Professor  
Department of Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science (LIACS)
Leiden University, Snellius 158
Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands

Research Interests
I am professor in artificial intelligence at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science (LIACS) of  Leiden University, the Netherlands, where I head, with Thomas Moerland, the Sustainable Energy Learning Lab and the Reinforcement Learning Group.  I am interested in large language models, music, and self-learning systems. Please have a look at my books:

Bio
I studied artificial intelligence with Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta, Edmonton and Arie de Bruin & Wim Pijls at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam where I obtained my PhD in 1996. I worked with Charles Leiserson at the MIT Lab for Computer Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the Cilk parallel computing system. Later I worked with Henri Bal at VU Amsterdam on scalable algorithms. In 2014 I joined Leiden University. From 2016-2023 I served two terms as scientific director of LIACS.

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