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Vanessa Evers appointed new director of CWI
The Board of NWO-I, the institute organization of NWO, appointed Prof. Vanessa Evers as Director of CWI, the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands. In mid-2025, she …
Mathematical model can reduce waiting times in healthcare
Older adults often face long waits for a place in a nursing home or remain unnecessarily in a hospital bed after an acute admission. PhD candidate Rebekka Arntzen developed mathematical models at …
Hannes Mühleisen wins the Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2025
The Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2025 has been awarded to Hannes Mühleisen, Senior Researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and Professor of Data Engineering at Radboud University …
CWI and LUMC to develop explainable AI to detect hereditary cholesterol disease
Researchers at CWI and Leiden University Medical Center set out to develop explainable artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for early detection of the cholesterol disorder FH. Also, they aim to predict which FH …
CWI's research partner Databricks raises $10 billion in landmark funding round
US-based software company and CWI research partner Databricks has raised $10 billion in one of the largest private funding rounds to date, bringing the company’s valuation to $62 billion. Databricks develops software …
Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) Group Awarded 2023 IEEE MultiMedia Best Paper
On December 13th, 2024, the paper “VR2Gather: A Collaborative, Social Virtual Reality System for Adaptive, Multiparty Real-Time Communication” has been selected, by the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board, to receive the 20203 …
Best Demo Award at MUM 2024 for CWI DIS
Research carried out by CWI researcher Abdallah El Ali, part of the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group, along with TU Delft and USI researchers, has won the Best Demo Award at …
User-Centered Adaptive Streaming of Dynamic Point Clouds for Virtual Reality Remote Communication
Thesis by PhD student Shishir Subramanyam from the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group reports on research exploring adaptive delivery optimizations for real-time point cloud user reconstructions.
