Current position & other academic roles
- Assistant professor at Tilburg University
- Board member of SIGGEN (2021-2025)
- Member of the editorial board for the North European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT)
Previous experience
- Lecturer/researcher at Tilburg University (2018-2019)
- PhD researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2014 – 2019)
- Visiting PhD student at the university of Edinburgh (September – November 2017)
Education
- MA Linguistics (Cum Laude), Utrecht University, 2014
- BA Linguistics, Utrecht University, 2011
- BSc Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Utrecht University, 2010
Certificates
- University teaching qualification (UTQ, see here for more information)
Courses taught
| Course | Location | Year |
| Language technology and its social implications | Tilburg university | 2019,2020 |
| Language Technology and Society | Tilburg university | 2021 |
| Onderzoekspracticum 3 | Tilburg university | 2020,2021 |
| Research skill: Annotation | Tilburg university | 2019 |
| Research skill: Programming | Tilburg university | 2019 |
| Basic programming | Tilburg university | 2018, 2019, 2020 |
| Inleiding Programmeren | Tilburg university | 2021 |
| Methodology for Premasters CIS | Tilburg university | 2018, 2019 |
| Online data collection | Tilburg university | 2018, 2019 |
| Social Media Analytics | Tilburg university | 2018 |
| Introduction to Python | VU Amsterdam | 2015, 2016 |
Publications
See the publications page.
Talks etc
- Panelist at ICT.OPEN2019 discussion: “Where is YOUR moral compass in building AI systems?”
- Invited talk on Ethics in vision & language: a personal journey at the NL4XAI training event (December 1st, 2020).
- Invited talk (breakout session): What (biases) have language models learned? Ladies in Data 2022
Conference & workshop organization
- Committee member: CLIN (2010, 2015, 2022), INLG (2018, 2021, 2022)
- Workshop chair: INLG 2021
- Organizer: EvalNLGEval
Reviewing experience
I have reviewed for:
- Journals: Computer Speech & Language, TACL (standing reviewer)
- Conferences: ARR, ACL, COLING, EMNLP, INLG, NAACL, the Global WordNet Conference, CLIN
- Workshops: EvalNLGEval, Ethics in NLP, HumEval, and NLP-OSS workshops, and the ESSLLI student session.
I have also served as an area chair for INLG2020, and as an Ethics reviewer for NAACL.