Neuro-AI: Harnessing AI to understand computation in mind and brain
On June June 17th – 26th, the ABC Summer school “Neuro-AI: Harnessing AI to understand computation in mind and brain” took place at the University of Amsterdam. The ABC Summer School gives selected students the opportunity to get deep insights into the interesting interplay between cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence. The program includes masterclasses that […]
Belgium-Netherlands workshop on Reinforcement Learning (BeNeRL) 2024
On June 10th, the Belgium-Netherlands workshop on Reinforcement Learning (BeNeRL) at the University of Amsterdam. BeNeRl, sponsored by ELLIS unit Amsterdam, is an informal one-day workshop, intended to bring together reinforcement learning researchers from the Belgium-Netherlands region. This year, 130 PhD students, academic staff, students and industry employees registered for the event which featured 5 […]
Hack4Her 2024: A Celebration of Women in Tech and Innovation
From June 7th to June 9th, the 3rd Annual Hack4Her took place at VU Amsterdam. Hack4Her 2024, sponsored by ELLIS unit Amsterdam, brought together over 100 participants to promote women-focused tech spaces. Inspiring keynotes tackled gender gaps, intersectionality, and celebrated women’s historical contributions to tech. Hands-on workshops spanned JAX programming, model-based testing, technical interviews, data-driven […]
ELLIS unit Amsterdam Celebrates Academic Achievements of Two Recently Graduated Honours Students
ELLIS unit Amsterdam community acknowledges the remarkable achievements of two of our MSc Honours students whose thesis research endeavours have made impacts in their respective fields of study within the AI landscape, Larissa de Ruijter and Rahel Beloch.
NeurIPS Fest 2023: testament to the high caliber of research excellence within Amsterdam’s thriving AI ecosystem
On December 7th, a vibrant gathering of over 100 individuals marked the success of the NeurIPS Fest 2023 hosted by the ELLIS unit Amsterdam, the unit’s second successful organization of the NeurIPS poster preview party. Set against the backdrop of Lab42, the heart of digital innovation in Amsterdam, the event was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. […]
The UvA-Bosch Delta Lab 2 showcased its finest machine learning research
The Delta Lab 2 Showcase aimed to highlight the cutting-edge research produced through a successful collaboration between the University of Amsterdam and Bosch, as one of the key industry players in the AI ecosystem and an important supporter of the unit’s works. The ELLIS unit Amsterdam seeks to further promote quality AI research conducted locally […]
Amsterdam’s exceptional scientist is one of the recently appointed ELLIS Scholars
The European Laboratory of Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) society network has recently selected 33 new exceptional scientists, with three of the scientists are members of the ELLIS unit Amsterdam’s community, to become part of the growing network to consolidate efforts in driving AI research and innovation across Europe. The ELLIS unit Amsterdam is thrilled […]
ELLIS MSc Meetup connects outstanding MSc students of the ELLIS units in Amsterdam and Nijmegen
The ELLIS MSc Honours Programme of the ELLIS unit Amsterdam and the Excellence Fellowship of the ELLIS unit Nijmegen shares several characteristics which justify the importance of connecting the MSc students participating in the two programmes together. Aside from the fact that the two ELLIS units are geographically located in the Netherlands, the ELLIS unit […]
The ELLIS, AI4media, and AIDA Symposium on Large Language and Foundation Models call for deeper interactions and larger-scale initiatives
The arrival of ChatGPT and GPT4 last year marks a new era of AI research on foundation models. While scale is always a key factor in learning, these models have shown that scale has an unexpectedly pivotal impact on generalization and the importance of multimodality. This paves the way for AI subfields, such as language, […]
7 MSc AI Students received ELLIS Honours Certificates as recognition of their distinguished accomplishments
ELLIS unit Amsterdam congratulated the MSc Honours students who are graduating today! To celebrate the important milestones the Honours students have reached and to recognise their hard work and perseverance, the ELLIS unit Amsterdam organised an MSc Honours lunch. At the celebratory event, the ELLIS unit Amsterdam Director, Prof. dr. Cees Snoek handed out the […]