Academic service record
- Workshop and conference organisation (compensation (if any): waived or reduced registration fees)
- Editorial work (compensation: none)
- Referee services (compensation (if any): in-kind or paid to the university)
- Program committee (PC) memberships
- non-PC reviewing
- Journal reviewing
- Publisher reviewing
- Funding agency reviewing
- PhD examinations (compensation (if any): (travel) expenses)
- Various committee memberships (compensation (if any): in-kind or paid to the university)
Workshop and conference organisation
Scientific content
- PGM (International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models) 2024 (co-chair, program co-chair)
- Heterodox methods for interpretable and efficient AI (HMIEAI); associated with the first HHAI conference, 2022 (co-chair)
- UAI (Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence)2015 (tutorial chair)
- PGM (International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models) 2014 (program co-chair)
- ECSQARU (European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty) 2013 (program co-chair)
- Bayesian Modelling Applications Workshop (Associated with UAI): 2008 (co-chair), 2009 (pogram co-chair)
Local organisation
- PGM (International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models) 2014 (organising committee)
- ECSQARU (European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty) 2013 (local organisation co-chair)
- PGM (Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models): 2004 (organising committee)
Session chair
- ECSQARU 2003, PGM 2004, BNAIC 2004, Bayesian Applications Workshop 2008, PGM 2008, PGM 2010, PGM 2012, PGM 2014, ECSQARU 2015, ECSQARU 2017, PGM 2020, HMIEAI 2022, PGM 2022, Workshop in celebration of Cor Steging defending his dissertation `Designing Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Hybrid Approaches for Aligning Learning and Reasoning'
Editorial work
(Guest) Editorships
- Planned: Special Issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning with selected PGM 2024 papers
- Special Issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning with selected PGM 2014 papers
- Special Issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning with selected ECSQARU 2013 papers (managing guest editor)
- Workshop proceedings of the 2008 Bayesian Modelling Applications Workshop (co-editor)
Editorial board memberships
- JAIR (Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research), July 2010 - July 2013
- JAIR (Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research), July 2013 - December 2016 (second term)
- The Scientific World Journal: Probability and Statistics subject area, October 2013 - September 2016
Referee services
Program committee (PC) memberships
- AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference on Artificial Intelligence): 2007, 2011
- AIME (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe) Workshop on qualitative and model-based reasoning in biomedicine: 2003
- BNAIC (Belgium-Netherlands Artificial Intelligence Conference): 2003, 2004, 2017
- ECAI (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence): 2010, 2012, 2018 (senior PC; joint with IJCAI), 2023
- ECSQARU (European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Reasoning under Uncertainty): 2011, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2025
- FLAIRS (International FLorida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium) -- Special track on Uncertain Reasoning: 2001
- FLAIRS: 2002, 2003
- HHAI (International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence): 2022, 2023, 2024
- HMIEAI (Heterodox methods for interpretable and efficient AI): 2022
- IEA/AIE (International Conference on Industrial, Engineering, Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems) -- Special track Graphical Models: from theory to applications: 2017
- IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence): 2011, 2013 (Senior PC), 2018 (Senior PC; joint with ECAI), 2020 (Senior PC; joint with PRICAI), 2021 (Demo track)
- ISIPTA (International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications): 2019
- PGM (International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models): 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024
- PRICAI (Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence): 2020 (Senior PC; joint with IJCAI)
- SARPGM (Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis and Robustness in Probabilistic Graphical Models): 2015
- UAI (Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence): 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023 (Top Reviewer), 2025 (Area Chair)
- UAI Bayesian Modelling Applications Workshop: 2009, 2011
- XLoKR (Workshop on Explainable Logic-Based Knowledge Representation): 2022, 2023
non-PC reviewing
- BNAIC (Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence): 2011
- ECAI (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence): 2004
- ECIS (European Conference on Information Systems): 2013
- IPMU (International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-based Systems): 2012
- SOFSEM (International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science): 2006
- UAI (Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence): 1998, 1999, 2001
- UAI Bayesian Modelling Applications Workshop: 2006
Journal reviewing (incidental)
- Advances in Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- Annals of Statistics
- Data and Knowledge Engineering
- Environmental Modelling & Software
- European Journal of Operational Research
- Geological Prior Information: Value and Quantification
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- IEEE transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - part B
- Information Sciences
- International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
- International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools
- International Journal of Intelligence Systems
- International Journal of Systems Science
- Journal of Applied Logic
- Journal of Systems and Software
- Mathematical Problems in Engineering
- Medical Decision Making
- Psychological Reports: Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Risk Analysis
- Springer Plus
- The Knowledge Engineering Review
Publisher reviewing (incidental: book/chapter proposals)
- Cambridge University Press
- Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
- Nova Science Publishers
Funding agency reviewing and assessment (incidental: grant proposals)
- Cancer Research UK
- NWO (Dutch Research Council): Commit2Data-Horizontaal 2016, Rubicon 2021, 2023
PhD examinations
(For PhD supervision, see the Projects page.)Examinator
- At and prior to defense (prior = reading committee)
- 2023/2024: G.H. Dal, University of Twente
- 2021: E. de Souza da Silva, Computer Science, NTNU, Norway
- 2019/2020: M. Bueno, LIACS, Leiden University, NL
- 2017: M. Bendtsen, Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden
- 2009: J. Kwisthout, Computer Science, Utrecht University, NL
- At defense only
- 2014: G.A.M Lappenschaar, Computer Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
- 2008: S. Visscher, Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, NL
- 2008: J.H. Bolt, Computer Science, Utrecht University, NL
- 2005: D. Sent, Computer Science, Utrecht University, NL
- Reading committee only
- 2010: T. Boneh, Monash University Melbourne, Clayton School of Information Technology, Australia
Foreign reviewer
- 2016: R.M. Fernández Ropero, Biology and Geology, University of Almeria, Spain
Various other committee memberships
Assessment & selection
- BKOw (Basic Teaching Qualification) departmental assessment committee (2018 - 2023)
- SKOw (Senior Teaching Qualification) departmental assessment committee (2021 - 2023)
- Various hiring committees (2002 - present): PhD-students, Teaching positions, Westerdijk fellows, Assistant professorships, Full professorship ('BAC')
- Internal selection committee for bachelor programme director (2023)
- Expert assessment for employment (2023): Associate professorship NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
- Assessment committee (2024): Assistant professorships AAU, Aalborg University, Denmark
Educational
- Working group Teaching Support Office, winter 2022-2023
- Board of Examiners Graduate School of Natural Sciences (member) and Executive panel of the Artificial Intelligence master programme (chair), September 2016 - August 2022
- 'Contextwerkgroep' (advice on curriculum revision), spring 2011
- 'Rendementen en Leren-werkgroep', 2009-2011 (chair 2010/2011)
- 'Opleidingscommissie' (education advisory committee), March 2002 - May 2004
- 'Promovendiraad' (PhD Students Advisory Committee) of the Dutch research School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS), March 1997- December 1999
Outreach
- 'Voorlichtingscommissie Informatica' (Committee for prospective student outreach), April 2005 - end 2011
During and since my committee membership I have contributed to the following outreach activities: - Regular presenter at Bachelor Information days
- Presenter at 'Themamiddag over overgang van VO naar WO, voor decanen en mentoren' (November 2022)
- Poster for Women in Information and Computing Sciences (WICS) (2019)
- Presenter at Master Information events (2009 - 2016)
- Presenter Rector's League (2010 - 2013)
Other
- 'Kascommissie' BNVKI (financial committee Benelux Association for Artificial Intelligence) 2010
- 'Feestcommissie 25 jaar Informatica': organisation of the party for staff and students in January 2009