Research

Start September 2022
Distinguished Professor Michel Dumontier and Assistant Professor Remzi Celebi will lead AIDAVA, a new EU-funded Horizon project receiving €7.7 million in total. Together with 14 academic and industry partners, AIDAVA will develop and validate an AI-powered virtual assistant to improve the effectiveness of clinical care and support clinical research.

Start August 2022
Prof. Christopher Brewster participates in the EU Farmbook project, an EU-funded Horizon consortium supporting knowledge exchange between actors in the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS) in the European Union. Prof. Brewster receives €1.5 million for leading a work package on data management and technical infrastructure.

April 2022
Dr. Enrique Hortal is part of the JOINclusion partnership, which will build a collaborative serious game to help children in primary schools train empathy. JOINclusion is looking to foster the social inclusion of young immigrants and of refugees specifically. The project receives €290k in total. 

February 2022
Dr. Amir Ebrahimi Fard and prof. Nava Tintarev (both DKE) team up with Dr. Giulia Piccillo and Prof. Tina Comes (SBE) for the project The impact of repeated exposure to rumours on the belief system. The Maastricht Young Academy supports the project with a €15k grant for interdisciplinary projects.

January 2022
The interdisciplinary collaboration FOODSY - featuring prof. Anna Wilbik (DKE), prof. Ralf Peeters (DKE), prof. Frank Thuijsman (DKE), prof. Theo de Kok (TGX), prof. Pim Martens (UCV) and prof. Yvonne van der Meer (AMIBM) - receives a €20k Seed Fund for Sustainability Research Spearheads for the project Developing Sustainable Food Systems.

30 November 2021
As part of the Green Transport Delta consortium on electrification - which focuses on batteries as part of the transition towards sustainable mobility - Prof. Mark Winands, Prof. Frank Thuijsman, Prof. Anna Wilbik and Dr. Matúš Mihalák receive over €500.000. 

4 November 2021
Dutch parking multinational Q-Park announced the winners of its annual Student Awards this week. Mateusz Wiza, a recent graduate of the bachelor’s programme in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, was one of the winners to receive a €1.500 cash prize for his thesis.

20 September 2021
Prof. Nava Tintarev is a co-applicant in ROBUST, an NWO Long Term Programme led by Prof. Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam/ICAI). The ROBUST consortium wants to carry out multi-year research into reliable artificial intelligence. 

10 September 2021
William Lopez Jaramillo and supervisor Dr. Evgueni Smirnov win the award for the paper "Shapley-value based inductive conformal prediction" at the 10th Symposium on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications.

2 September 2021
For the paper "This Item Might Reinforce Your Opinion: Obfuscation and Labeling of Search Results to Mitigate Confirmation Bias" by Alisa Rieger, Tim Draws (both TU Delft), Mariët Theune (Twente University) and Nava Tintarev (DKE/TU Delft).

August 2021
For the paper 'Contrastive Self-supervised Learning for Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition' by Bulat Khaertdinov, Dr. Esam Ghaleb and Dr. Stelios Asteriadis, at the 2021 International Joint Conference on Biometrics.

May 2021
The Dutch Network of Women Professors announced the recipients of their annual travel fund earlier this month. Dr. Chiara Sironi will use the funds to travel to China.

5 April 2021
Together with Dr. Roel Aaij (PI, Nikhef) and Dr. Jacco de Vries (GWFP/Maastricht University), Dr. Cámpora receives €252k funding from the Netherlands eScience Center for the project High-throughput GPU computing for New Physics searches with electrons in LHCb.

15 January 2021
Dr. Rico Möckel coordinates the European CoRoSect consortium - funded through a €7 million grant from the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme - which will work towards automated insect farming.

2 December 2020
The new NWO Science Domain awards recognize inspirational scientists in five categories, among which societal impact. Staňková receives the €50.000 cash prize for her contributions to mathematics-based cancer therapies. 

September 2020
A one-year grant from the Gaspard Monge Program, which funds a postdoc position to study privacy-preserving algorithms for the distributed control of energy markets together with French energy company EDF.

22 July 2020
The European Commission has awarded nearly 4 million euros to the Innovative Training Network (ITN), which focuses on evolutionary game theory and is coordinated by Dr. Kateřina Staňková.

20 July 2020
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awards a KLEIN-1 grant to the project 'Shrinking the tree(s) of life to better understand the evolution of species'. 

11 June 2020
Starting in 2021, the LHCb detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider will use the GPU-powered Allen system to filter data; Dr. Cámpora was awarded the prize for his contribution to this innovation. 

01 September 2020 (start)
Dr. Apostolis Zarras is part of the HEIR consortium, which will provide threat identification and a cybersecurity knowledge base system for healthcare.

16 April 2020
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awards €570.000 for mathematics to aid metastatic cancer treatment.

24 February 2020
Awarded for the paper 'Hybrid Tiled Convolutional Neural Networks (HTCNN) Text Sentiment Classification' during ICAART2020 in Valletta, Malta.

01 January 2020
Dr. Stelios Asteriadis & team participate in the PROCare4Life consortium, which will build an integrated care ecosystem for elderly patients. They will focus on artificial intelligence for activity recognition and heterogeneous data fusion.

20 September 2019
The #MeTooMaastricht chatbot prototype won Best Paper Award at the 4th Workshop on Data Science for Social Good (SoGood 2019) in Würzburg, Germany. 

01 May 2019
Dr. Apostolis Zarras partakes in consortium aimed at providing data science tools for law enforcement agencies fighting against (cyber)crime and terrorism.

14 January 2019
Dr. Alexia Briassouli partakes in consortium set to design indoor and outdoor spaces, based on VR/AR environments that dynamically adapt to the end user’s experience.

13 December 2018
Dr. Kateřina Staňková co-leads winning team devising a multi-disciplinary approach for treatment of metastatic thyroid cancer.

04 December 2018
Honours path KE@Work wins international education prizes for Best University-Employer Partnership and in the category 'Engineering & IT'.

03 December 2018
‘Hiding in the Shadows: Empowering ARM for Stealthy Virtual Machine Introspection’ wins best paper award at ACSAC 2018.

01 April 2018
€2 million to start the Digital Ludeme Project at DKE, aiming to reconstruct and inter-relate 1,000 ancient games using artificial intelligence.

25 January 2018
8 DKE students and 5 DKE researchers win €5000 with colleagues from SBE, FPN and LAW.

29 November 2017
‘An fNIRS-based brain-machine interface for remote robot control’ wins poster prize at rtFIN2017.

06 October 2017
€1000 for intelligent robotic game devices assessing cognitive, physical and social capabilities in children and elderly people.

05 June 2017
Best paper award at the 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.

28 March 2017
Martin Rooijackers (Master’s student Artificial Intelligence) wins both the student-division and the mixed division at SSCAIT.

11 October 2016
Dennis Soemers (Master’s student Artificial Intelligence) wins best student paper at IEEE CIG 2016 and the General Video Game AI competition.

01 February 2016
Dr. Stelios Asteriadis partakes in consortium set to develop innovative educational tools for learning in formal and informal settings.

19 January 2016
Dr. Stelios Asteriadis partakes in consortium set to develop ICT care solutions for patients with dementias.

19 July 2015
‘Matching Terminological Heterogeneous Ontologies by Exploiting Partial Alignments’ wins best paper award at SEMAPRO 2015.