Maastricht University Institute of Data Science

Event update:

We are proud to introduce the second panel speaker on the key issues, challenges and opportunities in researching Central and Eastern Europe today:

Prof Adriana Iamnitchi, Professor and Chair of Computational Social Sciences at Maastricht University.
@umids.bsky.social

VACANCY ALERT:
PhD in Adaptive AI Defense: Reinforcement Learning for Cybersecurity
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-PhD-in-Adaptive-AI-Defense-Reinforcement-Learning-for-Cybersecurity/818657402/

@dennissoemers.bsky.social @maastrichtu.bsky.social @ecpcmaastricht.bsky.social

We have a new open position for a PhD student to work on Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Security!

Check out vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... for details, and feel free to contact me for any info as well.

Application deadline: May 11

Reposts much appreciated.

Eerlijkere loonverdeling in het hoger onderwijs Zeker nu minister Bruins van OCW de grootste bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs in decennia heeft aangekondigd is het essentieel dat de sector zich niet tegen elkaar uit laat spelen en solidair met ...

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/ee...

WANTED: System Network Engineer at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS), Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) at Maastricht University
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-System-Network-Engineer/816337202/

Rejoice! The UM Data Science Research Seminar Series 2025 starts next month!💃
maastrichtuniversity.nl/research/um-data-science-research-seminar-series

Save the dates, lest you forget! 📅✔️
More information (speakers & subjects) will follow soon!

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AI’s Black Box Problem: Why We Need Smarter, Transparent Explanations Now AI systems in high-stakes industries often fail to provide clear explanations for their decisions, leaving users vulnerable. Researchers from the University of Surrey propose the SAGE framework to ens...

AI’s Black Box Problem: Why We Need Smarter, Transparent Explanations Now 🤖💡⚖️ www.azoai.com/news/2025021... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Ethics #MachineLearning #ExplainableAI #Trust #Algorithm #Transparency #FraudDetection #AIRegulation

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.

Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

First EU AI Act guidelines: When is health AI prohibited? | ICT&health International The European Commission has published draft guidelines on interpreting Article 5, which describes the prohibited AI applications.

The EU Commission's draft guidelines under the AI Act ban manipulative AI, exploitation of vulnerable groups, and social scoring in healthcare. A step towards ethical AI use! #HealthAI #EULaw #AIRegulation #AI #Healthcare

Today Distinguished Professor Michel Dumontier will speak at the EGC2025 Conference in Strasbourg.
egc2025.cnrs.fr/speakers/

The lecture is entitled "Towards Biomedical Neurosymbolic AI: From Semantic Knowledge Infrastructure to Explainable Predictions".

#datascience #AI #conference #AcademicSky

Prof. Dr. Frank Thuijsman, full professor of Strategic Optimization and Data Science at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS), will speak at the UM Star Lectures on March 13th, 2025!
maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/um-star-lectures

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Barcelona 2025 - Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Healthcare and Life Sciences Date: February 24-27, 2025Location: Barcelona, Spain

We are proud to announce that the team led by Dr. Remzi Celebi, Assistant Professor at the Maastricht University Institute of Data Science, will contribute to the SWAT4HCLS2025 Conference in Barcelona, Spain from 24 to 27 February 2025.
www.swat4ls.org

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Really enjoyed hosting Maastricht’s President and Rector, Profs. Letschert and Habibović in York last week. It was great to discuss our collaboration and explore new opportunities in lots of areas – including bioeconomy, robotics, immersive tech, and others. Looking forward to seeing these develop!

The Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS) at Maastricht University leads project supporting IT education at the Université de Burundi:
maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/um-supports-university-burundi-development-bachelors-degree-programs-it

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The Faculty of Science and Engineering at Maastricht University will host the ICAB 2025 Conference (13-14 March), focusing on student engagement in STEM education.
maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/icab-2025

@maastrichtu.bsky.social @universiteitennl.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #STEM #conference #ICAB

Het is even schrikken, woensdagochtend, als medewerkers en studenten van de Universiteit Maastricht merken dat hun internetverbinding traag is of helemaal niet werkt. Is de UM net als de TU Eindhoven gehackt? Nee, zo blijkt, maar onhandig is de storing wel:

www.observantonline.nl/Home/Artikel...

They're heeere: bsky.app/profile/maas... 😁

Maastricht here: bsky.app/profile/maas...

And they did: bsky.app/profile/maas...
😍

Follow Maastricht University (UM) (the youngest and most international university in the Netherlands!) on BlueSky!
bsky.app/profile/maastrichtu.bsky.social

@maastrichtu.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #maastrichtuniversity #UM #Maastricht #Limburg #DutchUniversity #Universities #highereducation

go.bsky.app/2Mo2WBD

We're sure Maastricht University will join BlueSky soon as well ;)

Some of us are here already: Yours truly (Institute of Data Science), @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social, @umsbe.bsky.social, and @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social. We hope (and expect!) that more will follow soon!

Hopelijk komen ze in de nabije toekomst naar BlueSky: The more, the merrier!

XAI-NL Meet-up 2025 - Schedule

University of Maastricht and DACS are hosting the next Dutch research meet-up on explainable artificial intelligence. Come join us in beautiful Maastricht to discuss research ideas and projects! sites.google.com/view/xai-nl/...

Great initiative!👍

Limburgish lacks digital resources for research & AI applications like speech recognition. A new project by Andreas Simons, led by Leonie Cornips, aims to build a Limburgish Corpus: an accessible database to preserve & develop the language. A big step for its future!⭐

👉more: tinyurl.com/yc6th3v7

TAPS Responsibility matrix: a tool for responsible data science by design Data-science is an interdisciplinary research working on data from different fields. When analyzing these data, data scientists implicitly agree to follow the rules governing these fields. However,...

I am happy to share that our long-standing work on responsible data science has now been published at the Journal of Responsible Innovation. Link to the paper : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Introducing Onto-CGAN, a novel approach by Dr, Chang Sun and Distinguished Professor Michel Dumontier (Institute of Data Science, Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering at Maastricht University)

We're proud to introduce Onto-CGAN, a novel approach that combines human-curated ontology knowledge with generative models, facilitating the creation of synthetic health data for rare diseases.
nature.com/articles/s41746-024-01421-0

#datascience #GANs #syntheticdata #synthetichealthdata #healthdata

Welcome, Gudrun! #followingback 😊