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Marcos and Charlotte joined the Impact Coalition Secure Societies (VU-UT)
Charlotte Gerritsen (coalition leader) and Marcos Oliveira (coalition coordinator) joined the VU-UT Alliance to lead the Impact Coalition Secure Societies. The Secure Societies impact coalition brings together science, practice, and policy to strengthen societal security. Researchers focus on pressing challenges such as polarisation, crisis management and digital crime, developing innovative strategies and technological solutions. By working closely…
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Alexia presented Generative AI architectures and mechanisms at the GenAI winter school
This month, the VU organised a two-week winter school centred on the responsible use of Generative AI in academia. Researchers from various countries and disciplines gathered to learn about the ways in which they can integrate GenAI to their research, while retaining ownership and responsibility of their work and its impact. Alexia contributed to this…
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Vacancy for two research assistants
We have a vacancy for two research assistants (2 days a week), for a project on generating layman summaries for open access scientific literature. See this page for more information. Apply before October 17, 2025.
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SIKS course ‘AI & Human Behaviour’
In this two-day course, we will investigate key components of AI-based behaviour support systems. Key to such technologies is understanding why people do what they do (by learning about their motivations, habits, capabilities and needs), so that the offered support is timely and targeted at a pivotal mechanism. AI-related technologies can contribute to deepening this…
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PhD defense of Erik van Haeringen
On June 19, our colleague, Erik van Haeringen, will defend his PhD thesis “Mixed feelings: Simulating Emotion Contagion in Groups”. VU Auditorium 13:45
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Paper Chaohui and Michel accepted and presented @HHAI2025
Towards Chatbots That Know Their Users: A Comparative Study of Memory Systems and Benchmark Dataset Chatbot applications based on large language models (LLMs) are increasingly popular. However, to develop conversational AI applications that collaboratively work alongside humans according to the Hybrid Intelligence paradigm, we need chatbots that remember earlier interactions and take the insights from…
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