N. Tintarev

 I am a Full Professor in Explainable AI at Maastricht University in the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS) where I am the Director of Research. I am also a member of the Explainable AI (XAI) research theme, which is an interdisciplinary field of research focusing on providing explanations of AI-driven systems.  I completed my PhD in 2010 at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. 

My research is funded by projects in the field of human-computer interaction in artificial advice-giving systems, such as recommender systems; specifically developing the state-of-the-art for automatically generated explanations (transparency) and explanation interfaces (recourse and control). These include EU Marie-Curie ITN on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (2.8M). I was a founding Co-Investigator in the ROBUST consortium to carry out long term (10-years, ~95M) research into trustworthy artificial intelligence. I am also a co-lab director of the TAIM lab, working on trustworthy media, in collaboration with UvA and RTL. I regularly shape national (IPN board member, incoming 2026; On NWO-ENW domain advisory committee Computer Science, the Informaticatafel) and international scientific research programs (e.g., steering boards, editorial board of journals, and as program chair of conferences), and actively organize and contribute to high-level strategic workshops relating to responsible data science, both in the Netherlands and internationally. I am a senior member of the ACM. I regularly examine PhD dissertations, and review national (primarily NWO) and international grant proposals. 



Relevant keywords: explanations, natural language generation, human-computer interaction, personalization (recommender systems), intelligent user interfaces, diversity, filter bubbles, responsible data analytics.