AI facts and fun at the ELLIS Pub Quiz
To celebrate another successful year of ELLIS and share the holiday spirit among different ELLIS Units, the ELLIS Pub Quiz was held in a hybrid format with 36 people joining the event from different parts of Europe forming 6 teams, including two online teams from ELLIS unit Alicante, and ELLIS unit Freiburg respectively, and four […]
Celebrating the outstanding research of the Amsterdam AI ecosystem at NeurIPS Fest 2022
The ELLIS Unit Amsterdam saw an opportunity to put a spotlight on the Amsterdam AI ecosystem’s outstanding works which were accepted at the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). At the same time, the Unit intended to provide an avenue for the local ecosystem to meet, interact, and discuss cutting-edge works in AI. […]
Two MSc AI students join the ELLIS Unit Amsterdam as honours students
We are happy to announce the new addition to the ELLIS Unit Amsterdam community; two ELLIS Amsterdam MSc honours students. These excellent students are Piyush Bagad and Arsen Sheverdin. Each of the honours students will conduct an international project under the joint supervision of one ELLIS Member at the University of Amsterdam and one Member […]
GeoMedia Workshop 2022 brought together over 210 international participants to explore the vast richness of geometric structure in medical image data
The first international workshop on geometric deep learning in medical image analysis (GeoMedIA) was held as a full-day event at Hotel Casa in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on November 18, 2022. The workshop brought together over 210 attendees interested in the fields of geometric deep learning and medical image analysis. The workshop is a result of […]
Sara Magliacane joins AMLab as assistant professor
Dr. Sara Magliacane is moving from INDElab to join AMLab as a tenure-track assistant professor. She will continue working on causality and applications of causality to machine learning in order to improve the robustness and generalization of existing ML methods. This move strengthens the collaboration between the two groups under the ELLIS umbrella. Source: Amsterdam Department of Informatics Newsletter
12 MSc AI students receive Amsterdam ELLIS Unit BSc/MSc Travel Grants to present works at top-tier conferences
The ELLIS Amsterdam Unit continues to support and promote local excellence in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Through sponsorship of Qualcomm Technologies Inc., ELLIS Amsterdam Unit provides travel grants for Bsc and Msc students of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) to present their papers at top-tier ML or AI conferences. A more detailed […]
ELLIS Amsterdam welcome its newest members!
The ELLIS Amsterdam unit strives to attract and retain top AI talent. We are excited to have one Postdoc, and three PhDs, and two Faculty Members joining us! We are thrilled to welcome to our vibrant community of the ELLIS Amsterdam unit (from left to right, in no particular order): Mona Schirmer, David Zhang, Hazel […]
Evangelos Kanoulas appointed Professor of Information Retrieval and Evaluation
Dr. Evangelos Kanoulas, an ELLIS Amsterdam faculty, has been appointed professor of Information Retrieval and Evaluation, at the Informatics Institute of the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Kanoulas has had a very international and diverse career both in industry and academia. Among others, he was awarded an NWO VIDI […]
Geometric Deep Learning lecturer Erik Bekkers Lecturer of the Year
Dr Erik Bekkers, an ELLIS Amsterdam faculty, teaches Geometric Deep Learning in the Machine Learning Lab. He has been elected Lecturer of the Year 2022 at the Science Faculty. The annual UvA Lecturer of the Year award is facilitated by the students of the Central Student Council and ASVA Student Union. Erik Bekkers is currently […]
ELLIS Amsterdam’s new office: LAB42, the new digital innovation lab
ELLIS Amsterdam unit has recently moved to its new office, LAB42 of the University of Amsterdam. The lab is now home for students and researchers from UvA’s Informatics Institute, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and several companies working in the sector. LAB42 is also new office for other key players in the […]