Invited Speakers
Max Welling
Research chair of Machine Learning at the University of Amsterdam, Vice President of Technologies at Qualcomm: Wireless Technology & Innovation
Prof. Dr. Max Welling is a research chair in Machine Learning at the University of Amsterdam, and Vice President of Technologies at Qualcomm. He has a secondary appointment as a senior fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). He is co-founder of "Scyfer BV", a university spin-off in deep learning. In the past he held postdoctoral positions at Caltech, University College London and the University of Toronto. He received his PhD in 1998 under supervision of Nobel laureate Prof. Gerard 't Hooft. Max Welling wrote the Dutch popular science book: "Over leven met Kunstmatige Intelligentie (Living with AI)", and has written over 250 scientific publications in machine learning, computer vision, statistics and physics.
Nikki Arendse
PhD Fellow at the Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Nikki Arendse is PhD Fellow at the Dark Cosmology Centre of the University of Copenhagen. She obtained her degree at the University of Groningen, investigating the build-up of the Local Group galaxies with the CLUES simulation. Her current research interests include the local determination of the Hubble constant, first using time-delay cosmography through strong lensing with H0LiCow, and recently through machine learning methods. Her goal is to explore possible solutions to the resulting Hubble tension, including new early time and late time physics.
Miguel Aragon
Assistant Professor at the National Astronomical Observatory, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Dr. Miguel Aragon is a computational cosmologist who works at the intersection between Artificial Intelligence, Cosmology and Art. He currently works as an Assistant Professor at the National Astronomical Observatory at the Autonomous University of Mexico. His main areas of research include the large scale structure of the Universe, galaxy formation, machine learning, data mining and data visualization. His works in these areas have been featured on the National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, BBC, Science Magazine and other media.
Job Feldbrugge
Joint Postdoctoral Researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo) and Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh)
Dr. Job Feldbrugge is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo (Canada) and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (United States). His passion is the application of abstract mathematics in theoretical physics to further our understanding of cosmological observations. His main research interests include the early Universe, large scale structure formation and quantum cosmology. At the University of Groningen he acquired Cum Laude three bachelor and three master degrees: Astronomy, Physics and Mathematics. This achievement, in combination with his thesis on the "Statistics of Caustics in Large-Scale Structure Formation", won him the first "De Zeeuw-Van Dishoeck" graduate award.