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.

The real impact of AI is not just about groundbreaking technology – it is also about who owns it, what they want to do with it, and who can pay for it, argues Daniel Mügge, Professor of Political Arithmetic. Together ...

Meet Krish Raghav, new connector-in-chief at the UvA Data Science Centre. In this interview, he shares plans to connect people, ideas and projects across faculties and spark collaboration.

Although text-to-image generation is rapidly advancing, these AI models are mostly English-centric. This increases digital inequality for non-English speakers. Researchers at the UvA Faculty of Science have now ...

Although AI models are used worldwide, we don't know exactly how they get to their answers. Ana Lucic, Assistant Professor in AI, creates methods to understand the internals of these models. She also develops machine ...

Steeds meer bedrijven maken gebruik van AI-ondersteunde wervingssystemen om kandidaten vooraf te selecteren of sollicitanten te rangschikken. Hoewel deze instrumenten tijd kunnen besparen, brengen ze ook aanzienlijke ...

An increasing number of companies are using AI-assisted recruiting systems to preselect candidates or rank applicants. While these tools can save time, they also carry significant risks of discrimination. The HORIZON ...

Since its launch, feedback from students and staff about UvA AI Chat has been taken into account. This feedback is used to continuously improve UvA AI Chat for the context of the UvA. Read about current developments.

Are you a UvA researcher or staff member passionate about programming or other digital skills, and eager to teach others?The University Library offers 6 training seats to become a certified Carpentry instructor.

Large language models like ChatGPT often struggle with even slight modifications in logical reasoning problems. Martha Lewis, Assistant Professor of Neurosymbolic AI, aims to improve this by incorporating human logic ...

Children receiving pediatric implants can face serious complications later in life, because typical implants don’t grow with them. In a new research project of the UvA Molecular and Materials Design Technology hub, ...

Since this year, students and staff have been able to use UvA AI Chat, the University of Amsterdam’s own AI chat tool. But what exactly is it? Why did the UvA develop its own AI Chat? And how can it be used?