Meet our researchers
Our group contains researchers from all over the world with different and complimentary backgrounds. Below, you can meet some of our researchers and learn about our backgrounds and research interests.
Public Health Data
The trigger The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the demand for data driven decision making amongst policy makers in the public health sector. Registration data on test results and vaccination status were extensively used to create meaningful data analytics. The paradox This health crisis also revealed a remarkable paradox. Whereas governmental researchers…
Start(V)aardig
Applying data science for Health Innovation Recently, the Data Science team got involved in Pim Koolwijk’s Project ‘Start(V)aardig’. The aim of this project is to develop a toolbox for professionals supporting them to improve the motor competence of young children. The project provides a rich source of structured and repeatedly…
Diabetes diagnosis
A Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) is a serious complication of diabetes and can lead to a lower limb amputation if not treated properly and in an early stage . A DFU is often caused by poor blood circulation and neuropathy and therefore also heals poorly. For these long-term non-healing wounds,…
GPT Powered Classroom
The advent of Language Model AI, particularly the ChatGPT, has revolutionized the way we interact with technology, taking the world by storm. This cutting-edge AI model, developed by OpenAI, has demonstrated an unprecedented ability to understand and generate human-like text, making it an accessible and flexible tool for a wide…
Infant Blink Detection
Distributed machine learning is becoming a popular model-training method due to privacy, computational scalability, and bandwidth capacities. In this work, we explore scalable distributed-training versions of two algorithms commonly used in object detection. A novel distributed training algorithm using Mean Weight Matrix Aggregation (MWMA) is proposed for Linear Support Vector…
AR for deaf students
Hearing loss is a global problem that many people deal with and the percentage of people with a hearing impairment will only keep growing. It is projected that we will reach a global population of 8 billion people in 2022 . Of these 8 billion people it is estimated that…
Virtual Jelle
Project partners: Virtuele Jelle (start-up), Pieter van Foreest (PvF), Medical Delta, IMEC (Innovatrix), Innovation Quarter and THUAS. R&D by: Virtuele Jelle, Hani Al-Ers (THUAS) Challenge: to improve quality of life of people with dementia and to relieve family care givers by virtual (machine-controlled) telephone conversations with real voices of family…
Palsy diagnosis
Peripheral palsy and central palsy are two forms of facial paralysis. Both conditions have similar characteristics, but they can have very different acuteness. Bell’s Palsy is one form of peripheral nerve disease, from which patients often heal and which is not likely to be fatal . A central facial palsy,…
AI message parsing
Since the industrial revolution European nations had created or were forced to share resources and infrastructures that transcended national boundaries. This resulted in the creation of common rules for maintenance and use to counter risks and challenges . This fact also comes with international dependence and difficulties regarding infrastructures. One…
IT 4 Seniors
Digital skills are indispensable nowadays, even for seniors. Whether arranging online banking, passing on a move or refilling a prescription, the use of digital systems is indispensable in our society. During the lockdowns, online services became even more important. For senior citizens, the lack of computer skills led to problems…
Professional Practice
The collaboration between industry and education is an important part of innovation. Education needs to stay relevant to developments in the industry, while the industry needs the knowledge and insight from the education sector to overcome real-world obstacles and prevent future difficulties (Ankrah and AL-Tabbaa, 2015; Rynes et al., 2001).…
Smart Teddy
The Smart Teddy is a therapeutic companion with a very basic functionality. It can bark and move its tail if someone interacts with it. It is soft and cuddly to invite people to grab and hug it. Seniors can keep the Smart Teddy as a long term companion. Like a…
City Scrapper
The project aims to use widely available user satisfaction data to construct a decision making tool for municipalities. Managing cities is a complex task for municipalities. Both creating policies and evaluating them requires careful planning and significant resources. However, citizen already provide publicly that information on a variety of user…
Firefighter forecasting
Recent increase in wild fires in France, and around the world, are an unfortunate example of the current challenges firefighters face nowadays. Data science can provide a solution for such challenges. Through various visualizations, we can empower our public services to react faster and more efficiently to extreme situations. The…
Airport load modelling
Passenger load factor is a measure of efficiency, and it is used to describe how well an airline performs . A high load factor indicates that an airline has sold most of its seats, while a low load factor can cause concern for many airlines. Airlines provide the passenger load…
Risk signaling
The aim of this research program is to contribute to prevention by better identifying suspicious abnormalities by paramedics. Subsequently, upon identification, to advise more effectively to ask for medical care. Embedding enhanced risk signaling and secondary prevention in skin therapeutic care Cancer is one of the diseases that cause…
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