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Jan Hemelrijk Award for CWI's Rosanne Turner
The Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVSOR) awarded the Jan Hemelrijk Award to PhD student Machine Learning Rosanne Turner.
Millions for AI knowledge and investment consortium
CWI will be part of a knowledge and investment consortium made up of a large group of Dutch universities and a venture capitalist. The consortium has been awarded an €8 million grant …
Evolutionary Algorithms for high-quality solutions
It is not uncommon that the solution obtained by an algorithm is not as desired. To overcome this, Stef Maree's PhD research focuses on optimization algorithms for finding not just one solution, …
Transportation Research Board Showcase Paper for Stochastics Researchers
Their article "Long-Term Forecasting of Off-Street Parking Occupancy for Smart Cities was" selected by the Transportation Demand Committee from more than 100 papers submitted in 2020.
Researchers find substantial uncertainties in Covid-19 pandemic simulations
Computer modelling to forecast Covid-19 mortality contains significant uncertainty in its predictions, according to an international study led by researchers at UCL and CWI. Their article was published in Nature Computational Science …
UvA, HvA and CWI launch AI Media & Democracy Lab
How will AI and digital technologies transform democracy and the media? researchers from UvA, AUAS and CWI will collaborate with media partners, societal partners and the municipality of Amsterdam in the new …
First prize for logistic innovation COVID-19 vaccination strategy
The jury was impressed by the submission titled ‘A fast and responsive supply chain’ by CWI (Rob van der Mei) and HvA (Dennis Moeke).
Guido Schäfer named professor by special appointment at UvA
Guido Schäfer has been named professor by special appointment of Algorithms, Optimization and Game Theory at the University of Amsterdam.
