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ERC Advanced Grant for Peter Grünwald for research on a revolutionary statistical theory
Peter Grünwald, senior researcher in the Machine Learning group of CWI and part-time full professor of Statistical Learning at Leiden University has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his research on …
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Stieltjes Prize 2022-2023 for Lucas Slot
Former CWI PhD student Lucas Slot has been awarded the Stieltjes Prize for the best mathematical PhD thesis in the Netherlands. Slot did his PhD research at CWI, defended his thesis ‘cum …
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Tim Baarslag joins KNAW Council for Natural Sciences and Technology
Senior researcher Tim Baarslag joined the KNAW Council for Natural Sciences and Technology (RNTW) this month. The RNTW is one of the four internal advisory councils of the KNAW.
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Stacey Jeffery appointed professor by special appointment at UvA
CWI's researcher Stacey Jeffery has been appointed professor by special appointment of Quantum Information at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Jeffery also stays affiliated with CWI as …
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NWO Gravitation: 21.5 million euros for 'Challenges in Cyber Security'
'Challenges in Cyber Security' is one of seven research projects that received an NWO Gravitation grant this year. The project has the impressive sum of 21.5 million euros attached. Among the scientists …
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NGF AiNed Fellowship for democratizing insights from structured data
Institutions lacking resources are struggling to make use of huge amounts of structured data, creating a data literacy gap and making them fall behind large corporations. Madelon Hulsebos, an incoming tenure-track researcher, …
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PhD student Tamara Florijn is one of the Faces of Science
What is life like for a young scientist? Tamara Florijn (CWI/Utrecht University) has been chosen as one of the Faces of Science to share her life as a PhD student through blogs …
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Less food waste through automated quality control
Agricultural products typically have more variation within the same batch of products than processed foods. The development of advanced imaging techniques makes it possible to improve the accuracy of agricultural product quality …
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