AI videos, memes and bizarre TikTok trends may often seem intended purely for entertainment, but they are increasingly playing a role in modern propaganda and geopolitical influence. In the new interdisciplinary ...

Dr Stefano Polla has been appointed Assistant Professor in Quantum Computing and Simulation for Quantum Chemistry and Materials. He will develop quantum computing algorithms for applications in chemistry, such as the ...

Current treatments for most brain diseases relieve symptoms but do not cure the disease. One of the main challenges is delivering a cure because drugs need to be able to cross the protective barrier surrounding the ...

At the end of April, LAB42 hosted the Amsterdam stop of Next Frontier AI, a European roadshow organised by SPRIND, Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. After earlier events in cities including ...

The Spotlight introduces a different Data Science Centre Affiliate Member every month. This month: Erkan Karabulut, PhD student at the Intelligent Data Engineering Lab (INDElab).

Sennay Ghebreab is professor of Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems at the UvA and founder of the Civic AI Lab, which researches how AI and data can promote equal opportunities in areas such as education, health ...

Language models like ChatGPT are not neutral. Without our realising it, they can absorb all kinds of bias – for example around gender and ethnicity – which then become increasingly embedded in the model. According to ...

Despite the fact that leaky blood vessels occur in many diseases and can be life-threatening, there is currently no medication available to address this. In a new research project by the UvA MMD TechHub, scientists ...

From traffic congestions to detecting health issues in the city: many social challenges might be better addressed using data collected by companies. Yet much of this information remains out of reach of public ...

The Spotlight introduces a different Data Science Centre Affiliate Member every month. This month: Gowreesh Mago, PhD Candidate at the Human Aligned Video AI Lab.

What links disturbed sleep and cognitive impairments in depression? What does the language you speak mean to you? And can AI reason in a way that resembles how humans think? These are the subjects of research by Mana ...

The Spotlight introduces a different Data Science Centre Affiliate Member every month. This month: Tessel Huibregtsen, PhD student at the Amsterdam Center for Computational Cardiology within the Faculty of Medicine.

According to the jury of the Dutch AI Award, Professor Max Welling is the person in the Netherlands who has made the most significant contribution to the AI ecosystem. He received the annual award during a gala in ...

Digital infrastructures play an increasingly important role in geopolitical conflicts. At the same time, the infrastructures of our society themselves are becoming ever more politicised. How can we learn to look ...

Curious about the work of our Data Science Centre Affiliate Members? This month, we introduce Melvin Wevers, Assistant Professor in Digital History at the Faculty of Humanities.