Prof.dr. Tom Heskes
Data Science, Institute for Computing and Information Sciences
Radboud University Nijmegen,
Toernooiveld 212, 6525 EC  Nijmegen
The Netherlands
Tel: 31-24-3652696
tom.heskes@ru.nl
http://www.cs.ru.nl/~tomh


Career
 
 1989-1993: PhD, Radboud University Nijmegen
 1993-1994: Postdoc, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA
 1994-2004: Senior researcher, SNN and director of spin-off company SMART Research BV
 2004-2008: Assistant/associate Professor Radboud University Nijmegen, Computer Science
 2008-    : Full Professor Radboud University Nijmegen, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
 2009-2014: Research Director of the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences
 2016-2020: Education Director for Computing Science and Information Sciences
 2016     : Initiator of the Radboud Data Science Centre
 2017     : Co-founder of the spin-off Machine2Learn
 2018     : Co-initiator of Radboud AI
 2023-    : Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science


Research interests

  - Machine learning (causal discovery and inference, uncertainty quantification, deep learning, explainability, ...);
  - Applications to other sciences (e.g., biology, healthcare, physics, astronomy) and industry


Grants

  - NWA OBSerVeD, 2022
  - ISPT The Heat is On, 2021
  - eScience ASDI, 2021
  - NWA CORTEX, 2019
  - NWA PrimaVera, 2019
  - Data2Person, Commit2Data, 2018
  - DrComics, TTW, NWO, 2017
  - TOP, ZonMW, 2016
  - TOP, NWO, 2014
  - MATRICS, EU FP7, 2013
  - OPTIMISTIC, EU FP7, 2012
  - TACTICS, EU FP7, 2011
  - SYNCOBE, NWO Complexity, 2010
  - Learning2Reason, NWO Open, 2010
  - GeNeUSS, NWO Computational Life Sciences, 2007
  - Braingain, SmartMix, 2007
  - VICI, NWO, 2006 
  - Personalization of hearing aids, STW, 2006
  - Bayesian brain-computer interfacing, STW, 2005
  - AI4IA; Marie Curie Research Training Network, 2004
  - Sales forecasting through aggregation, STW, 2000
  - Graphical models for data mining, STW, 2000


Professional activities

  - Editor-in-Chief of Neurocomputing between 2003 and 2015
  - Associate Editor BMC Systems Biology, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, and International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
  - Organizer of BNAIC 2003, PRIB 2010, and BENELEARN 2013
  - PC chair of UAI 2015
  - PC member of more than 100 conferences and workshops
  - Member of various international evaluation and PhD committees 
  - Over 50 invited presentations at international conferences and institutes