News
CWI publishes news item about its research, education and the social impact of this research on a regular basis. In addition to news items, we also publish more extensive stories about high-profile research or about CWI contributing to tackling social issues.
Peter Grünwald named IMS Fellow for foundational contributions to statistics
Senior researcher Peter Grünwald of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has been elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), a prestigious honour awarded to researchers who have made outstanding contributions …
Hershkowitz Early Career Award for Jannis Teunissen
For his pioneering work in simulating electric discharges, Jannis Teunissen (CWI) has been named the 2024 winner of the Noah Hershkowitz Early Career Award and Review by the PSST journal.
Combining physics and AI to unravel turbulence: CWI receives NWO grant
Turbulence is everywhere, from the swirl of smoke in air to the turbulent flows of gas in galaxies. Yet despite its ubiquity, it remains one of the most difficult phenomena to simulate. …
DIS AT CHI 2025
Research carried out by the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has resulted in contributions to this year's ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing …
DIS organizes 3rd Edition of Spring School on Social XR
The Distributed and Interactive Systems group (DIS) organized the third edition of the Spring School on Social XR. The event took place from 7 to 10 April 2025 and attracted 30 students …
New IPN Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction
The ICT Research Platform Nederland (IPN), has recently approved a new Special Interest Group (SIG) on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This group will be led by Alessandro Bozzon (TU Delft), Pablo Cesar (CWI …
Mastering Vision – How Inductive Biases Shape Mammalian Learning Efficiency
CWI project awarded in NWO Open Competition.
Barry Koren receives royal decoration
After his farewell speech at Eindhoven University of Technology on 3 April, TU/e professor and CWI advisor Barry Koren received a royal decoration: he was named Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau. …
