26 March 2024

Five new awards AiNed Fellowship grants to retain AI talent for the Netherlands

Leveraging exceptional AI talent is important to strengthen the national knowledge and training base in AI. We are therefore pleased to announce five new awards from the AiNed Fellowship grants Programme . The AiNed Board warmly congratulates all awardees on these awards and looks forward with interest to their contribution to the AiNed Programme and AI research in the Netherlands.

Retaining AI talent for the Netherlands

The AiNed Fellowship grants help Dutch academic knowledge institutes attract AI talents who can generally choose from a variety of competitive offers.... This Programme is aimed at exceptional AI talents working in AI fields ranging from technology to the social sciences and humanities. The Programme enables research institutions to offer AI talents an attractive basic package.

We are happy to provide some more information about the five new research projects:

- Dr. Rianne Fijten, Maastricht University
Navigating the Impact of AI in Healthcare: An Exploration of Treatment Decision Making
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare is promising, but challenges hinder integration. This is explored by examining trust, communication, organizational challenges, and developing and evaluating AI for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. The goal is responsible integration of AI, with attention to precision, ethics, and practicality.

- Dr. Madelon Hulsebos, Center for Mathematics & Computer Science
DataLibra: Democratizing Insight Retrieval from (Semi-)Structured Data
By 2023, approximately 120 zettabytes of data will have been collected worldwide, while less than 1% will actually be used. The ambitious goal of the DataLibra project is to make key insights from structured data accessible to all through Table Representation Learning. The research is focused on the entire data analytics infrastructure.

- Dr. Filip Ilievski, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Human-Centric AI Agents with Common Sense.
This project will increase the understanding of how human-centric AI with common sense can be developed. It will transform the development of mental modeling, solution verification, identification of speech characters, explanation of behavior through cultural values and coherent visual reasoning. In doing so, success will be demonstrated in controlled laboratory experiments and
human studies.

- Dr. Konrad Kollnig, Maastricht University
RegTech4AI: Pioneering Regulatory Technologies for AI and Making AI Regulation Work in Practice.
RegTech4AI aims to bridge the gap between AI regulation and its practical implementation. With expertise in law and computer science, the project will develop technologies to support enforcement agencies and companies in implementing laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation and the upcoming AI regulation.

- Dr. Aaqib Saeed, Eindhoven University of Technology
Private Ears, Shared Insights: Scaling Clinical Audio Understanding with Federated Learning
Everyday sounds such as speech, breathing and heartbeat contain valuable clues about our health. This project develops collaborative and privacy-protecting AI to monitor well-being by securely analyzing audio from globally distributed consumer products such as phones and smart speakers. This allows devices to detect health problems while ensuring privacy, honesty and safety.

Purpose and duration of call

The AiNed Fellowship grants are a program component of the National Growth Fund Programme AiNed. The purpose of the AiNed Fellowship grants Programme is to attract AI talent to Dutch academic research institutions in view of international competition for AI talent. From its inception in 2022 until the closing date of December 15, 2023, a total of 14 fellowships have been awarded.

About the AiNed Fellowship grants.

This Programme targets Dutch academic knowledge institutes that, following their strategy, want to invest in attracting AI talent for the position of (tenure track) associate professor, associate professor or full professor. The AI talent is selected by the research organization. The AiNed Fellowship grants increase the number of PhD and postdoctoral researchers at Dutch academic knowledge institutes that focus on the challenges that are part of the AI Research Agenda for the Netherlands (AIREA-NL).

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