Our beautiful team and partners
Sijbren van Vaals
PhD researcher and Team Lead
Sijbren is a first-year PhD student within the department of Computational Linguistics, with a strong background in language technology.
Malvina Nissim
Full Professor
Malvina is a full professor of Computational Linguistics and Society, working in Natural Language Processing and its application to societally relevant problems.
Rik van Noord
Assistant Professor
Rik is an assistant professor at the department of Computational Linguistics, with particular expertise in semantic parsing, machine translation, and language modelling.
Alwin Wubs
Journalist and Editorial AI Lead at Dagblad van het Noorden
Alwin is a journalist and editorial AI lead at Dagblad van het Noorden, who draws editorial lessons from data, leveraging AI to help the newsroom.
Johan van der Meulen
Co-owner and Innovation Director at 8D
Johan is co-owner and innovation director at 8D. A design company aiming to make academic findings more tangible and implementable, by advocating participatory and action-based research.
Stephan Burghout
Product Owner at 8D
Stephan is a product owner at 8D with over 10 years of experience in project management, and has successfully completed over 20 projects in only three years.
Jeroen Jansen
Booster and Business Developer at AI Hub North
From the focus areas of Energy and (sustainable) logistics, Jeroen helps parties bring their innovations to the market faster and more effectively.