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25/09/2023

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23/08/2023

We are proud to present our new colleague, Rishabh Kaushal! Rishabh joined the Institute of Data Science at Maastricht University as a Postdoctoral Researcher this summer. A very warm welcome to you, Rishabh!

Rishabh has obtained a Ph.D. from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (India), and worked at the PrECOG IIITD Research Lab led by Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru in the domain of computational social science.

Before joining IDS, Rishabh worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Technology at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, a University established by the Government of NCT of Delhi. At this university, he advised undergraduate, postgraduate, and Ph.D. students in a number of research projects mostly related to the field of computational social media, computer vision, and NLP.
Rishabh has also regularly conducted summer workshops (tutorials) driven by the “learning by doing” approach in the domain of machine learning and deep learning using Python as a programming tool.

Given his keen interest in computational social science, he participated in the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) held at the University of Bologna, Italy, in June 2022. Earlier, he also participated in the
3rd Summer School on Computational Social Science, organized by GESIS in Berlin, Germany, in 2019. At this event, Rishabh and his team won the best summer school project award!

We hope you will enjoy your time with us here at Maastricht University!

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14/07/2023

The Maastricht University Institute of Data Science wishes all their followers a lovely Summer! We'll be back in the new Academic Year 🤗

14/07/2023

A warm welcome to our new colleague, Rena Yang! With her grand international experience and extensive multidisciplinary background, Rena possesses a wide range of skills and expertise, making her a versatile and accomplished individual!

Rena has a Ph.D. and MSc in Public Health and Health Systems, an MBET in Business, Entrepreneurship & Technology, and a BEng in Computer Engineering. Having previously worked as a postdoc in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo Canada, Rena has developed proficiency in statistical modeling, machine learning, and NLP on diversified data sources. She has successfully led various digital health, data science, NLP, and health information management projects, showcasing her ability to tackle real-world challenges.

Alongside her academic achievements, Rena has also gained valuable experience managing a variety of business units, including IT, customer service, marketing and sales, and operations in diverse industries like medical devices, healthcare, power transmission and distribution, eCommerce, service outsourcing, and press and media across Canada, Singapore, and China.

When she's not busy unraveling the mysteries of science, engineering, and industry, Rena's adventurous spirit leads her to explore the richness of multi-cultures and historical architecture around the globe.

Welcome to the team, Rena! We’re looking forward to the dynamic contributions you will bring to IDS, DACS & FSE!

27/06/2023

Our colleagues Birgit Wouters and Chang Sun spoke at yesterday's "Data Science meets Brain Science and Microscopy" event with Pint of Science Netherlands in Maastricht! Birgit spoke about Data Science and the Amrapali Zaveri Awards, and Chang about Personal Health Data and Diversity.

The event was organized by the initiative of Anna Schüth, in memory of our dear colleague Amrapali Zaveri (1984-2020). A wonderful video of Amrapali, created by loving and proud parents (Jyotindra Zaveri and Priti Zaveri, was shown at the beginning of the event.

Anna Schüth was awarded with the first "Amrapali Zaveri Award" for Data Science ever, and she financed the event with the money from this award. Anna and Amrapali were to work together on Anna's VENI project: The two scientists wanted to bring Brain Science, Data Science and Microscopy together. With this event, both Amrapali and her legacy were honored 🙏

The next call for the Amrapali Zaveri Awards, coordinated by Birgit Wouters, Visara Urovi and Martina Summer-Kutmon, opens in October. You can read more about the awards here: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/amrapali-zaveri-award/amrapali-zaveri-awards-data-science

27/06/2023

Today, Professor Adriana Iamnitchi will speak at the PASC23 (Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing) 2023 Conference in Davos, Switzerland.
pasc23.pasc-conference.org.

Anda's presentation is entitled "Modelling Multi-Platform Information Diffusion in Social Media: Data-Driven Observations".

Abstract:
Accurately modeling information diffusion within and across social media platforms has many practical applications, such as estimating the size of the audience exposed to a particular narrative or testing intervention techniques for addressing misinformation. However, it turns out that real data reveal phenomena that pose significant challenges to modeling: events in the physical world affect in varying ways conversations on different social media platforms; coordinated influence campaigns may swing discussions in unexpected directions; a platform’s algorithms direct who sees which message. This talk will discuss challenges in modeling social medial activity in various contexts, from political crises to coordinated disinformation campaigns.
https://pasc23.pasc-conference.org/presentation/?id=msa134&sess=sess134

27/06/2023

Last Friday (23 June), our colleague Dr. Chang Sun spoke at the at the second SICCS-ODISSEI Summer School at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her very inspiring talk on Synthetic Data sparked valuable discussions within the group!🎇
https://odissei-data.nl/calendar/sicss-odissei-summer-school-2023/

The SICCS-ODISSEI Summer School is organized by ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations), as a part of the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) and the Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities - EGSH. With the summer school, ODISSEI brings together PhD students, post-docs and early career social scientists and data scientists interested in computational social science using ODISSEI.
https://sicss.io/2023/odissei/programme

16/06/2023

We are proud to announce that Institute of Data Science at Maastricht University's Chang Sun and Birgit Wouters will speak at the "Data Science meets Brain Science & Microscopy" event on Monday 26 June. This event is organized in collaboration with Pint of Science Netherlands!

This event offers a great networking opportunity, with short pitches on all things Data Science, Brain Science, and Microscopy, with talks from different researchers from Maastricht University.

Date: Monday 26 June
Time: 17:30 - 18:30 (& after-drinks!)
Place: TheBeerLoft Maastricht, Ezelmarkt 15, 6211 LJ Maastricht
Signup: https://lnkd.in/eYN3Snb4

AGENDA
17:30 - Welcome and video of Amrapali
17:40 - Dr. Birgit Wouters: Data Science & Amrapali Zaveri awards
17:48 - Dr. Francesco Gentile: Brain Language & Science Communication
17:56 - Dr. Chang Sun: Personal Health Data
18:04 - Dr. Vincent van de Ven: Learning & Memory
18:12 - Drs. Sara Lambrichts: Vascular Dementia & Microscopy
18:20 - Dr. Anna Schüth: Microscopy on Cancer & Brain

18:30: Closing Remarks & Borrel!

Initiator Anna Schüth is financing the event with the Amrapali Zaveri Award she received at the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Maastricht Conference. The Amrapali Zaveri Awards are sponsored by Universiteitsfonds Limburg.

Amrapali Zaveri (1984-2020) was a very dear colleague, and this event was created to keep up her legacy. She believed in interdisciplinary work and that teamwork makes the dream work. Amrapali was a wonderful friend and she would have loved the idea of such a networking event, where scientists from different disciplines come together and share their ideas.
maastrichtuniversity.nl/memoriam-amrapali-zaveri

Jyotindra Zaveri

07/06/2023

The Institute of Data Science at Maastricht University and the Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine (MERLN ) are happy to invite you to the UM Data Science Research Seminar on Thursday 15 June!
https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/um-data-science-research-seminar-merln

Date: Thursday 15 June
Time: 12:00 - 13:00 (CEST)
Location: Universiteitssingel 40 (UNS40)
Room: C3.577
Speakers: Sangita Swapnasrita and Daniel Teixeira Oliveira Carvalho

Lecture 1 (12:00 -12:30) will be held by Sangita Swapnasrita and is entitled "Benchmarking Computational Peritoneal dialysis Models: A comparative study". For the abstract, please visit the event page (https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/um-data-science-research-seminar-merln).

Lecture 2 (12:30 -13:00) will be held by Daniel J. Carvalho and is entitled "A multistage model of thyroid for screening endocrine-disrupting chemicals".

Please register by Monday 12 June: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/form/sign-up-for-the-um-data-science-

The UM Data Science Research Seminar Series are monthly sessions organized by the Institute of Data Science, in collaboration with different departments across UM. The aim of these sessions is to bring together scientists from all over Maastricht University to discuss breakthroughs and research topics related to Data Science.

02/06/2023

Institute of Data Science at Maastricht University's Professor Adriana Iamnitchi is one of today's keynote speakers at the third French Regional Conference on Complex Systems (FRCCS 2023), held in Le Havre.
Anda's talk is entitled "Taming the Wild West of Social Media: The Digital Services Act and its Effects on Computational Social Science".
https://www.insna.org/events/frccs-2023

The French Regional Conference on Complex Systems (FRCCS) promotes interdisciplinary exchanges between researchers from various scientific disciplines and backgrounds (sociology, economics, history, management, archaeology, geography, linguistics, statistics, mathematics, and computer science). The conference offers an opportunity to exchange and promote the cross-fertilization of ideas by presenting recent research work, industrial developments, and original applications. Special attention is given to research topics with a high societal impact from the complexity science perspective.
https://iutdijon.u-bourgogne.fr/ccs-france/

01/06/2023

Meet Dr. Visara Urovi, your very skilled teacher for the summer school course 'Introduction to Data Science'!

Visara is an associate professor at the Institute of Data Science at Maastricht University. She has a Ph.D. degree from Royal Holloway, University of London, as well as a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Computer Science from Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna.

Her research focuses on blockchain-based solutions for data interoperability and exchange and standard-based privacy preserving distributed data exchange protocols. She has been involved in generic platform solutions for data interoperability and exchange and is the primary investigator of the PRIMA project, a blockchain-based solution focusing on health data exchange.

Dr. Urovi is currently working on LUCE, an open-source blockchain platform for monitoring data licenses (github.com/arnoan/LUCE). Visara applies her solutions to clinical decision-making and to the eHealth/mHealth domain. She is also the coordinator of the course 'Data Science in Healthcare' at the Maastricht University Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences

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24/05/2023

🌞Data Science Summer School: DEADLINE EXTENDED🌞

Data are everywhere, and a correct interpretation, utilisation and visualisation of (research) data are of high importance. Therefeore, the Institute of Data Science at Maastricht University and Maastricht Summer School offer an Introduction to Data Science this summer (12 - 23 June): https://maastricht.dreamapply.com/courses/course/218-introduction-data-science?search=42680

Duration: 2 weeks (12 -23 June)
Tuition Fee: € 899
ECTS: 3.0

The 'Introduction to Data Science’ course will cover the basic methods and practices of a data science project. Aside from gaining basic programming skills in Python, you will also learn how to select, clean, analyse, visualise and interpret data. The course will be taught by associate professor Dr. Visara Urovi.
https://maastricht.dreamapply.com/courses/course/218-introduction-data-science?search=42680

For more information, please contact Visara Urovi via e-mail: [email protected]

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