Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
I am a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam, where my research focuses on Information Retrieval, Language Technology, and Evaluation. I work on developing AI systems that retrieve, reason, interact, and generate in more autonomous and reliable ways, and I lead research on robustness, multimodal information access, and evaluation science. My contributions span conversational and agentic information access, adversarial robustness for retrieval models, speech- and vision-based retrieval, and new approaches to evaluating both retrieval and generative systems. I also co-lead several international benchmarking efforts, including TREC and CLEF, and collaborate regularly with industry on applied AI problems. Beyond academia, I am involved in several entrepreneurial initiatives. Through mnShot Labs I work with organizations on applied AI projects that require deep technical expertise. I co-founded Calli Labs, a joint venture focused on AI-driven tools for video content analysis and creation. Previously I co-founded Ellogon.AI a start up with a focus on improving cancer patient treatment. These activities reflect my broader interest in connecting research with real-world applications across domains such as media, diagnostics, and public-sector innovation.
Head of the IRLab (https://irlab.science.uva.nl/)
Head of the HuMIL group (http://ilps.science.uva.nl/human-machine-intelligence-lab/) Member of the ILPS group (http://ilps.science.uva.nl/) Lecturer for the UvA MSc in Artificial Intelligence (http://bit.ly/1M93LL6)
Member of the ILPS group (http://ilps.science.uva.nl/) Coordinator of the UvA MSc in Data Science (http://bit.ly/1SAiN1x) Lecturer for the UvA MSc in Artificial Intelligence (http://bit.ly/1M93LL6