Teaching

Courses

Here are links to some of the courses I am teaching or have taught in the past. I am currently involved in the Web Science Minor that the FEW faculty provides

Student supervision

Here is a list of some of the student projects (B.Sc. as well as M.Sc.) I supervised or am currently supervising at VU and UvA. Current projects can be found on the VU Information Sciences Master Project wiki page.

  • [2013] Andrea Bravo Balado, MSc. Artificial Intelligence on "Extracting maritime-historical events"
  • [2013] Kasper Brandt, MSc. Artificial Intelligence on "Linked Data for IATI"
  • [2013] Alan Chavoshe, MSc. Information Science on "Linked Data for the Landportal"
  • [2012/2013] Jan Kuppens. BSc. IMM on "Improving the User Experience for a School management web application"
  • [2012/2013]Deepak Chhetri, M.Sc Information Sciences on Voice-based user interfaces for users in Developing Countries [Voices Project] [Thesis].
  • [2012] Khalid Khakham, BSc. IMM on "SocialNews - Enriching News with Social Media" [Thesis]
  • [2012] Nam Nguyen, BSc. IMM on "A different approach for an URL recommendation system". [Thesis]
  • [2011/2012] Binyam Mersea Tesfa, M.Sc Information Sciences on a Crowdsourcing App for Regreening in Africa [Voices Project, co-supervisor Pieter De Leenheer][Thesis].
  • [2011/2012] Niels Ockeloen, M.Sc Information Sciences on Developing middleware for navigation-based Linked Data applications [Plaatsen van Betekenis, co-supervisor Lora Aroyo] [Thesis].
  • [2011/2012] Edwin Schootemeijer, M.Sc Information Sciences on his thesis User Interaction Design for a LOD-Based Mobile Cultural City Tour Guide [Thesis] [Plaatsen van Betekenis, co-supervisor Lora Aroyo].
  • [2011/2012] Henk Kroon, M.Sc Information Sciences on "Ecomash: Linked Market Data for Sahel Eco" [Thesis] [Voices, co-supervisor Pieter de Leenheer]
  • [2009] Thomas van den Berg, UvA B.Sc Information Science on Using Color and Composition to Classify Web Pages [SiteGuide, thesis]
  • [2009] Jevon van Dijk, UvA B.Sc Information Science on Retrieving similar websites and web pages [SiteGuide, thesis]
  • [2009] Marc Bron, UvA M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence on semi-supervised information extraction using pattern induction
  • [2007] Casper Kuijjer, UvA M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence on expanding semantic lexicons using Information Extraction thesis]