I have a vacancy for a fully funded PhD position in Causality for Domain Adaptation and Optimization in my group at the @uva_amsterdam. The position is part of the new Mercury Machine Learning Lab and funded by Booking.com. For more information, see vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po…

The Mercury Machine Learning Lab kicks off its brand new 'MMLL online seminar series' with a seminar on causality on March 10th, given by prof. Juan D. Correa. Sign up below! Booking.com AI Technology at the University of Amsterdam TU Delft meetup.com/nl-NL/Innovati…

Ten minutes to go until the next ICAI meetup: AI for Travel in NL. Sign up at and join at meetup.com/nl-NL/Innovati…

And we're live. With a presentation by Martin Oswald on ATLAS Lab, a collaboration between TomTom and the University of Amsterdam, on the vision and overall direction of the lab.

Next up: Kien Nguyen, on recent CVPR 2022 work entitled "BoxeR: Box-Attention for 2D and 3D Transformers"

Next up: Onno Zoeter who presents the Mercury Machine Learning lab, a collaboration between Booking.com, the University of Amsterdam, and Delft University of Technology, with a focus on learning from controlled sources.

Congratulations to Taco Cohen for winning this year’s Kees Schouhamer Immink Prijs!

PhD position alert (please RT): Conversational search and recommendation at the University Of Amsterdam The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam DM me if you want to apply, or come and chat with me at #ECIR2022. More info: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po… #SIGIR2022 #CIKM2022 #RecSys2022

Pre-announcement: 14 fully funded positions in conversational intelligence. Join us to work on algorithmic challenges in conversational intelligence, w/diverse team of supervisors around the Netherlands. Expected opening date: Q3/2022. Details at lessen-project.nl (1/17)

🥁🥁🥁 iglu-contest @ NeurIPS is about to start! The focus is on building an interactive agent that can understand the instructions in natural language to build structures in the #Minecraft environment! In case of uncertainty, ask clarifying questions! Interested? #SIGIR2022 #NAACL2022

SEA: The Music. Five speakers. October 5, 16.00 AMS time. Sign up here: meetup.com/sea-search-eng… #Meetup via Meetup

📢The September edition of SEA (Friday the 30th) is all about neural retrieval models. W/ Andrew Yates (UvA) and Freek Boutkan (Albert Heijn). Sign up at: meetup.com/sea-search-eng…

📢 This month's edition of SEA will be devoted to summarization 🗒️. W/ Maartje ter Hoeve (U. Amsterdam), Natalie Schluter (Apple MLR), and Arthur Bražinskas (Google). This is a hybrid event, open to everyone 🌎🌍, so sign up now ✅: meetup.com/sea-search-eng…

Come and join us as a PhD student! The IRLab at the University Amsterdam has two fully funded, four-year PhD positions staff.fnwi.uva.nl/m.derijke/two-… The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam UvA Amsterdam (1/4)

Position 1: Full page personalization in recommender systems; this is a position in the TAIM Lab, a collaborative research lab with RTL, Maastricht University, and the University of Amsterdam staff.fnwi.uva.nl/m.derijke/two-… The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam UvA Amsterdam (2/4)

Position 2: Truthful generative methods for news content; this is a position in the REM Lab, a collaborative research lab with DPG Media, the Jheronymus Academy of Data Science, and the University of Amsterdam staff.fnwi.uva.nl/m.derijke/two-… The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam UvA Amsterdam (3/4)

TAIM Lab and REM Lab are part of a big drive by the national Innovation Center for AI (ICAI) to create 170 new PhD student positions in AI, 85 this year, 85 in five years, see icai.ai/jobs/ Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (4/4)

📣A PhD position is open The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam UvA Amsterdam to work on conversational AI in the era of #LLMs and #ChatGPT. More info on the project: bit.ly/3LU6EVq Apply here: bit.ly/3nGdp5r 🚨 Please RT! 🚨 #SIGIR2023 #CIKM2023 #NLProc

Update on where we are, on our campaign to fill 85 fully funded, four-year PhD positions as part of ICAI's LTP ROBUST program to build trustworthy AI-based systems for sustainable growth: Filled: 27 Closed: 16 Open now: 9 Opening soon: 33 Details at: icai.ai/jobs/

Come and join the Amsterdam ecosystem in AI, Bioinformatics, and CS. We are looking for 14 new colleagues at the Assistant/Associate Professor level at the University of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 1/10