Permanent researchers
Research engineers
Pieter Gijsbers is working on making (automated) machine learning research simple through developing open source software. He is a long-term contributor to openml-python, started the AutoML Benchmark and GAMA. Pieter is currently working on improving the AI-on-Demand platform.
Taniya Das is a Research Engineer solving various engineering and machine learning tasks for openml.org and AI-on-Demand platform (an EU project), to make ML research better. She has contributed to openml-tensorflow and openml-pytorch extensions for OpenML, making it possible to use solve deep learning tasks using openml-python API. She is currently working on using LLMs to make both the platforms more intelligent.
Postdocs
Alexis Cvetkov-Iliev is a postdoc in the group, applying machine-learning techniques to study and optimize building renovation. His research interests include active learning, Bayesian optimization, and transfer learning.
PhD students
Andrei Simion-Constantinescu is a PhD Researcher in the AutoML group focused on self-supervised learning for computer vision tasks. He holds an MSc degree from TU Delft with the graduation topic on contrastive learning for unlabeled videos. His current research focuses on adapting state-of-the-art self-supervise techniques for greenhouse/vertical farm images to predict the crop growing parameters (such as fresh weight, height, diameter a.s.o).
Jiarong Pan is a PhD student in the group, working on improving sample efficiency in machine learning algorithms. His research interests include meta-learning, Bayesian optimization and multi-objective optimization.
Murat Onur Yildirim is a PhD Candidate in the AutoML group. He focuses on automatically and continually learning sparse experts for computer vision tasks. His research is dedicated to creating efficient continual learners by leveraging sparsity in networks, data, and labels.