Expert Practices
The landscape of energy systems is undergoing revolutionary changes driven by decarbonisation, deregulation, democratisation, and digitalisation. In this digital era, the role of AI is paramount. As the energy sector becomes more interconnected and data-driven, AI-driven technologies enable the efficient management of complex energy networks. Thanks to predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms, historical data can be analysed to accurately forecast energy demand patterns. This, in turn, facilitates proactive decision-making for grid operators and energy providers. This predictive capability is particularly crucial for the integration of renewable energy sources. Our team concentrates on using AI and energy data analytics in the context of smart cities and communities, harnessing AI for unlocking energy flexibility , optimizing electric mobility and building an AI-enabled hydrogen economy.
Trustworthy & Accountable AI
Explore organisational compliance assessments, fraud detection, and valuation of assets with audio-visual data. This lab builds on the inherent advantages of the accounting profession to provide businesses with an insight into the quality of data, algorithms and their value for the business.
AI, Digital Communication and Behavioural Change
Developments in communication technology open up unprecedented opportunities for healthy and sustainable ways of changing behaviour. We study how the benefits of digital technology can be optimally used for a healthy and sustainable lifestyle, while keeping potential risks at a minimum.
Bioinformatics
Bio informatics focusses on translational medicine by combining inter-disciplinary data and resources, as well as expertise. Molecular biology techniques require computer science expertise, information engineering, mathematics, and statistics to support the diagnostics of complex patients.
Digital Business
The exponential improvements in artificial intelligence, robotics, networks, analytics, and digitization affect more and more of the economy and society. Digital Business aims to explore how people and businesses will work, interact, and prosper in an era of profound digital transformation.
FinTech
The FinTech Expert Practice aims to promote and streamline (interdisciplinary) academic research in FinTech, align it with the needs and interests of industry, distribute knowledge to pre- and post-experience audiences, and be a knowledge centre for parties inside and outside the university.
Law & Digital Compliance
What rules and standards are needed for Big Data and AI to support us in our own needs? How to prevent these technologies from being at the expense of our society? Is the established legislation resistant to accelerated digitisation? And to how to bridge legal shortcomings by the new legislation? Digital Governance (DIGOV) brings EU awarded excellence in research.
Trial Design & Experimentation
New developments in machine learning have the potential to dramatically improve experimentation and clinical trials by making them more efficient, safe, and accessible. From a business perspective, the massive adoption of the Internet by virtually everyone made it easy to run large-scale online experiments to identify the best ways to communicate and interact with consumers.
Psychology of AI
The successful introduction of advanced analytics, whether in companies or market offerings, ultimately rests on human users’ beliefs and adoption behaviour. The Psychology of AI lab examines the impact of AI on consumption and society, decision making with data, consumer adoption of AI solutions, psychological reactions to human replacement and technological unemployment.
Smart Energy & Sustainability
Big data, analytics, blockchain, IoT and data platforms can help cities and communities become more sustainable and efficient. Energy markets are dynamic and complex, and the shifting landscape they operate in, requires a broad spectrum of knowledge combined with cutting edge research techniques and technologies using data analytics and smart tariffing.
Sustainable Global Supply Chains and Ports
Sustainable Global Supply Chains and Ports focuses on sustainable development and management of global supply chains and ports. The acquisition and sharing of data among various organizations and its use in advanced information services play a central role. Our academic activities, often with the involvement of public and private parties, include but are not limited to the application of data analytics and AI in port logistics and in sustainability efforts in global supply chains.
Retail analytics
The retail value chain has witnessed an influx of new technologies and adoption of new business models. This has led to an abundance of data sources. Converting these big retail data to actionable insights requires the use of advanced analytics in many retail decision areas such as warehousing, transport, store operations, and restaurants. The Retail Analytics Expert Practice advances research on retail analytics and engages in an ongoing dialogue with practice on this topic.
Inclusive Smart Cities & Communities
The utopian image of smart cities tackling urban problems poses a natural question: what impact will this have on democracy? Who will own the data generated by the citizens? How will this influence political decisions? While urbanization and smart cities will have positive upsides, it is imperative to understand the interactions created and their impact on diversity and democracy.
Media, AI, Privacy & Surveillance (MAPS)
Developments in new media and communication technologies have produced new opportunities and promises for a better future. Yet these also bring numerous concerns related to personal, social, political and economic life. MAPS examines these opportunities and concerns as social, political, and ethical issues connected to new media practices. The focus is on the proliferating use of AI, everyday privacy negotiations, various forms, types and means of and for surveillance, and (cyber) security contexts and challenges.
Cybersecurity
As the investments in cybersecurity will rise in the future through developments such as robotics, the ‘internet of things’ and blockchain, so will the need for a societal debate about the efficiency of those investments. The mission of CLECS: ‘Creating a stronger public discourse regarding efficient cybersecurity investments’.
Virtual & Augmented Reality
New technologies, such as VR and AR offer many opportunities and challenges for businesses, which in turn will have a lot of consequences for consumers across all stages of the customer journey. It is expected that VR and AR will entail a lot of benefits for business, for example for the development, launch and communication of new products, or in helping technicians in production processes.
Data Science Methodology
The data science field is rapidly developing with new methods and models. Our academic experts are on the forefront of these methodological developments. We work on advancing methodology without losing track of the applicability of the methods. With a large team of experts, we cover many sub-fields of data science from machine learning to text analytics and from robust statistics to optimization and high-dimensional Bayesian modelling.
Customer Analytics
The emergence of information and data technologies, together with the sophistication of tools in data analytics, have led to a radical shift in the way marketing operations are run. The focus of companies has been shifted away from product-centric approaches and mass marketing campaigns to customer-centric campaigns tailored to the needs and wants of each individual customer.
Datapreneurship
Datapreneurship explores the opportunities, antecedents, consequences, and limitations of using AI and digital tools for strategic decision making in established organizations and nascent ventures.
Advanced Analytics & AI in International Commodity Trade
The practice will focus on the use of advanced analytics and AI in commodity markets and physical supply networks. Understanding on how digital technology and innovations are impacting upon the business model of the commodity trading industry and provide leaders with decision making tools to manage these within their company.
Catholic Advanced Analytics Center
The Catholic Advanced Analytics Center (CAAC) aims to improve decision-making in the
Catholic Church through data analytics and to facilitate spiritual growth for Catholics using
new technology.
AI in Art and Digital Culture
The digital transformation in the arts and cultural sector continues to fundamentally change the creative process and the participation within cultural activities. These transformations influence society’s cultural values and reshape our future understanding of art and culture.
AI, Work and Platforms
The expert practice focusing on AI, work and platforms delves into how digital technologies, including AI and digital platforms, reshape work for different people across various job types. It particularly emphasises connectivity, digital labour, algorithmic management, and the welfare of workers.
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