Two Faculity Members from ELLIS Amsterdam Elected as Fellows of the ELLIS Society

Two distinguished ELLIS unit Amsterdam faculties, Raquel Fernandez and Marcel Worring have recently been elected as Fellows of the ELLIS Society network. As the ELLIS Society Fellows, they act as ambassadors of ELLIS in advancing science. They provide strategic advice and leadership not only scientifically, but also pertaining to the advancement of ELLIS.

 

 

Raquel Fernandez’s research concerns natural language processing, with a focus on linguistically and cognitively inspired approaches to conversational AI. In a nutshell, my group investigates how dialogue interaction shapes learning — about the world and about language itself. Our interests include language generation, vision and language modelling, uncertainty in NLP, and computational pragmatics.

 

 

Marcel Worring is leading the MultiX group. In the MultiX group we research multimedia analytics by developing techniques for getting the richest information possible from the data (image/video/text/hyper-graphs) based on adaptations and finetuning of multimodal foundation models, interactions that learn from the user action to support hybrid intelligence, and user interfaces to bring AI techniques and the user together for applications in health, forensics and law enforcement, cultural heritage, urban livability, and social media analysis. We perform research in three ICAI labs: the National Police Lab AI, the AIMlab with the Inception Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the AI4Forensics lab with the Netherlands Forensics Institute.”