Promotor: J. N. Kok, Co-promotor: A. J. Knobbe

This thesis investigates the contribution of quantum computers to machine learning, a field called Quantum Machine Learning. Quantum Machine Learning promises innovative perspectives and methods for solving complex problems in machine learning, leveraging the unique capabilities of quantum computers…

The focus of this thesis is on the technical methods which help promote the movement towards Trustworthy AI, specifically within the Inspectorate of the Netherlands.

Sewer pipes are an essential infrastructure in modern society and their proper operation is important for public health. To keep sewer pipes operational as much as possible, periodical inspections for defects are performed.

Time-series forecasting through modelling sequences of temporally dependent observations has many industrial and scientific applications. While machine learning models have been widely used to create time-series forecasting models, creating efficient and performant time-series forecasting models is…

The ongoing increase in antimicrobial resistance combined with the low discovery of novel antibiotics is a serious threat to our health care.

The marine shipping industry is one of the strongest emitters of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a pollutant detrimental to ecology and human health. Over the last 20 years, the pollution produced by power plants, the industry sector, and cars has been decreasing.

This thesis focuses on data found in the field of computational drug discovery. New insight can be obtained by applying machine learning in various ways and in a variety of domains. Two studies delved into the application of proteochemometrics (PCM), a machine learning technique that can be used to…

‘We hopen dat ons artikel de mogelijkheden en voordelen laat zien van het gebruik van kunstmatige intelligentie in de quantumfysica om nieuwe ontdekkingen te doen.’ Vedran Dunjko van het Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science droeg bij aan een artikel dat vorig jaar verscheen in PNAS. Het artikel…

It is a common technique in global optimization with expensive black-box functions to learn a surrogate-model of the response function from past evaluations and use it to decide on the location of future evaluations.

Zeeschepen stoten nog te veel stikstofoxiden uit. Op volle zee is dat onmogelijk te meten, maar dat gaat veranderen. Solomiia Kurchaba combineerde (satelliet)data en ontwikkelde algoritmen om te kunnen aanwijzen welk schip te veel uitstoot. Kurchaba promoveerde 11 juni.

Novel entities may pose risks to humans and the environment. The small particle size and relatively large surface area of micro- and nanoparticles (MNPs) make them capable of adsorbing other novel entities, leading to the formation of aggregated contamination.

The research in this dissertation aims to optimise blood donation processes in the framework of the Dutch national blood bank Sanquin. The primary health risk for blood donors is iron deficiency, which is evaluated based on donors' hemoglobin and ferritin levels.

Als gevolg van de grote technologische vooruitgang in de gezondheidszorg worden in toenemende mate gegevens verzameld tijdens de uitvoering van klinische onderzoeken.

Transport inspectorates are looking for novel methods to identify dangerous behavior, ultimately to reduce risks associated to the movements of people and goods. We explore a data-driven approach to arrive at smart inspections of vehicles.

Quantum hardware comes with a different computing paradigm and new ways to tackle applications. Much effort has to be put into understanding how to leverage this technology to give real-world advantages in areas of interest for industries such as combinatorial optimization or machine learning.

In this thesis, we examine various systems through the lens of several numerical methods.

Leiden University and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management are involved in a collaboration in the form of a research project titled 'Data-Driven Risk Assessment in Infrastructure Networks'

Radiography is an important technique to inspect objects, with applications in airports and hospitals. X-ray imaging is also essential in industry, for instance in food safety checks for the presence of foreign objects.

Mining time series is a machine learning subfield that focuses on a particular data structure, where variables are measured over (short or long) periods of time.

Uncertainty and noise are frequently-encountered obstacles in real-world applications of numerical optimization. The practice of optimization that deals with uncertainties and noise is commonly referred to as robust optimization.

In this work, we attempt to answer the question:

Bacteriophages, or phages for short, are the most abundant biological entity in nature. They shape bacterial communities and are a major driving force in bacterial evolution.

By training with virtual opponents known as computer generated forces (CGFs), trainee fighter pilots can build the experience necessary for air combat operations, at a fraction of the cost of training with real aircraft.

Promotor: K.J. Batenburg

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-Promotores: T. Reijmers, L. Coulier

Particles are omnipresent in biopharmaceutical products. In protein-based therapeutics such particles are generally associated with impurities, either derived from the drug product itself (e.g. protein aggregates), or from extrinsic contaminations (e.g. cellulose fibers).

Een intelligente vertaalmachine gebaseerd op nieuwe ontwikkelingen in machine learning gaat de concurrentie aan met grote vertaalservices als die van Google. Maar ook Google maakt grote vorderingen sinds het is het is overgestapt op deep learning, aldus informatica-onderzoeker Suzan Verberne in de V…

More than 5,000 exoplanets have been found over the past couple of decades. These exoplanets show a tremendous diversity, ranging from scorching hot Jupiters, common super-Earths, to widely separated super-Jupiters on the planet/brown dwarf boundary.

In this thesis, topics relating to the optimization of high-throughput pipelines used for imaging are discussed. In particular, different levels of implementation, i.e., conceptual, software, and hardware, are discussed and the thesis outlines how advances on each level need to be made to make gains…

Prof.dr. Peter Grünwald, hoogleraar Statistisch leren, heeft donderdag 8 april de Van Dantzigprijs uitgereikt gekregen, de hoogste Nederlandse prijs voor statistiek en besliskunde.

NRC bespreekt met vier universiteiten de braindrain die zich in Nederland op het gebied van kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) afspeelt.

Reinforcement learning, agents en classificatie: dit zijn slechts enkele van de onderwerpen die onderzoekers op de BNAIC/BeneLearn-conferentie 2020 hebben besproken. Het was de eerste keer dat de Universiteit Leiden als gastheer optrad voor de jaarlijkse Belgisch Nederlandse Kunstmatige Intelligentie…

Industrial manufacturing processes, such as the production of steel or the stamping of car body parts, are complex semi-batch processes with many process steps, machine parameters and quality indicators.

This thesis describes the importance of being able to control the selectivity of potential drug candidates.

Promotor: A.P.IJzerman Co-promotor: A. Bender

Europa ligt op het gebied van kunstmatige intelligentie achter op China en de Verenigde Staten, wat zorgt voor een brain drain van talentvolle studenten en wetenschappers. Een hoogstaand onderzoeksinstituut voor kunstmatige intelligentie kan het tij keren, aldus initiatiefnemer Holger Hoos, hoogleraar…

Inverse problems are problems where we want to estimate the values of certain parameters of a system given observations of the system. Such problems occur in several areas of science and engineering. Inverse problems are often ill-posed, which means that the observations of the system do not uniquely…

Real-life processes are characterized by dynamics involving time. Examples are walking, sleeping, disease progress in medical treatment, and events in a workflow.

The high velocity tail of the total velocity distribution of stars provides essential insight into fundamental properties of the Galaxy.