Team

Mitra is an assistant professor in LIACS and member of ADA Research Group. Mitra's research is focused on spatio-temporal and mobility data modeling. She designs algorithms that process trajectories of moving objects such as cars, people, and animals. Such research is targeting applications in crowd monitoring, smart mobility, and urban planning. Her goal is to make such variety of mobility-based applications more accessible through automating the process of learning models from raw mobility data.

m.baratchi@liacs.leidenuniv.nl

Daniela is a doctoral student working on methods to integrate multimodal data and extract information from such data. Her research is part of the project Dementia Back in the Heart of the Community where the use of a public park by patients with dementia, their families and people from the neighborhood is assessed. She will leverage information theory to integrate observational, questionnaire and sensor data to extract meaningful patterns from them. Her work is supervised by Matthijs van Leeuwen, her promotor is Aske Plaat.

d.gawehns@liacs.leidenuniv.nl

Giorgos is a master's student in Computer Science & Advanced Data Analytics. He is working on his master thesis project on reinforcement learning. Exploring different reinforcement learning and AI algorithms, his current thesis research is based on a recently new algorithm called Proximal Policy Optimization. It outperforms almost all earlier algortihms in several AI environments and provides latitude for further exploration and upgrades. The research is supervised by Walter Kosters.

g.kyziridis@liacs.leidenuniv.nl

Hossein A. Rahmani is a master's student at the University of Zanjan, where he is working on his master thesis under the supervision of Mitra Baratchi. He is interested in problems at the intersection of Machine Learning, Data Analysis and BigData as well as Data Mining. He is currently working on Point-of-Interest recommender systems, a project to recommend locations in location-based social networks.