People
Group members
| Suzan Verberne Full Professor Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval | ![]() |
| Zhaochun Ren Associate Professor Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems | ![]() |
| Tessa Verhoef Assistant Professor Emergent Communication | ![]() |
| Gijs Wijnholds Assistant Professor Computational Linguistics | ![]() |
| Flor Plaza Assistant Professor Socially aware Natural Language Processing | |
| Lifeng Han Postdoc and lecturer The 4D PICTURE Project: Design-based Data-Driven Decision-support Tools (WP3: Text Mining) | ![]() |
| Michiel van der Meer Postdoc Hybrid Intelligence | ![]() |
| Andreas Paraskeva PhD student Parsimonious architectures for Large Language Models | ![]() |
| Elena Stringli PhD student Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing | ![]() |
| Farrukh Baratov PhD student and ICAI lab AI4Oversight. XCOM: XAI-driven Compliance Detection in Dutch Regulatory Contexts (co-supervised by Niki van Stein) | ![]() |
| I-Fan Lin PhD student Domain adaptation for conversational agents | ![]() |
| Jiawen Qi PhD student (co-supervised by Qinyu Chen) | ![]() |
| Jujia Zhao PhD student Integrating search and recommendation with generative models | ![]() |
| Mert Yazan PhD student Domain adaptation for conversational agents | ![]() |
| David Lindevelt PhD student Affective text to speech generation (co-supervised by Joost Broekens) | ![]() |
| Mingweg Zhang PhD student Agentic Search and AI4Science | ![]() |
| Sabijn Perdijk PhD student StorytimeLM - Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Language Models (LMs) with Narrative Data (co-supervised by Max van Duijn) | ![]() |
| Yee Man Ng PhD student (supervised by Marco Spruit) | ![]() |
| Yumeng Wang PhD student Transparency and explainability of conversational agents | ![]() |
PhD graduates from the group
| Alex Brandsen Digging in Documents: using text mining to access the hidden knowledge in Dutch archaeological excavation reports | ![]() |
| Amin Abolghasemi Improving neural retrieval models in domain-specific contexts | ![]() |
| Anne Dirkson Knowledge discovery from patient forums: Gaining novel medical insights from patient experiences | ![]() |
| Juan Bascur Cifuentes Interactive visual browsing and retrieval of scientific literature | ![]() |
| Myrthe Reuver (VU Amsterdam) A Puzzle of Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Language Technology for Responsible News Recommendation | ![]() |
| Gineke Wiggers The Relevance of Impact: bibliometric-enhanced legal information retrieval | ![]() |
| Qianru Meng, PhD student Software repository mining | ![]() |
| Xue Wang, (joint PhD with Xi'an Jiaotong University) Multi modal representation learning and cross-modal semantic matching | ![]() |
External PhD students and guests
- Ali Satvaty, PhD student at the University of Groningen (Privacy and Safety in Language Models and Conversational Agents, LESSEN project)
- Jia-Huei (Dylan) Ju, PhD student at UvA (Hybrid Intelligence)
- Shray Juneja, EndD candidate at TU Eindhoven

























