaming for design in infrastructural projects, Systems engineering design, Modelling languages and techniques for complex interdisciplinary systems architectures
Current:
Digital image analysis and computer vision: 
Segmentation - Mathematical morphology - Connected filters - Biomedical imaging and visualization - Remote sensing - Astronomical image analysis
In the past:
Simulation of living systems - The...
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M.H.F. (Michael (he/him)) Wilkinson, Dr
Contact
m.h.f.wilkinson rug.nl
+31 50 36 38140
Function
Senior Lecturer/Associate professor
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