AI in education
How do you prepare students for a future in which AI plays an important role? And how do you implement AI in education in a responsible way?
AI at the UvA
Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of our society. As a university, we invest in AI research and in practical applications in education and operational management.
AI in numbers
5 university professors
2 degree programmes
14,000 m2 in LAB42
1 billlion in investments
Contact and collaboration
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Find an AI expert
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University Professors in AI
The UvA has established these special chairs in order to give extra impetus to AI research and teaching. -
Our network
Making Amsterdam a leading global hub for AI is a collaborative effort. The UvA is working with a wide range of partners in the private and public sector to make this goal a reality.
AI news
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Combating polarisation with computer models
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Best Paper Award at RecSys 2024
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Responsible AI is created together
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UvA honorary doctorates for Liesbet Geris, Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter
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Deepfakes with therapeutic effect
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ERC Starting Grant for Dimitris Tzionas
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New consortium develops advanced AI for surveillance robots
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Lucas de Vries Runner-up for Best Oral Paper Award
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AI empowers local communities
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Ten research projects selected for MMD hub grants
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Developing a method to make AI explainable to humans
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Alfons Hoekstra scientific director of the Molecular and Materials Design hub
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Science Park start-up raises $30 million to tackle climate change
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Can AI reduce animal testing – and what about bias?
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Jelle van Dijk won 2nd prize Poster Award
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The calming effects of a well-designed building
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AI everywhere, but without sky-high energy usage
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ICLR 2024 Test of Time Award for Max Welling
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Reducing bias in medical AI solutions
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Harrie Oosterhuis received Andreas Bonn medal
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Martin Oswald receives Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
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Fernando P. Santos involved in a granted NWO-M project
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Maarten de Rijke received Keith van Rijsbergen Award
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Gravitation grant for AI-help in designing blindness therapy
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Gravitation grants for a 'brain atlas', challenges in Cyber Security, electro-energy and AI-help in designing blindness therapy
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SCRIPT project
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NWO ENW-M grants for three UvA Faculty of Science researchers
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Publication about the importance of creating effective risk mitigation policies
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Ellogon.AI wins the preliminary National Zorginnovatieprijs 2024
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60% of Dutch people have no idea where to express concerns about digital technology
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AI in your own hands
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Language technology for the social good
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AI helps chemists develop new, sustainable materials
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Autonomous synthesis robot uses AI to speed up chemical discovery
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ELSA status for AI for Health Equity Lab
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Ellogon.AI and Kepler Vision to regional preliminary round Zorginnovatieprijs 2024
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Inaugural lecture of Sennay Ghebreab
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NWO Dutch-Ukrainian collaboration grant for Victoria Degeler
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How do you humanise talking machines (but without the bad parts)?
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NWO/CAS Green Water Processes grant for Victoria Degeler
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Surveillance Microcosms: A GDC Masterclass by Dr Mathias Klang (Fordham University)
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Achmea SASS grant for deepfake therapy to help victims of sexual violence
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Somaya Ben Allouch appointed fellow Netherlands Academy of Engineering
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Alice & Eve Workshop 2023, a successful event
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Jean Wagemans appointed Professor of Cognition, Communication and Argumentation
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One year LAB42!
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Benny Akesson Receives Prestigious Test Of Time Award at ESWEEK 2023 for Memory Controller Research
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Platformization Reading Group for Early Career Scholars
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Computational Social Science and the Future of AI in Society
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GDC Research Seminar Series
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E-module for students on responsible use of AI
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Education Day UvA IvI / ILLC 2023
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Data Science Centre launches pioneering research programme on AI involving all 7 UvA faculties
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UvA MSc AI students publish paper at ACL
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Sebastian Schelter won two awards at the ACM SIGMOD Conference
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MSc AI student combines geometry and topology in ICML paper
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Most visionary paper for Civic AI Lab members
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When will robust AI-supported medical imaging finally become a reality?
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‘Make the Netherlands a frontrunner in responsible AI’
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Grant for research project on Conversational AI
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Social robot improves math education in playful and personalized way
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GDC PhD Workshop
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Master AI Student Publishes in Most Prestigious AI Conference
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Using machine learning to analyse samples with many unknown chemical components
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GDC Master Class on Rogue Digital Cultures: Affect, Elementalism, Temporality
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UvA and NFI open forensic research lab 'AI4forensics'
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GDC Research Seminar Series
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Sennay Ghebreab appointed professor of Socially Intelligent AI
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GDC Master Class on Figures and Figurations as a Framework for Studying Digital Memory
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UvA impact stories
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Reading Group: Platformization: A Reading Group for Early Career Scholars
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GDC Master Class on Political Economic Methods: Following the Money in the Age of Platforms
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ROBUST AI programme receives additional €25 million in funding from Dutch Research Council
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Grant for EU research project on explainable artificial intelligence
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Dante Niewenhuis, MSc student AI, publishes work at ECTA'22
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UvA honorary doctorates for psychiatrist Vikram Patel and computer scientist Christopher Manning
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KHMW Young Talent prize for two students in the College of Informatics
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PhD student improves image classification with just one extra line of code
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New methods NFI and UvA for recognizing deepfakes
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Save the Date: The Societal Impact of AI & Data Science, 24 March 2023
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Deeptherapy technology for victims with PTSD and moral injury
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OPTIMAL Researchers accepted to the #AAAI23 Lab Forum (February 7-8, 2023)
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Opening Delta Lab 2
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New National AI and Ethics course
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Recap: grand opening LAB42
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Nieuwe cursus Nationale AI en Ethiek
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An AI-system that explains its own outcomes can improve heart examination for underserved communities
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Shaping the technologies that impact our democracy
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AI learns when it is safer to leave a decision to a human expert
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3DUniversum, spin-off of the Informatics Institute awarded € 1M grant
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Register now for Data Science Day 2022 – workshops, pitches and keynote presentations
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Evangelos Kanoulas appointed Professor of Information Retrieval and Evaluation
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Quickly or slowly, gently or firmly?
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State Commission against Discrimination and Racism
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Making data management responsible
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How complexity science contributes to the UvA Centre for Urban Mental Health
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Battle of the Institutions
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Amsterdam Business School helps make flying safer
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Successful FACT-AI course leads to student awards