Professor & Scientific Director
Department of Computer Science (LIACS)
Leiden University, Snellius 167
Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands
Research Interests
I am professor and scientific director of the department of computer science (LIACS). I work in machine learning; combinatorial search and games are my main fields.
Bio
I studied artificial intelligence under the guidance of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta, Edmonton and Arie de Bruin at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam where I obtained my PhD in 1996. I worked with Charles Leiserson at the MIT Lab for Computer Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the Cilk parallel computing system. Later I worked with Henri Bal at VU Amsterdam on scalable algorithms. In 2014 I joined Leiden University; in 2016 I was appointed scientific director of LIACS.
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Office
Snellius 167
Appointments
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