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Welcome to Fatemeh Jafari, the second doctoral student to join my team! I will co-supervise her with dr. Fabian Mies (Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics) and prof. dr. Mathijs de Weerdt during her 4-year PhD journey at the Algorithmics section.
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Welcome to Bruna Bazaluk, the first doctoral student to join my team! I will co-supervise her with dr. Sicco Verwer during her 4-year PhD journey at the Algorithmics section.
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On 9 December 2025, my student Denisa Arsene will present our work on social network anonymisation at the 14th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, held in Binghamton, New York, USA!
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Figuring out how much detail you should provide in your reports and presentations is tricky. Ask and answer three questions to gauge at which level you should explain things.
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Welcome to my new MSc student, Sreevidya Iyer, whose thesis project I will be supervising with Dr. Emir Demirović!
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Welcome to Roxana Băcălie, my new MSc student, whose thesis project I will be co-supervising with Dr. Max Bannach and Dr. Neil Yorke-Smith!
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Welcome to my first Honours Student: Gianmaria Piergianni!
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I am honoured to announce that I am among the 2024 NWO Veni research grant recipients!
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I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the intersection of Algorithmics and Statistics. Application deadline: 31 August 2025. Click here for details.
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Many congratulations to ir. Roy Katz for successfully defending his MSc thesis: Adding Ejection Chain to Nurse Rostering Simulated Annealing Solver!
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Today, ir. Andrei “Andrew” Mereuţa successfully defended his MSc thesis: Multi-Meal, Multi-Constraint Recommender System to Optimize Grocery Budget and Waste. Many congratulations to him for reaching this milestone!
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Despite not knowing anything about your research, I can still give you some advice on how to design your experiments.
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Today marks my 1-year anniversary as an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology. It’s time to ask some questions.
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As I sit on the picnic bench, I finally feel some serenity. The stuffy air, the soothing warmth, the tree frog chirps. They calm my body and my soul, reminding me of the quiet evening walks that I used to take in Bukit Batok Nature Park, surrounded by nothing but trees, ghosts, and the occasional colugo glaring at me through the darkness.
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One week from now, on 27 November 2024, I will present our IJCAI 2023 paper at the inaugural symposium of the new Special Interest Group for Algorithms (SIGAlgo). SIGAlgo is part of IPN, the ICT-Research Platform Netherlands, and focuses on fundamental, applied and complexity-oriented research on algorithms.
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I am happy to announce that my co-authors and I have released the preprint of our new paper: The Cardinality of Identifying Code Sets for Soccer Ball Graph with Application to Remote Sensing, available here.
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Despite how others perceive me, I am actually quite shy. When faced with a room full of people, all huddled together in their little groups, chatting and having fun, I often find myself frozen and insecure. Who should I approach? How do I join a conversation? Where do I start?
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The first conferences I ever attended as a doctorate student were IJCAI 2017 and CP 2017, which both took place in Melbourne. At the time, I had a position as a visiting researcher at ICTEAM at Université catholique de Louvain. After the conference, three fellow doctorate students from UC Louvain and I travelled to Tasmania, for a two-and-a-half-day trip. It resulted in one of my favourite travel stories of all time.
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Last week I attended the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2023) in Macao, SAR.
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My first paper since joining Prof. Dr. Kuldeep Meel’s group at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has been accepted to IJCAI 2023! The topic of this paper was a completely new direction for me, and I learned a lot during this project. I had the great privilege to work with Kuldeep and with Prof. Dr. Arunabha Sen for Arizona State University (ASU) on this project, and learned a lot from each of them. In this blog post, I will share a bit about the problem that we solve, why it needs solving, and how we solve it, introducing our new tool: gismo.
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Two months ago, I defended my dissertation. I am very grateful to my advisors, my doctorate committee, my opposition committee, and my paranimphs. I thought long and hard about which thank-you presents would be appropriate and of value to them. In the end, I just decided to present them with some wisdom.
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As a Master student, I once asked Siegfried if I should use ‘‘I’’ or ‘‘we’’ in my thesis. After all, the words were written by me, but we did the research together. He explained that, even if you are the sole author of a text, you should always write ‘‘we’’, because no piece of research ever is the product of just one person. I believed him then, but the experience of being a PhD candidate drove the lesson home, never to be forgotten. In this blog post, however, I am truly ‘‘I’’, and use it to thank those that make us ‘‘we’’.
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Last weekend, we learned that professor Fahiem Bacchus had passed away. I was, and still am absolutely devastated to hear this news.
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Just like last year, the International Workshop on Counting and Sampling was held online, in conjunction with the SAT conference. Just like last year, I was honoured to be invited to submit an extended abstract to this workshop.
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I am very proud of my student Jeroen Rook, who defended his Master thesis today! The title of his presentation was: Caching in Model Counters: A Journey through Space and Time. With a very general audience, Jeroen had his work cut out for him to explain not only his work, but also the basics of propositional model counting.
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Actually, that is not true. I am an outstanding reviewer! Or so say the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the AAAI-21 Program Committee.
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I feel like I just levelled-up as a scientist! Yesterday, the wonderful Daniël Fokkinga graduated with a very nice grade!
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Yesterday was a very special day: Daniël Fokkinga, the master student who I have been supervising together with Marie Anastacio, Holger Hoos and Siegfried Nijssen, presented and defended his master thesis!
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Last week I attended the Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (BNAIC) for the first time. This year, it was held in Brussels, in my beloved Belgium.
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This summer I got to attend the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) for the third year in a row!
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To my surprise, I won an award for public speaking!
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Op vrijdag 16 november 2018 organiseren VHTO (Landelijk expertisebureau meisjes/vrouwen en bèta/techniek) en LIAXX (het vrouwennetwerk van de opleiding Informatica aan Universiteit Leiden) weer een Informatics Ladies’ Day (ILD)!