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Visiting Professor Nava Tintarev on explainable AI, bias and building research ties
The CWI Visiting Programme is designed to give researchers things that are precious in academic life: time, space, and new scientific encounters. In May, Professor of Explainable AI Nava Tintarev came to …
Trailblazer bringing structure
Lynda Hardman, Principal Research and Strategist at CWI and Professor of Multimedia Discourse Interaction at Utrecht University, recently received the IPN Distinguished Service Award. Besides being a decades-long frontrunner in unlocking new …
Portrait of Sanne Vrijenhoek, tenure tracker in the Human-Centered Data Analytics group
Translating societal issues back into technology: that is Sanne Vrijenhoek’s core business. Her work focuses on artificial intelligence (AI). At CWI’s HCDA group, she studies systems that recommend news articles — the …
Lynda Hardman receives IPN Distinguished Service Award at ICT.OPEN
During the plenary opening of ICT.OPEN on 15 April, Lynda Hardman received the IPN Distinguished Service Award 2026 from ICT-Research Platform Netherlands. The award recognizes a person who has provided outstanding service …
Exploring hidden links in neuroscience literature with augmented reality
Before conducting a costly experiment, neuroscientists need to identify potentially useful hypotheses. In her PhD, Boyu Xu shows how augmented reality can help scan vast amounts of neuroscience literature and highlight less …
Multilingualism is a blind spot in AI systems
AI systems that function in multiple languages do not always provide the same answers. This poses a risk for organizations that rely on such systems for decision-making or customer interaction, warns CWI, …
Dashboard to expose bias in library AI systems
Researchers from the Human-Centered Data Analytics (HCDA) group are collaborating with software companies to develop a dashboard that reveals bias in library recommender systems. The project has received €123,900 in funding from …
Lynda Hardman to head scientific committee of European research collaboration body
As of May 2025, Lynda Hardman, senior researcher & strategist at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), has been elected Chair of the Scientific Committee of COST – the European Cooperation in Science …
