Current
News
03 August 2023
Seventeen Veni grants for leading TU Delft researchers
The Dutch Research Council (NOW) has awarded Veni funding of up to EUR 280,000 to 188 promising researchers from the full breadth of science. In the fields of Applied and Technical Sciences (TTW) and Exact and Natural Sciences (ENW), seventeen scientists from TU Delft have been honoured. This will allow the laureates to further develop their own research ideas over the next three years.
19 July 2023
ELLIS Delft Unit shares vision on important risks of machine learning, and what would be its potential benefits
17 July 2023
Flying robots survey biodiversity and climate inside tropical rainforests
In the sweltering and humid tropical rainforest, a vibrant ecosystem thrives. Birds of paradise, monkeys, bats, and insects harmoniously move about in the tree canopy, all making their own distinctive sounds. But then, a newcomer arrives: a small quadcopter drone hovers through the foliage, looking for a branch to land on.
07 July 2023
Extra-resilient crops through integration of plant biology, simulation models and AI
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announced its contribution of 15 million euros to PlantXR, a CropXR research programme into 'smart breeding' of extra resilient crops (eXtra Resilient, XR). This impulse brings CropXR's total budget to over €90 million for the next 10 years. NWO’s grant marks the start of the new Dutch institute CropXR, which integrates plant biology, computational modelling, and artificial intelligence into 'smart breeding methods'. Those will be used to develop crop varieties that are more resilient to climate change and less dependent on chemical crop protection. In CropXR, TU Delft works together with Utrecht University, Wageningen University and Research, the University of Amsterdam and dozens of plant breeding, biotech and processing companies on basic scientific research, data collection and data sharing, education, and advancing broad application of the results.
29 June 2023
Eight TU Delft researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded eight TU Delft researchers from the Science (ENW) and Applied and Engineering Sciences (AES) domains, a Vidi grant of up to 800,000 euro. This will enable the laureates to develop an innovative line of research over the next five years and further expand their own research group. A total of 97 Vidi grants were awarded.
27 June 2023
Spring Event 2023 a great success
Since the start of the Delft AI Labs & Talent Programme in 2020, we come together with this growing community during the yearly Spring Event. With over 175 talented and ambitious academics connected to and through this programme, we look back at the exiting third edition of 15 June 2023 bringing together colleagues from all faculties, Delft AI Labs and from all corners of the AI-field at our university.
22 June 2023
ELLIS Delft Unit’s poster event was a great success
On Wednesday 14th of June in TU Delft’s Mondai | House of AI, we celebrated the Delft machine learning and AI ecosystem, focusing on past activities and future ambitions of the ELLIS Delft Unit and the broader TU Delft AI Initiative.
20 June 2023
Erasmus MC and TU Delft open first healthcare AI-ethics lab
Staff shortages and the constant desire to provide high-quality medical care. These are only two of the most important reasons for a sharp increase in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare in the coming years. By launching the first healthcare AI Ethics Lab, Erasmus MC and TU Delft put the focus on ethically responsible and clinically relevant AI that will positively impact both patient care and healthcare workers.
07 June 2023
ChatGPT designs its first robot with TU Delft researchers
Can ChatGPT also design a robot? And is this a good thing for the design process, or are there risks? TU Delft researchers published their findings in Nature Machine Intelligence.
31 May 2023
Chips that mimic the brain's adaptability and efficiency
Our world knows more and more supercomputers. But do not be mistaken: the most efficient – and perhaps more importantly: the most flexible – computing is done in the brain, human or otherwise. So what can we learn from how the brain computes? Charlotte Frenkel, recently recognized by NWO as one of the Netherlands' biggest AI talents and thus officially an ‘AiNed fellow’, intends to find out. This new grant allows Frenkel to start a team to research the possibilities of neuromorphic computer chips, inspired by the neocortex area in the brain.
Events
October
November
More than the sum of its parts
Expert meeting on AI and Transitional Justice
Programming on the GPU with CUDA
Boost your creativity through reversed prompting
ELLIS Delft Talk by Emir Demirović: Optimal Decision Trees (with Constraints) via Dynamic Programming and Search
AI, Knowledge and Branding with former IKEA AI professionals
Port Transition Challenge
Symposium - Feminist AI: Shaping Ethical Futures
PhD Workshop: Feminist approach to generative AI
SIKS Symposium on Decision Diagrams for Optimization
People/Portrait on the Fly artist talk & opening reception
People/Portrait on the Fly live generative video exhibition
AI Prompt Battle
December
AI series @ TU Delft
Meet AI-related colleagues at one of the many AI-related event series across campus. Do you organise, contribute to, or know of another AI-related series @ TU Delft? Get in touch
ELLIS Delft Talk
Monthly talk hosted hybrid by ELLIS Delft Unit members, which brings together much of our ‘IN’ machine learning research.
Contact: ELLIS Delft Unit
Machine Learning Teachers Get Together
6-weekly lunch events organised across campus.
Contact: Machine Learning Teachers community
Climate / AI
Workshop event co-organised by AI Initiative & Climate Action Programme on 3 October 2024. More events on this intersection are expected January 2025 onwards.
Contact: Charlotte Boelens
Inclusive AI
See panel March 2024. More on this topic is expected to be organised quarterly with AI DeMoS Lab from December 2024 onwards.
Contact: Taylor Stone
AI for Energy and Sustainability (E&S) Think Tank
Recurring think tank series at intersection of AI/Energy hosted by the Delft AI Energy Lab and the PowerWeb Institute. Fourth serie expected in 2024/2025.
Contact: Jochen Cremer
AI Futures Lab Talk Series
Regular talk series organised by AI Futures Lab on campus & online.
Contact: AI Futures Lab
Academic Fringe Festival
D@S Lab regularly hosts (bi)weekly online talk series with their The Academic Fringe Festival. Fourth series starting in 2024/2025.
Contact: Ujwal Gadiraju
Meaningful Human-AI Interactions for a Digital Society
Seminar series supported by the National Digital Society Programme, Mondai | House of AI, the TU Delft AI Initiative, Web Information Systems (WIS), and the Digital Ethics Centre.
Contact:
AI Insights
Quarterly interdisciplinary educational platform organised at Faculty of Architecture and Built and Environment.
Contact: Design, Data and Society Group