Academia and Industry Compared
In the beginning of this year I switched careers. I quit my job as assistant professor and became lead data intelligence in Obvion, a mortgage provider in the Netherlands. Just before making the switch I…
Aligning Values in AI Applications
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. When you use the internet or computers in general you interact (sometimes unknowingly) with dozens of systems that use some form of AI. Ad networks serve you personalized ads when…
Why I (think I) Didn’t Succeed in Academia
I’m not too embarrassed to admit that I just finished a 16-session therapy with a psychologist, after making the difficult decision to leave academia. For many of us 2020 was a brutal year. I personally…
Human-Centric AI Manifesto: Or How To Try and Do No Harm
Introduction Recently I’ve said farewell to my academic career and switched back to industry. While I haven’t regretted that move for one moment, I started having some concerns on if I will be able to…
Surf and the Art of Career Navigation
Disclaimer: I am as good as a surfer as I am experienced a professional. I like to think I’m intermediate at both, but realistically speaking I’m probably a novice… This post started out as some…
Research into Mobility in the Netherlands
Q-Park is probably the biggest owner of parking garages in the Netherlands. Based in Maastricht, they own dozens of parking garages throughout the Netherlands. They asked the BISS Research Insitute to show how Data Science…
Book Chapter Published: “Theory-grounded user modeling for personalized HCI”
I wrote a book chapter for “Personalized Human-Computer Interaction”, together with Bruce Ferwerda. In the chapter we present an overview of studies that rely on some form of psychological theory as the basis for user…
Big Data Weekend at Breda Photo
Saturday 15th of September was the big data weekend at the BredaPhoto Festival organized by Wave of Tomorrow. Marloeke van der Vlugt, Tim van Elferen and myself created a mix between a lecture about big data and…
Essential Tools for Young Faculty
I have been an assistant professor for about 6 weeks now, and it has been quite hectic. I have spent a lot of time meeting new people, deciding on which research lines to start, finishing…
Graduation Eelco Wiechert
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Today Eelco Wiechert presented and defended his master thesis on the occurrence of the peak-end effect in music playlist experience, supervised by Martijn Willemsen and myself. Psychological literature tells us that when evaluating an experience,…