About me

I am an Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Business at the University of Amsterdam Business School and a guest researcher at the Informatics Institute of the UvA. In my research I aim at enabling large-scale multimedia analytics based on the relevance criteria defined at a higher semantic level, by jointly analysing visual content and the heterogeneous information associated with it, ranging from text, automatically generated metadata and open data statistics to information about users and their social network. What fascinates me is the potential of artificial intelligence in addressing important societal challenges, such as liveability and security.

Interests: multimedia, computer vision, information retrieval, machine learning

News

• 15-04-2020: Ujjwal Sharma presented our paper titled Semantic Path-Based Learning for Review Volume Prediction at 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020)
• 15-04-2020: Omar Shahbaz Khan presented our paper titled Interactive Learning for Multimedia at Large at 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020)
• 06-01-2020: We organised another successful edition of Special Session on Multimedia Analytics: Perspectives, Techniques and Applications (MAPTA) at the 26th MultiMedia Modeling conference (MMM 2020) in Daejeon, South Korea
• 24-10-2019: Devanshu Arya presented our Brave New Ideas paper titled HyperLearn: A Distributed Approach for Representation Learning in Datasets With Many Modalities at 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2020)
• 23-10-2019: Maarten Sukel presented our paper titled Multimodal Classification of Urban Micro-Events at 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2020)
• 22-10-2019: Omar Shahbaz Khan demonstrated our Exquisitor system at 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2020)
• 09-10-2019: I will be organizing a Special Session on Multimedia Information Retrieval for Urban Data at ACM ICMR 2020 in Dublin with Alessandro Bozzon, Nanda Piersma and Tat-Seng Chua.

PhD students

• Thanos Efthymiou: Tipping points in categorization and canonization in the art market
• Ujjwal Sharma: AI and Marketing: Optimal Store Placement, Popularity and Design
• Maarten Sukel: Improving Response to Citizen Reports Using Artificial Intelligence
• Inske Groenen: Multimedia Analytics for Urban Computing
• Devanshu Arya: Multimedia Analytics for Forensics
• Jan Zahálka: The Machine in Multimedia Analytics (completed his thesis in 2017)