ELLIS PhD Program: Call for applications 2022
Apply by November 15th, 2022 to join the ELLIS PhD Program in 2023 The ELLIS PhD program is a key pillar of the ELLIS initiative whose goal is to foster and educate the best talent in machine learning and related research areas by pairing outstanding students with leading academic and industrial researchers in Europe. […]
ELLIS honours student publishes in NeurIPS
The ELLIS honours programme is for talented master students at the University of Amsterdam, allowing them to connect with leading researchers and top-tier academics in their field. As an ELLIS honours student, you will conduct a research project supervised by two ELLIS members at different ELLIS sites, and you will make an ELLIS-sponsored visit to your co-supervisor. A […]
ELLIS AMS team showcasing results in the BIG-bench challenge
We are very glad to announce the first ELLIS AMS team is going to showcase their results of the Beyond the Imitation Game Benchmark (BIG-bench) collaborative task. The talk will happen on Tuesday 5th October, 16:00. The seminar will be held online, the zoom meeting link will be sent out later. The Beyond the […]
New PhD student at the Amsterdam unit
The Amsterdam unit welcomes Tejaswi Kasarla. Tejaswi will start in October, working with Pascal Mettes and Rita Cucchiara on the action and intent understanding in videos. She is generally interested in research at the intersection of machine learning and computer vision and has worked on problems related to autonomous driving before at Bosch. She is […]
Amsterdam ELLIS unit sponsored $49500 by Google Cloud Platform
We are happy to announce that the Amsterdam ELLIS unit has been awarded €49500 in credit for the Google Cloud Platform! The credits will be used to support the unit’s diversity initiative. The Amsterdam ELLIS unit is committed to increasing diversity in machine learning research. Building off existing initiatives such as MLSS Indonesia and the […]
Amsterdam ELLIS team participates in the Data-Centric AI Competition challenge
In the spirit of community building, the Amsterdam ELLIS unit will start participating in data challenges! We are glad to announce that we have a new ELLIS team for the ELLIS challenge program. The team is participating the Data-Centric AI Competition. It is a collaboration between DeepLearning.AI and Landing AI, the Data-Centric AI Competition aims to […]
ELLIS PhD and Postdoc Summit
The ELLIS PhD and Postdoc Committee is pleased to announce the very first (virtual) ELLIS PhD and Postdoc Summit, which will take place on July 12-13, 2021. All ELLIS PhDs and postdocs are warmly invited to join us for two days of great talks on cutting-edge research in Machine Learning and interactive roundtable discussions […]
New PhD student at the Amsterdam unit
The Amsterdam unit welcomes Joris Baan, its first academic ELLIS PhD student. Joris will start in October, working with Raquel Fernández and Barbara Plank on advancing performance on language understanding tasks and shedding new light on interpretability questions, drawing inspiration from the way humans process language using gaze data. He is generally interested in research at […]
ELISE calls out for the best Artificial Intelligence Startups & SMEs!
ELISE is a network of artificial intelligence research hubs. Based on the highest level research, it spreads its knowledge and methods in academia, industry and society. The project has launched the first Open Call for the best SMEs and Startups that develop novel AI-based services or applications. Selected 16 companies will enter the 6-months Program […]
First ELLIS honours student publishes paper
The indivdual project of Tom Kersten, MSc AI en ELLIS Amsterdam honours student, was accepted to be published at the NAACL workshop DeeLIO. A preprint of the paper can be found here.