Data Science @ UM

11 DKE students listed in Dutch ‘Top 500 tech talents under 26’

Technology conference TNW catalogues 500 of the Dutch tech world’s most talented people under the age of 26. This year’s list – the T500 – features three alumni and eight current students of the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE). Among them is Dirk Bongers, DKE master's student.

Big data in healthcare

How can you further improve healthcare with the use of ‘big data’? That question is central to many scientific studies worldwide. Last month, two PhD candidates at Maastricht University defended their theses based on this same key question.

Stella Maris Student Rick Okkersen (14) spins up a grin cryptocurrency miner in one day

Odd one out: student presents bachelor thesis at esteemed conference

Philippe Debie is literally going the extra mile to present his bachelor thesis at a renowned international conference in Santiago, Chile.

Master in BISS: for the data architects of the future

ICT care solutions for patients with Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s Disease

As part of the European consortium behind the ICT4Life project, Dr. Stelios Asteriadis and his group developed personalized care solutions for patients with neurodegenerative disorders.

Increased wealth of knowledge at Brightlands Smart Services Campus

Maastricht University (UM), Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (Zuyd) and the Open University (OU) will expand their activities at the Brightlands Smart Services Campus in Heerlen. The three knowledge institutions now each start their own institute. They continue their successful cooperation through joint projects. The new initiatives will work (together) more decisively on innovation, research and education in the field of digital societies.

Five years KE@Work, more A-team than Beauty and the Beast

What makes the KE@Work partnership unique, and which philosophy is behind the programme’s collaboration?

Solid as a cloud

With his new project Solid, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, tries to give users back ownership of their data. The internet hasn’t developed in the way he intended it. Data science progresses at a dizzying pace – are the people in the driver’s seat aware of their responsibility? We asked Gerhard Weiss, Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Frank Thuijsman, Professor Strategic Optimization and Data Science.

Kateřina Staňková and team win $50.000 to outsmart thyroid cancer

Kateřina Staňková, assistant professor at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), co-led her team through a great challenge, resulting in a seed grant to advance their strategy to combat thyroid cancer.

Two silver Reimagine Education Awards for KE@Work

KE@Work won a silver award in the category Best Employer-University Partnership during the gala ceremony in San Francisco.

UM and Dutch Embassy host Berlin Science Week event

Maastricht University (UM) is the only Dutch university to have organised an event together with the Dutch Embassy during the famous Berlin Science Week.

BISS Institute: customized data-science education

Postdoc part of ESOF Panel on AI

Amrapali Zaveri, postdoc at IDS,  was part of a panel on “Increasing Scientific Productivity through Artificial Intelligence” of the EuroScience Open Forum conference.

Data scientists have the future (and control it)

Celebration of the 25^th anniversary of the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE).

Data protection in the 21st century

At the 25^th of May the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect. Applicable to the entire EU, its aim is to protect the individual rights of citizens while guaranteeing free and secure movement of personal data within the EU. Cosimo Monda, head of the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity at the UM Faculty of Law, explains the consequences. “Companies and public bodies alike can benefit – if they come prepared.”

Can we use Artificial Intelligence to improve our educational system?

Do we want, and is it possible, to improve our educational system via Artificial Intelligence? This was the central question during a special Ideation Session recently hosted by the Brightlands BISS Campus in Heerlen.