Masoud Mansoury’s paper on The Unfairness of Multifactorial Bias in Recommendation has been accepted in the ACM Transactions on Information Systems and is now available here. Congratulations, Mansoud!
Three workshop papers accepted
Adi Watzman‘s paper Toward Iterative Safe Policy Improvement (with co-authors Floris den Hengst and Thiago Dias Simão) was accepted to the UAI workshop on Safe AI.
Two UvA master students had papers accepted to the European Workshop on Reinforcement learning: Eduardo Terres Caballero the paper A Goal-Set Characterization of Task Composition in the Boolean Task Algebra and Oscar Miró López Feliu the paper Correcting Within-Group Self-Selection Bias in Prioritized Replay.
Congratulations!
Paper Matthew accepted at ICLR
Matthew’s paper Gradient-Based Program Synthesis with Neurally Interpreted Languages, with Clément Bonnet and Levi Lelis, was accepted to ICLR! Congrats, Matthew!
SIKS course on “Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Hybrid Intelligence”
I am co-organizing a two-day graduate course on “Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Hybrid Intelligence”. We will discuss RL basics and specific challenges for using RL as an assistant or collaborator. Registration and more information via the SIKS website.
Deadline extensions “AI for safety-critical infrastructure workshop”
The deadline is now extended for submissions to the AI for safety-critical infrastructure workshop at ECML PKDD.
📅 15th September 2025
📍Porto, Portugal
⏰ NEW Submission deadline: 21st June 2025
Info and submission 👉 https://lnkd.in/drjkZ5Rt
Open PhD position on interactive robot learning at VU
We are recruiting a PhD candidate within the The Hybrid Intelligence Centre on the topic of interactive robot learning with flexible human input.
The student will be based at the Vrije Universiteit with Kim Baraka as main supervisor (I will be co-supervisor).
Deadline is June 15, 2025.
More information and application through this website.
Open PhD student position at VU
Maryam Alimardani at the Vrije Universiteit and I are looking for a PhD student on improving human-robot collaboration (HRC) using brain-computer interfaces. The student will be based at the VU with Maryam as main supervisor. More information: https://workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-on-improving-human-robot-collaboration-hrc-using-brain-computer-interfaces-amsterdam-1162436.
Sebastiaan de Peuter to join our team as postdoc
Sebastiaan de Peuter will be joining the team as a postdoc. He will be working on various topics related to the interaction of learning agents and human operators within the AI4REALNET project. I’m looking forward to the collaboration!
New papers accepted at AAMAS and AAAI
David and Niklas recently had their papers accepted for presentation at AAAI and at AAMAS. Congratulations to both! Pre-prints will follow soon!