Research

These are projects I am / have been involved in.

Current projects / grants

Past projects / grants

  • SEQUOIA: Smart Maintenance Optimization (NWO Toegepaste en Technische Wetenschappen 15474) (April 2017 – April 2022)
  • Twitter DataGrant: How Twitter awareness campaigning affects cancer prevention and early detection behaviour (Twitter, Tech4people) (May 2014 – May 2019) [project page]
  • CTIT Computing Lab: Hadoop cluster and more (CTIT; January 2015 – January 2020) [wiki]
  • Infiniti: Information Retrieval for Information Services (COMMIT; December 2011 – December 2016)
  • FACT: Folktales As Classifiable Texts (NWO Catch, 640.005.002) (January 2012 – October 2016)
  • AXES: Access to Audiovisual Archives (European Integrated Project; January 2011 – January 2015)
  • Q-Able: Natural Access to Web Databases (STW Valorisation Grant, Phase 1, Project number 13214) (September 2013 – January 2014)
  • NWO-Vidi: Distributed Information Retrieval by means of Keyword Auctions; Funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO 639.022.809); October 2008 – October 2013
  • Puppy-IR: An Open Source Environment to construct Information Services for Children (European STREP No. 231507) [wiki] (April 2009 – April 2012)
  • RDoS: Radical Decentralization of Search; Funded by the Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program, October 2008 – October 2010 [final report]
  • EfFoRT: Effective Focused Retrieval Techniques; funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO 612.066.513); January 15, 2007 – January 15, 2011 [wiki]
  • SRO-NICE: Strategic Research Orientation – Natural Interaction in Computer-mediated Environments; funded by the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology; July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2010
  • MultimediaN: Semantic Multimedia Access; funded by the Dutch government BSIK programme (”Besluit subsidies investeringen kennisinfrastructuur”); April 1, 2004 – November 31, 2009 [wiki]
  • CIRQUID: Complex Information Retrieval Queries in a DBMS; funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO 612.061.210); November 1, 2002 –  December 31, 2006
    [wiki]
  • CLEF: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum; funded by
    the European Commission 5th Framework Programme (IST-2000-31002); January 1, 2001 – December 31, 2003 (mirror)
  • DELOS:
    Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries; funded by
    the European Commission 5th Framework Programme (IST-1999-12262); January 1, 2000 – December 31, 2002
  • DRUID: Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval on the basis of Image Processing and Language and Speech Technology; funded by the Telematica Instituut; May 1,1998 – December 31, 2001
  • OLIVE: A multilingual indexing tool for broadcast material based on speech recognition; funded by the European Commission, DG XIII, Telematics Applications Programme, Sector Language Engineering (LE4-8364); 1998 – 2000
  • POP-EYE: Video retrieval project funded by the European Commission, DG XIII, Telematics Applications Programme, Sector Language Engineering (LE1-4234); 1997 – 1998
  • TWENTY-ONE: Development of a multimedia and multilingual information transaction and dissemination tool, funded by
    the European Commission, DG XIII, Telematics Applications Programme, Sector Information Engineering (IE-2108); 1996 – 1999

Activities

Past Activities

  • Member of KEYSTONE: semantic KEYword-based Search on sTructured data sOurcEs (EU COST Action IC1302, More info, 2014-2018)
  • Scientific leader of the NIRICT Research theme Data Science.(2017-2019)
  • Board of SIKS: the Dutch Research School on Information and Knowledge Systems. (2009-2019)
  • Founding member of the Data Science Platform Nederland DSPN. (2016)
  • Member of JA@UT: the “Jonge Akademie” of the University of Twente. (Board member: 2012-2014)
  • Member of the University Curriculum Committee IT. (2008-2016 More info)
  • Information Director of ACM SIGIR (2007 – 2013)
  • Study advisor for the Computer Science master track Information
    Systems Engineering (2002 – 2007)
  • Co-organiser of the ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2007.
  • Co-organiser of the SIKS/Yahoo Seminar on Searching and Ranking, SSR 2008.
  • Co-organiser of the Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshops, DIR 2009, DIR 2005, DIR 2001.
  • Co-organiser of the Twente Data Management Workshop,
    TDM 2004.
  • Co-organiser of the Twente Workshop on Language Technology,
    TWLT-14.
  • Programme committee member of NWO Computer Science
    (BeoordelingsCommissie Informatica, BCI) 2004-2007
  • Programme committee member of NWO STARE (Star E-Science: multidisciplinary research in computer science and astronomy) 2006
  • Editorial Board of the Journal of Information Retrieval, Springer (2009-2014)
  • Programme committee member of the European Conference on
    Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL (2006-2008)
  • Programme committee member of the ACM Conference on
    Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR (2001 – senior member/area coordinator since 2008)
  • Programme committee member of the European Conference on
    Information Retrieval, ECIR (2003 – )
  • Programme committee member of the Conference on Information
    and Knowledge Management, CIKM (2005 – )
  • Programme committee member of the International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, INFOSCALE 2006, 2008
  • Programme committee member of the International World Wide Web Conference, WWW, 2009 (track XML and Web Data)
  • Programme committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, ICME 2005
  • Peer reviewing for ACM TOIS (Transactions on Information Systems), ACM TALIP (Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing), AIJ (Artificial Intelligence Journal), DKE (Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal), IP&M (Information Processing & Management), IRJ (Information Retrieval Journal),
    JSS (Journal of Systems and Software), and more…