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Jakob Schoeffer in Ukrant
UE M20 grant
Comenius fellow for BI
RUG Professor of Robotics, Raffaella Carloni, has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize 2025. She is competing with her research, developing a bionic leg that moves just like a natural leg. Klokhuis is a TV program aimed at children aged 7 to 12.
Six European researchers will start at the Faculty of Science and Engineering (UG) with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship. One of these is Serte Donderwinkel, supervised by Tobias Müller.
Prof. Paris Avgeriou(Bernoulli Institute) has acquired a EUR 4.5 million grant within the ITEA program, entitled Managing Sustainability Tradeoffs (MAST).
NWO ENW-XL million grants for RUG research projects
Master student Andra Minculescu wins the ‘FSE Impact Award’
Prof. dr. Jorge Pérez wins NWO-XL grant for research project
Machine learning with limited data.
A human should decide when it comes to matters of life or death
Unlocking the Dead Sea scrolls
Error-free computer
ERC grants for Bart Besselink
CogniGron
Postdoc Prize 2024
Two FSE researchers awarded IAS Von Neuman Fellowship
Horizon Europe grant for Davide Grossi
Robots, bionic parts and it is not science fiction!
George Azzopardi from Information Systems won the ENLIGHT Impact Award with the project Enhancing National and Cross-Border Security: Automatic detection of Face Morphing Attacks.
Tudor quadruped robot
Raffaella Carloni from Human-Centered Robotics won the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2024 with the research "MyLeg" on the development of lower-limb protheses.
EITM-funded project DS
We initiated something new on the Bernoulli webpage: In the Spotlight!
Raffaella Carloni from Human-Centered Robotics has been nominated for the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2024 with the research "MyLeg" on the development of lower-limb protheses.
On Tuesday, 21 May 2024, the annual Ben Feringa Impact Award will be presented. With this award, the RUG gives an impulse to the recognition and appreciation of impact-driven research.
The project Horizon Europe D N EDUCADO aims to foster extensive collaboration between the fields of astronomy and computer science. This collaboration will leverage the expertise of specialists from both sectors to detect previously unseen numbers of faint observable galaxies, analyse the frequency, types and characteristics of dwarf galaxies, and compare them to the Milky Way.
Johann Bernoulli lezing 33 on The unseen structures of lightning.
Paris Avgeriou (Software Engineering and Architecture) recently has been interviewed by the Leeuwarder Courant about the brand new Engineering Doctorate program on Autonomous Systems.
George Azzopardi, associate professor of Pattern Recognition at the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, balances his time equally between fundamental and applied research. As theme coordinator of ‘Applied AI’ at the Jantina Tammes School, he is dedicated to bridging the gap between science and practical societal applications.
smart travel information market
Raffaella received the Award in the category researchers and obtained a cash prize of 1,500 euros for impact activities. It has been awarded to her for her work on bionic knees. Her research project is about a methodology and technology to mimic the functionality of a healthy human knee in lower-limb prosthetics. The award was presented by Managing Director Esther Marije Klop.
Raffaella Carloni , Associate Professor of Robotics at the University of Groningen ( Bernoulli Institute ), has received a Take-off grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
Almost halfway the NWO Gravitation programme Hybrid Intelligence
grant voor DS group
podcast series
The remarkable progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is transcending boundaries and finding invaluable applications across diverse academic disciplines. Recognizing the transformative potential of AI, we are proud to introduce the new theme, 'Applied AI,' at the Jantina Tammes School.
Sound and Vision, the Geheugen van Nederland, Beeldbank Groningen: these days, all sorts of heritage collections are available online. They are crucial sources of information for a wide range of stories. But just imagine being able to browse all these collections to find the context you need for a good story simply by entering a single search term. This is what the HAICu research project hopes to achieve with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
Dr. Francisco José Castillo Hernández from the Center for Learning and Teaching ( CLT ) and Dr. Andreea Sburlea from the Bernoulli Institute are collaborating as partners in a project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme for Education & Training.
A collection of lecture notes from Michael Biehl (Intelligent Systems) have been published by University of Groningen Press in a book called "The Shallow and the Deep - A biased introduction to neural networks and old school machine learning".
Bart Besselink finalist for the FSE Supervisor of the Year Award
published book Fred Wubs
Professor Lambert Schomaker has been awarded a grant of €103 million.
Vidi awarded to dr. Nikolay Martynchuk
Julian Koellermeier, BI researcher, is selected to the Young Academy Groningen
Google research award Hamidreza Kasaei
Ben Feringa Impact Award 2023 awarded to George Azzopardi and Guru Swaroop Bennabhaktula
Intelligent tools help with child abuse forensics: nominee to Ben Feringa Impact Award
Tamas Gorbe (Math) among the winners of the of the Best Practice in Teaching & Learning Award 2023
UG Best Practice in Teaching & Learning Award
Milestones in the collaboration with UMCG
Bernoulli represented in collaboration between 4TU.Centres and UG on research and teaching
Health Technology Research and Innovation Cluster supports BI research for unpuzzling cardiac damage by exercise imaging and biomechanical modelling
Revealing portrait Arjan van der Schaft
George Azzopardi nominated for the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2023
Prof. Alexander Lazovik gave an interview in the latest I/O Magazine. You can read the article here.
KWG Wintersymposium: talk by Prof. dr. Bart Verheij
FSE research grants for four BI researchers
Hamidreza Kasaei newsarticle on working on robots that act humanly
BI researchers in granted NWO XL project "Rational points: new dimensions"
Toekenning M20 Promotieprogramma voor project Jantina Tammes School.
The Take-off financing instrument is aimed at stimulating and supporting scientific activity and entrepreneurship.
Hamidreza Kasaei receives Gratama Science Award 2022
Prof. Dr. Davide Grossi from Multi-agent systems has been awarded a fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
Prof. Dr. Davide Grossi from Multi-agent systems won a best paper award at the AAMAS (International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems).
Fundamental computing in ICT Research Platform magazine
steve abreu newsarticle
Successful NWA ORC proposal Fatih Turkmen
Instagram teaches AI to recognize rooms
Two NWO Open competition ENW-M-grants for Bernoulli Institute
Young talent award for a Bernoulli MSc student
NWO grant for project of Dr. Viktoriya Degeler (Distributed Systems)
Completion of the EU-4NSEEK project
Workshop and Valedictory speech Prof.dr. J.B.T.M. Roerdink
Call for projects on Visualization, Geo and Data Science 2021
A lot of people tend to think algorithms are scary. But three experts say they represent a great opportunity to solve societal issues. ‘It’s not an algorithm’s fault if things go wrong. It’s always human error.’
Congratulations to Professor Rineke Verbrugge (Multi-Agent Systems) for becoming a member of De Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).
Cracking the code of the dead sea scrolls
Tenure track posistions with an edeucation profile within the Bernoulli Institute
MSCA Individual Fellowship for Tropical Methods in Mathematics and Computer Science
Godliver Owomugisha receives Best Thesis Award
Prof. Cecilia Salgado, Dr. Oliver Lorscheid and Prof. Juan Peypouquet join the Bernoulli Institute
IEEE Paper award
Bernoulli Best PhD Thesis Awards 2020
Adrenal tumours are present in around five percent of the population and are often found incidentally when an abdominal scan is made for an unrelated reason. It is difficult to determine from the scan whether such a tumour is benign or malignant. A new method uses an algorithm that differentiates between the two tumour types based on the pattern of steroid metabolites in the patient’s urine. The method, which was published this summer, is just one of the many uses for the algorithm, says Michael Biehl, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Groningen.
In april 2021 worden twee haalbaarheidsstudies uitgekozen op basis waarvan het prototype gebouwd gaat worden.
Marieke van Vugt once dreamed of becoming a professional ballerina. Now she is a cognitive scientist at the University of Groningen. But as she endeavours to understand the workings of the human mind, she still cannot live without ballet. Or Buddhism.
Kerstin Bunte NWO VIDI
Data Science Africa Research Award
Two projects involving BI researchers Prof. Karastoyanova & Dr. Van Vugt received Erasmus+ grants.
ISSAC-20 Award for Paul Noordman (Algebra)
Machine learning algorithm helps in clinical practice.
Daniel Boutros received GUG-100 prize.
SMART-Agents proposal awarded with a NWO grant.
G. Azzopardi received a Gratama Foundation grant.
The POST-DIGITAL consortium joins 17 academic research groups, SMEs as well as IBM and Thales. This 'Initial Training Network' is coordinated from Aston University, UK. The grant has been awarded in January 2020 and the ITN started its operations on April 1, 2020. Altogether the project gives funding for 15 PhD positions, two of which will be located at the UG.
'Reading thoughts’ – this is what keeps Jelmer Borst busy. Not in an esoteric way but with high-tech neuro-imaging techniques. In this way, he gains insight into what happens in our brains if, for example, we multitask, solve problems or allow our thoughts to drift.
Multiple PhD scholarship positions involving Bernoulli supervisors
Simulations by scientists from the University of Groningen and Utrecht University showed that it is unlikely that the North Atlantic Current , which is responsible for the mild climate in northwestern Europe, will come to a complete stop. However, there is a 15 percent likelihood that there will be a temporary change in the current in the next 100 years.
Simulations by scientists from the University of Groningen and Utrecht University showed that it is unlikely that the North Atlantic Current , which is responsible for the mild climate in northwestern Europe, will come to a complete stop. However, there is a 15 percent likelihood that there will be a temporary change in the current in the next 100 years.
The EU Marie Curie Actions has awarded about EUR 4 million to MANIC (Materials for Neuromorphic Circuits), an Innovative Training Network, to be coordinated by Prof. Beatriz Noheda of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials (ZIAM) and co-coordinated by Dr. Jean Fompeyrine (IBM Research-Zurich). Prof. Jos Roerdink and Prof. Lambert Schomaker (Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence) also participate in this European multidisciplinary consortium.
For his thesis “Efficient Binocular Stereo Correspondence Matching with 1-D Max-Trees”
Valedictory Lecture of Gerard Renardel de Lavalette on 10 January 2020
Dr. Cristóbal Bertoglio has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for hi-fi cardiovascular modeling from super-fast MRI.
Gravitation Grant for designing Hybrid Intelligence.
The 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law took place in Montreal on the topics of social, responsible and explainable artificial intelligence. Prof. Bart Verheij, who gave the traditional presidential address, lectured about the safeguards needed for AI to be trustworthy, social, responsible, humane, ethical.
Pieter Barendrecht, Malcolm Sabin and Jiri Kosinka were the winners of the GMP 2019Best Paper Award sponsored by Adobe! with their paper the A bivariate C¹ subdivision scheme based on cubic half-box splines. Congratulations!
Research published in the Journal of Animal Science has shown analysis method can accurately use phenotype and gene data to predict the age at which pigs will be ready for slaughter. A recent study by Ahmad Alsahaf, George Azzopardi, Bart Ducro, Egiel Hanenberg, Roel F Veerkamp and Nicolai Petkov examining the accuracy of phenotypic and genetic data in predicting slaughter age was prompted by the fact that correctly forecasting the growth of pigs can help determine things like feed costs and pen space requirements. Growth-rate predictions could also be used in other ways – for example, to identify which growth-rate factors might be more important than others.
More information is available here
Bernoulli news: UK: In a living laboratory, neuroscience meets art | Marieke van Vugt.
We are happy to announce that Dr. Steffen Muller (Algebra) received a prestigious NWO VIDI grant of 800,000 euro for his project "Global points via locally analytic functions." Dr. Muller is one of the 4 VIDI laureates at the University of Groningen this year, for a highly competitive grant with a success rate of 19%. Congratulations to Dr. Muller!
The UMCG and the RUG are teaming up this year to present the Young Talent Grants Week, a 2019 special event exclusively aimed at young researchers in their senior PhD and early postdoc years. The Young Talent Grants Week will focus on providing you all possible information for the prestigious Rubicon, VENI and Marie Curie individual grants as well as field specific information sessions organized by faculty funding experts and more! Registration is required and spaces for workshops are limited!
Niels Taatgen (AI) speaks about Brain Inspired Computing (in Dutch)
Research Minute Young Academy Groningen - Marieke van Vugt (AI)
A computer that doesn’t use bits or bytes would be extremely fast and save energy. The same applies to your brain. Many consider this the future of computing and Cognigron, the new RUG research centre, are trying to make this a reality.
Brain Beats Computer - Learning from our thought process
By Christine Dirkse / Translation by Sarah van Steenderen / Photo by Reyer Boxem
Dr. Elvira-Maria Arvanitou from the Software Engineering group has received the Second PhD award of VERSEN (Dutch National Association for Software Engineering).
Dr. Jorge Perez selected to the Young Academy Groningen
The KNAW Symposium RHYTHMS AND A-RHYTHMS IN THE SKY (16 April, 19.00-21.15) will feature two talks by Prof. dr. Henk Broer and Prof. dr. Gert Vegter of the Dynamical Systems, Geometry and Mathematical Physics group at the Bernoulli Institute. This KNAW symposium focuses on Io, Europa, Ganymedes and Callisto, moons dancing around Jupiter. The shape of our universe and the stability of our solar system are also discussed during this evening. The language of the talks is English.
The Bernoulli Institute is involved in the organization of a new Lorentz workshop. Prof. Dr. Holger Waalkens (Dynamical Systems, Geometry and Mathematical Physics) together with Prof. Dr. Urs Frauenfelder (Augsburg University) and Dr. Lei Zhao (Augsburg University) organize a Lorentz Center workshop on Symplectic Dynamics .
Dr. Fatih Turkmen joins the group Information Systems
Professor Lambert Schomaker partner in 4 million euro ITN project PerICo
Prof. Lambert Schomaker · partner in 4 million euro ITN project PerICo
Prof. Paris Avgeriou (Software Engineering): top 5 author in Software Architecture according to IEEE Software
The festive opening of the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (UG) will be held on 1 November, with a Symposium that will combine pitches of interdisciplinary research at the Bernoulli, poster sessions and Best Poster Award, and talks from prestigious external speakers.
News item Bernoulli Institute: 8 positions in Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence open at the University of Groningen
NWO has awarded an EUR 800,000 Vidi grant each to 86 experienced researchers. A respectable nine of these conduct their research at four different faculties at the University of Groningen (UG). The grant will enable the four female and five male researchers to set up their own novel research lines and even a research group.
At the University of Groningen, a new all round research institute has been established in mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence: the Bernoulli Institute. It combines and expands the unique expertises the University already has in these disciplines. The Bernoulli Institute kicks off on June 1st, 2018.
Zeven onderzoeksinstituten hebben een grote Europese subsidie ontvangen om een nieuw type beenprothese te gaan maken. Robot-ingenieur Rafaella Carloni van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen leidt het project van 4,5 miljoen euro. De officiële start vindt dan ook plaats in Groningen, op 16 en 17 april.
ALICE news: Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Seminar on April 5, 2018.
ALICE news: European grant for Raffaella Carloni (ALICE)
As well as being Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Jean-Paul van Oosten is also a PhD student. His work revolves around highly diverse ‘mountains of data’, in which smart systems recognize patterns and make connections. He does this using Machine Learning (ML). ML is the term used for the self-learning capacity of intelligent computers, which allows data to be enriched. One of the applications discovered by Van Oosten and his colleagues is a method for selecting the best candidates for a job from hundreds of curricula vitae and letters of application.
PhD ceremony: B. (Burcu) Arslan: A computational cognitive modeling approach to the development of second-order theory of mind
ALICE
Artificial Intelligence awarded as 'Top Rated Programme' according to the latest edition of the Higher Education Guide for Master's degree programmes
Niels Taatgen, TEDx, cognitive modeling
PhD ceremony Bea Valkenier: Vowel processing in cluttered auditory scenes
PhD ceremony: M.F. (Faik) Karaaba: Face recognition in low-resolution images under small sample conditions with face-part detection and alignment, ALICE
Promotion Ioanna Katidioti
Faculty spotlight Dr. Bart Verheij
PhD ceremony, Menno Nijboer, ALICE
PhD ceremony: M. (Menno) Nijboer: Concurrent multitasking, from neural activity to human cognition
Niels Taatgen elected Lecturer of the Year
Niels Taatgen elected Lecturer of the Year