{"id":10,"date":"2007-12-19T11:03:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T10:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~cgmsnoek\/index.php\/curriculum-vitae\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:20:32","slug":"curriculum-vitae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ceessnoek.info\/index.php\/curriculum-vitae\/","title":{"rendered":"CV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"cv\">\n<h2>Personal Details<\/h2>\n<h3>Name<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Prof. dr. Cees G.M. Snoek<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Office<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ivi.fnwi.uva.nl\/vislab\/\">Video &amp; Image Sense Lab<\/a><br>Informatics Institute<br>University of Amsterdam<br>Science Park 900<br>P.O. Box 94323<br>1098 GH Amsterdam<br>The Netherlands<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Contact<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>E: cgmsnoek AT uva DOT nl<br>W: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.CeesSnoek.info\">http:\/\/www.CeesSnoek.info<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<h3>Doctorate<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>January 2001 &#8211; October 2005<br>Computer Science, University of Amsterdam.<br>Title of thesis: <em>The Authoring Metaphor to Machine Understanding of Multimedia<\/em>.<br>Advisors: prof. dr. ir. Arnold W.M. Smeulders and dr. Marcel Worring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Master&#8217;s<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>September 1996 &#8211; October 2000<br>Business Information Systems, University of Amsterdam.<br>Title of thesis: <em>Camera Distance Classification: Indexing Video Shots based on Visual Features<\/em>.<br>Advisor: dr. Jeroen Vendrig.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Professional Appointments<\/h2>\n<h3>Academic Research<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>January 2018 &#8211; present<br><em>Full Professor<\/em>, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li>July 2013 &#8211; December 2017<br><em>Associate Professor<\/em>, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li>July 2011 &#8211; June 2013<br><em>Assistant Professor<\/em>, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li>August 2010 &#8211; February 2011<br><em> Fulbright Junior Scholar<\/em> at Jitendra Malik&#8217;s lab, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.<\/li>\n<li>January 2009 &#8211; December 2012<br><em> VENI research fellow<\/em>, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li>January 2005 &#8211; December 2008<br><em> Postdoctoral researcher<\/em>, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li>April-October 2003<br><em> Visiting researcher<\/em> at Informedia, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.<\/li>\n<li>January 2001 &#8211; December 2004<br><em> Doctorate research<\/em>, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Public Research Labs<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>June 2024 &#8211; present<br><em>Scientific Director<\/em>, HAVA Lab with Data Science Center.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Public-Private Research Labs<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>November 2019 &#8211; December 2025<br><em>Scientific Director<\/em>, Atlas Lab with TomTom.<\/li>\n<li>October 2019 &#8211; September 2024<br><em>Scientific Director<\/em>, AIM Lab with Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>April 2018<br><em>Co-Founder<\/em>, Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>May 2015 &#8211; present<br><em>Scientific Director<\/em>, QUVA Lab with Qualcomm Technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Industry Research<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>April 2018 &#8211; present<br><em>Chief Scientific Officer<\/em>, Kepler Vision Technologies.<\/li>\n<li>June 2016 &#8211; December 2017<br><em>Principal Engineer\/Manager<\/em>, Qualcomm Technologies.<\/li>\n<li>September 2014 &#8211; May 2016<br><em>Principal Engineer<\/em>, Qualcomm Technologies.<\/li>\n<li>July 2011 &#8211; September 2014<br><em>Head of R&amp;D<\/em>, Euvision Technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Research Management<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>September 2022- present<br><em>Scientific Director Amsterdam AI.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>May 2022 &#8211; November 2024<br><em>Director ELLIS Amsterdam Unit.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>October 2021 &#8211; present<br><em>Director ELLIS Research Program on Multimodal Learning Systems.<\/em><\/li>\n\n<li>October 2021 &#8211; September 2024<br><em>Member University Committee on Research (UOC), <\/em>University of Amsterdam.<\/li>\n<li>June 2019 &#8211; May 2024<br><em>Management Team<\/em>, Advanced School for Computing and Imaging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Education Management<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>June 2018 &#8211; May 2022<br><em>Director Master Artificial Intelligence<\/em>, University of Amsterdam.<\/li>\n<li>April 2018 &#8211; April 2019<br><em>Coordinator Honours Program Bachelor Artificial Intelligence,<\/em> University of Amsterdam.<\/li>\n<li>March 2014 &#8211; September 2014<br><em>Member Examinations Board Information Studies<\/em>, University of Amsterdam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Infrastructure Management<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>March 2026 &#8211; present<br><em>Member of the Supervisory Board<\/em>, Netherlands AI Factory.<\/li>\n<li>October 2012 &#8211; December 2023<br><em>Member of the Steering Committee<\/em>, Distributed ASCI Supercomputer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2>Professional Service<\/h2>\n<h3>Associate Editorship<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2024-2020<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2023-2020<\/li>\n<li>Computer Vision and Image Understanding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2019-2017<\/li>\n<li>ACM Transactions on Multimedia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2016<\/li>\n<li>ACM Transactions on Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>IEEE MultiMedia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2015-2012<\/li>\n<li>IEEE MultiMedia<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Transactions on Multimedia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2011<\/li>\n<li>IEEE MultiMedia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Organization<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2028<\/li>\n<li>General Co-Chair, Asian Conference on Computer Vision.<\/li>\n<li>Program Chair, European Conference on Computer Vision.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2027<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2026<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, International Conference on Learning Representations.<\/li>\n<li>ELLIS Units Selection Committee.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, <a href=\"https:\/\/ivi.fnwi.uva.nl\/ellis\/events\/winter-school-on-foundation-models-fomo-2026-registration-opens-on-14-november-2025\/\">ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2025<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, <a href=\"https:\/\/ivi.fnwi.uva.nl\/ellis\/events\/2025-ellis-winter-school-on-foundation-models-fomo\/\">ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2024<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, <a href=\"https:\/\/amsterdam-fomo.github.io\">ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, ELLIS Multimodal Learning Systems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceessnoek.info\/multimodal-fomo\/\">Workshop on Multimodal Foundation Models<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2023<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, International Conference on Computer Vision.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.<\/li>\n<li>Organizer, Label-Efficient Machine Perception Symposium.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2022<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/videosymposium2022\/homepage\">Video Understanding Symposium<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Program Coordinator, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, European Conference on Computer Vision.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2021<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, International Conference on Computer Vision.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2020<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, European Conference on Computer Vision.<\/li>\n<li>Brave New Ideas Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, CVPR Workshop on ActivityNet<\/li>\n<li>Track Chair, International Conference on Pattern Recognition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2019<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, International Conference on Computer Vision.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, British Machine Vision Conference.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, CVPR Workshop on ActivityNet.<\/li>\n<li>Program Chair:&nbsp;International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing.<\/li>\n<li>Tutorial Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2018<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, British Machine Vision Conference.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, CVPR Workshop on ActivityNet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2017<\/li>\n<li>Program Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, CVPR Workshop on ActivityNet.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, British Machine Vision Conference.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, International Conference on Computer Vision.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2016<\/li>\n<li>General Co-Chair, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acmmm.org\/2016\/\">ACM International Conference on Multimedia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, CVPR Workshop on ActivityNet.<\/li>\n<li>Demo Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2015<\/li>\n<li>Program Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.<\/li>\n<li>Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2014<\/li>\n<li>General Co-Chair, Netherlands Conference on Computer Vision.<\/li>\n<li>Program Co-Chair, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia.<\/li>\n<li>Tutorial Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia &amp; Expo.<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2013<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia &amp; Expo.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, IST\/SPIE (Electronic Imaging), Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems.<\/li>\n<li>Program Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Services.<\/li>\n<li>Demo Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2012<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, Video Browser Showdown at International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, Special session on Socio-Video Semantics, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, IST\/SPIE (Electronic Imaging), Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, Workshop on Web-scale Vision and Social Media at European Conference on Computer Vision.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, Workshop on Socially-Aware Multimedia at ACM International Conference on Multimedia.<\/li>\n<li>Guest-editor, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, special issue on Learning from Multiple Evidences for Large Scale Multimedia Analysis.<\/li>\n<li>Demo Chair, International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling.<\/li>\n<li>Demo Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2011<\/li>\n<li>Area Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, IST\/SPIE (Electronic Imaging), Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems.<\/li>\n<li>Demo Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2010<\/li>\n<li>Program Co-Chair, International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Chair, Multimedia Grand Challenge at ACM Multimedia.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining at ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, IST\/SPIE (Electronic Imaging), Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2009<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, VideOlympics Video Retrieval Showcase Event at ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, Workshop on Internet Multimedia Mining at IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.<\/li>\n<li>Publicity Chair, ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2008<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, VideOlympics Video Retrieval Showcase Event at ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, Special session on Challenges in Interactive Video Search, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2007<\/li>\n<li>Co-Organizer, VideOlympics Video Retrieval Showcase Event at ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval.<\/li>\n<li>Local Chair, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Program Committee Member<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2026<\/li>\n<li>European Conference on Computer Vision<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Machine Learning<\/li> \n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2025<\/li>\n<li>Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems<\/li>\n<li>IEEE\/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Learning Representations<\/li> \n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2024<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2023<\/li>\n<li>Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2022<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2021<\/li>\n<li>Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2020<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<li>Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems<\/li>\n<li>British Machine Vision Conference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2019<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2018<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<li>European Conference on Computer Vision<\/li>\n<li>ACM International Conference on Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval<\/li>\n<li>Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2017<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2016<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<li>Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2015<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<li>International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2014<\/li>\n<li>European Conference on Computer Vision<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<li>CVPR Workshop on Web-scale Vision and Social Media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2013<\/li>\n<li>ACM International Conference on Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<li>International MultiMedia Modeling Conference<\/li>\n<li>ACM SIGIR Conference<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing<\/li>\n<li>Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>CVPR Workshop on Language for Vision<\/li>\n<li>ICCV Workshop on Action Recognition with Large Number of Classes<\/li>\n<li>ICCV Workshop on Large-Scale Video Search and Mining<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2012<\/li>\n<li>European Conference on Computer Vision<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering<\/li>\n<li>International MultiMedia Modeling Conference<\/li>\n<li>International Workshop on Large-Scale Video Search and Mining<\/li>\n<li>International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services<\/li>\n<li>Workshop on Social Media Applications in News and Entertainment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2011<\/li>\n<li>ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Multimedia &amp; Expo<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering<\/li>\n<li>International ACM Workshop on Social Media<\/li>\n<li>International MultiMedia Modeling Conference<\/li>\n<li>International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing<\/li>\n<li>Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>Dutch ICT.open conference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2010<\/li>\n<li>ACM International Conference on Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval<\/li>\n<li>ACM SIGIR Conference<\/li>\n<li>European Conference on Computer Vision<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Image Processing<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<li>International MultiMedia Modeling Conference<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing<\/li>\n<li>SIGMM Workshop on Social Media<\/li>\n<li>Workshop on Very-Large-Scale Multimedia Corpus, Mining and Retrieval<\/li>\n<li>Dutch Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2009<\/li>\n<li>ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service<\/li>\n<li>ACM International Conference on Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval<\/li>\n<li>ACM SIGIR Conference<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Image Processing<\/li>\n<li>International MultiMedia Modeling Conference<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Digital Information Management<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Semantic And digital Media Technologies<\/li>\n<li>SIGMM Workshop on Social Media<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Workshop on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems and Applications<\/li>\n<li>IJCAI Workshop on Cross-Media Information Access and Mining<\/li>\n<li>IADIS International Conference on Visual Communication<\/li>\n<li>Dutch Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2008<\/li>\n<li>ACM International Conference on Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Image Processing<\/li>\n<li>International MultiMedia Modeling Conference<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Semantic And digital Media Technologies<\/li>\n<li>IADIS International Conference on Visual Communication<\/li>\n<li>Visual Information Processing Workshop<\/li>\n<li>Dutch Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2007<\/li>\n<li>ACM International Conference on Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>International MultiMedia Modeling Conference<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Workshop on Motion &amp; Video Computing<\/li>\n<li>Belgian-Dutch Benelearn Conference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2006<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Multimedia &amp; Expo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"year\">2005<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Multimedia &amp; Expo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Reviewer International Journals<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>ACM Computing Surveys<\/li>\n<li>ACM Transactions on Information Systems<\/li>\n<li>ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology<\/li>\n<li>ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications<\/li>\n<li>Applied Ontology<\/li>\n<li>Artificial Intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Computer Vision and Image Understanding<\/li>\n<li>EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Computer<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Intelligent Systems<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Pervasive Computing<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Signal Processing Letters<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Transactions on Image Processing<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Transactions on Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Image and Vision Computing<\/li>\n<li>Information Retrieval<\/li>\n<li>Information Sciences<\/li>\n<li>International Journal of Computer Vision<\/li>\n<li>International Journal of Systems Science<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Electronic Imaging<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Web Semantics<\/li>\n<li>Machine Vision and Applications<\/li>\n<li>Multimedia Systems<\/li>\n<li>Multimedia Tools and Applications<\/li>\n<li>Pattern Recognition<\/li>\n<li>Pattern Recognition Letters<\/li>\n<li>Proceedings of the IEEE<\/li>\n<li>Signal, Image and Video Processing<\/li>\n<li>Signal Processing<\/li>\n<li>The Computer Journal<\/li>\n<li>The Visual Computer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Proposal and Project Reviewer<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>ERC Starting Grant 2024<\/li>\n<li>ERC Consolidator Grant 2019<\/li>\n<li>NWO TTW Vidi 2017 committee<\/li>\n<li>ERC Consolidator Grant 2017<\/li>\n<li>STW Vidi 2016 committee<\/li>\n<li>NWO TOP 2016 committee<\/li>\n<li>ERC Starting Grant 2016<\/li>\n<li>ERC Consolidator Grant 2015<\/li>\n<li>STW Veni 2015 committee<\/li>\n<li>European Commission &#8211; FP7 project review<\/li>\n<li>Czech Science Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology<\/li>\n<li>Qatar National Research Fund<\/li>\n<li>The Austrian Science Fund<\/li>\n<li>Fulbright Graduate Student Scholarships 2014 committee<\/li>\n<li>Fulbright Graduate Student Scholarships 2013 committee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Professional Memberships<\/h2>\n<h3>International<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>ACM: Association for Computing Machinery, Senior Member<\/li>\n<li>ACM SIGMM: ACM Special Interest Group Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>ELLIS: European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems, Fellow.<\/li>\n<li>IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Senior Member<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>National<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>ASCI: Advanced School for Computing and Imaging<\/li>\n<li>NVPHBV: Dutch Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Educational Activities<\/h2>\n<h3>International Professional Tutorials<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Unseen Video Understanding. IPM, Iran, 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Unseen Video Understanding.&nbsp;Large Scale Holistic Video Understanding Tutorial @ CVPR, 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Activity Understanding,&nbsp;International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Application, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-nlpir.nist.gov\/projects\/eccv2018\/index.html\">Video Recognition and Retrieval at the TRECVID Benchmark<\/a>, European Conference on Computer Vision, 2018.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.micc.unifi.it\/tagsurvey\/\">Image Tag Assignment, Refinement and Retrieval<\/a>, ICIAP, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Zero-shot learning for computer vision, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2017.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www-nlpir.nist.gov\/projects\/trecvid\/tv.resources.html\">Video Indexing, Search, Detection, and Description with Focus on TRECVID<\/a>, International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2017.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/t.e.j.mensink\/zsl2016\/\">Zero-shot learning for vision and multimedia<\/a>, European Conference on Computer Vision, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.micc.unifi.it\/tagsurvey\/\">Image Tag Assignment, Refinement and Retrieval<\/a>, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Basics of Neural Networks, Deep Learning Summer School on Integrating Vision and Language, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.micc.unifi.it\/tagsurvey\/\">Image Tag Assignment, Refinement and Retrieval<\/a>, ACM Multimedia, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/svg.dmi.unict.it\/icvss2015\/\">What happens where in video?<\/a>, International Computer Vision Summer School, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eccv2012.unifi.it\/program\/tutorials\/internet-video-search\/\">Internet Video Search<\/a>, European Conference on Computer Vision, 2012.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acmmm11.org\/content-internet-video-search.html\">Internet Video Search<\/a>, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Video Search Engines, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Video Search Engines, Summer School on Multimedia Semantics, 2010.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~cgmsnoek\/pub\/slides\/CVPR-2010-Snoek-Smeulders-VideoSearch-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video Search Engines<\/a>, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Interactive Video Retrieval, AERFAI Summer School on Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning in Multimedia Systems, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Video Search Engines, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Tunisia, 2009.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~cgmsnoek\/pub\/slides\/ICCV-2009-Snoek-Gevers-Smeulders-ColoringVisualSearch-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coloring Visual Search<\/a>, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Video Analysis and Retrieval, International Summer School on Multimedia Semantics, 2009.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~cgmsnoek\/pub\/slides\/CVPR-2009-Snoek-Smeulders-VideoSearch-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video Search Engines<\/a>, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Concept-based Video Retrieval, Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Semantic Indexing and Retrieval of Video, IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Concept-based Video Retrieval, Summer School on Image Processing, 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Semantic Indexing and Retrieval of Video, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia &amp; Expo, 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Semantic Indexing and Retrieval of Video, Swiss School of the 3eme cycle romand in Informatics, 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Concept-based Video Indexing and Retrieval, International Summer School on Multimedia Semantics Analysis, Annotation, Retrieval and Applications, 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Semantic Indexing and Retrieval of Video, International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Semantic Indexing and Retrieval of Video, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2006.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>University Courses<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uvafomo.github.io\">Foundation Models<\/a>. University of Amsterdam, 2026.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uvafomo.github.io\">Foundation Models<\/a>. University of Amsterdam, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uva.nl\/en\/programmes\/professionals\/ai-foundation-models\/ai-foundation-models.html\">AI Foundation Models<\/a>. University of Amsterdam, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computervisionbylearning.info\">Computer Vision by Learning<\/a>. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uvafomo.github.io\">Foundation Models<\/a>. University of Amsterdam, 2024.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computervisionbylearning.info\">Computer Vision by Learning<\/a>. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2022.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computervisionbylearning.info\">Computer Vision by Learning<\/a>. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computervisionbylearning.info\">Computer Vision by Learning<\/a>. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Advanced Topics in Computer Vision. University of Amsterdam, 2014.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computervisionbylearning.info\">Computer Vision by Learning<\/a>. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Visual Search Engines. University of Amsterdam, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Multimedia Information Systems. University of Amsterdam, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Multimedia Retrieval. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Text Mining and Collective Intelligence. Amsterdam University College, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Visual Search Engines. University of California at Berkeley, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Text Mining for Business Applications. University of Amsterdam, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Intelligent Multimedia Systems. University of Amsterdam, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Personalized Information Delivery. University of Amsterdam, 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Multimedia Retrieval. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Personalized Information Delivery. University of Amsterdam, 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Personalized Information Delivery. University of Amsterdam, 2006.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<h3>Research Staff Supervision<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yukimasano.github.io\">Yuki Asano<\/a>, 2020-2024<br><em>Yuki is currently a Full Professor at University of Technology Nuremberg<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Xiantong Zhen, 2020-2022<br><em>Xiantong is currently at United Imaging, China<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/irisgroen\/team\">Iris Groen<\/a>, 2020-present<br><em>Iris is currently an Associate Professor with tenure at University of Amsterdam and recipient of an NWO VENI and VIDI Grant.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/p.s.m.mettes\">Pascal Mettes<\/a>, 2019-present<br><em>Pascal is currently an Assistant Professor with tenure at University of Amsterdam and recipient of an NWO VIDI Grant.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.egavves.com\">Efstratios Gavves<\/a>, 2018-present<br><em>Stratis is currently an Associate Professor with tenure at University of Amsterdam and recipient of an NWO VIDI and ERC Starting Grant.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<h3>Post-Doctoral Supervision<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yingjundu.github.io\">Yingjun Du<\/a>, 2024-2026<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mmderakhshani.github.io\">Mohammad Mehdi Derakhshani<\/a>, 2024-2026<br><em>Mohammad is currently at New Theory, Netherlands<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hazeldoughty.github.io\">Hazel Doughty<\/a>, 2020-2023<br><em>Hazel was awarded an NWO VENI in 2023 and is currently an Assistant Professor at Leiden University<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aghodrati.github.io\">Amir Ghodrati<\/a>, 2017-2019<br><em>Amir is currently at Qualcomm AI Research, Netherlands<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/p.s.m.mettes\">Pascal Mettes<\/a>, 2017-2019<br><em>Pascal is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/zhenyangli.github.io\">Zhenyang Li<\/a>, 2016-2018<br><em>Zhenyang is currently at Baidu, China<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/t.e.j.mensink\/\">Thomas Mensink<\/a>, 2013-2016<br><em>Thomas was awarded an NWO VENI in 2015 and is currently at Google DeepMind, Netherlands<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/m.jain\/\">Mihir Jain<\/a>, 2014-2016<br><em>Mihir is currently at Meta Reality Labs,&nbsp;Switzerland<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jvgemert.github.io\">Jan van Gemert<\/a>, 2013-2015<br><em>Jan is currently an Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/koen.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Koen E.A. van de Sande<\/a>, 2011-2014.<br><em>Koen is currently at Kepler Vision Technologies, Netherlands<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Xirong's website\" href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~xirong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xirong Li<\/a>, 2011-2012.<br><em>Xirong is currently a Full Professor at Renmin University of China<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Ph.D. Thesis Supervision<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Walter Simoncini, 2026-2030.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wenfangsun.cn\">Wenfang Sun<\/a>, 2025-2029.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dhevarghese.github.io\">Dheeraj Varghese<\/a>, 2025-2029.<\/li>\n<li>Ruthu Hulikal Rooparaghunath, 2024-2028.<\/li>\n<li>Ana Manzano, 2024-2028.<\/li>\n<li>Marten Steketee, 2024-2028.<\/li>\n<li>Dasha Simons, 2024-2028.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ddgoede.github.io\">Danilo de Goede<\/a>, 2023-2027.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mdorkenwald.com\">Michael Dorkenwald<\/a>, 2022-2026.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/smsd75.github.io\">Mohammadreza Salehi<\/a>, 2021-2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mmderakhshani.github.io\">Mohammad Mehdi Derakhshani<\/a>, 2020-2024.<br><em>Mohammad is currently at New Theory, Netherlands.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Aritra Bhowmik, 2020-2024.<br><em>Aritra is currently at Qualcomm AI Research.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sarahrastegar.github.io\">Sarah Rastegar<\/a>, Unveiling the Unknown: Learning and Generalizing Beyond Predefined Visual Boundaries, 2020-2024.<br><em>Sarah is currently a postdoc at Delft University of Technology.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Duy-Kien Nguyen, <a href=\"https:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/search?identifier=cf6c257f-56f3-4bf7-a817-2c74ae25acd0\">On Inductive Biases in Vision Transformers<\/a>, 2020-2024. <br><em>Kien is currently at Google DeepMind&#8217;s Isomorphic Labs, UK.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Yingjun's website\" href=\"https:\/\/yingjundu.github.io\">Yingjun Du<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/search?identifier=88ac187d-ac2a-4e01-bd91-bbc777c6556d\">Learning to Learn with Less and Less<\/a>, 2020-2024.<br><em>Yingjun is currently a postdoc at University of Amsterdam.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Zehao's website\" href=\"https:\/\/zzzx1224.github.io\/\">Zehao Xiao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/search?identifier=a165fad4-684a-4767-9e55-1caa83e59f59\">Learning to Generalize at Test Time<\/a>, 2020-2024. <br><em>Zehao is currently at Huawei, France.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/xiaobai1217.github.io\">Yunhua Zhang<\/a>, Multimodal Learning Under Visually Challenging Conditions, 2019-2023.<br><em>Yunhua is currently at World Labs, USA.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Fida's website\" href=\"https:\/\/fmthoker.github.io\">Fida Mohammad Thoker<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/11245.1\/89efbea4-62f5-426f-8208-5ba91948ecf4\">Video-Efficient Foundation Models<\/a>, 2019-2023. <br><em>Fida is currently a postdoc at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"David's website\" href=\"https:\/\/davzha.netlify.app\">David Zhang<\/a>, Learning to Output Sets, 2019-2023. <br><em>David is currently at FAIR Paris, France.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Shuo's website\" href=\"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/s.chen3\/\">Shuo Chen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/search?identifier=65e4a47c-fd77-4176-9f09-b3bd0bf79d04\">Machine Perception of Interactivity in Video<\/a>, 2018-2022.<br><em>Shuo is currently at Huawei, Singapore.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Tao's website\" href=\"http:\/\/taohu.me\/\">Tao Hu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/search?identifier=6283d544-00b1-49bd-bd13-cfa2f9109b6f\">Label-Efficient Learning to See<\/a>, 2018-2022.<br><em>Tao is currently a Full Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Kirill's website\" href=\"https:\/\/kgavrilyuk.github.io\">Kirill Gavrilyuk<\/a>, 2015-2019.<br><em>Kirill is currently at Sportlogiq, Canada.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/w.e.thong\/\">William Thong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/search?identifier=4f084026-9a5e-490e-b8c5-d6ee5382b3da\">Learning Visual Similarities Robust to Bias<\/a>, 2016-2020.<br><em>William is currently at Apple, Switzerland<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Zhenglin's website\" href=\"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/z.shi\/\">Zenglin Shi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/search?identifier=9d38d6f1-5a68-421e-a50d-abd243398623\">Inductive Biases for Pixel Representation Learning<\/a>, 2018-2022.<br><em>Zenglin is currently a Full Professor at Hefei University of Technology, China.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"JJ's website\" href=\"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/j.zhao3\/\">Jiaojiao Zhao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/search?identifier=115b12bc-27f0-4e28-b2b1-81dbb6b06506\">Learning Continuity for Image and Video Recognition<\/a>, 2017-2021. <br><em>Jiaojiao is currently at Amazon, USA.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leoshine.github.io\">Shuai Liao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/search?identifier=1b3cb7ba-d2dd-4297-a0de-d2be3f0758b2\">Deep Learning with 3D and Label Geometry,<\/a> 2015-2019.<br><em>Shuai is currently at Amazon, USA.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Tom's website\" href=\"http:\/\/tomrunia.github.io\">Tom Runia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/11245.1\/2a0597e2-cd99-4c44-9a8a-2575f8aebd53\">Recurrent Motion in Vision<\/a>, 2016-2020.<br><em>Tom is currently at Apple, Switzerland<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Spencer's website\" href=\"https:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/s.h.cappallo\/\">Spencer Cappallo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/11245.1\/d67f64ef-a593-46e8-b4bc-439452ae390c\">Predicting Visual Trends<\/a>, 2013-2017.<br><em>Spencer is currently at Replicant, Canada<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Pascal's website\" href=\"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/p.s.m.mettes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pascal Mettes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/11245.1\/d27fd9d1-095b-418d-9c1d-263afd1da3e1\">Objects for Spatio-Temporal Activity Recognition in Videos<\/a>, 2013-2017.<br><em>Pascal is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Zhenyang's website\" href=\"https:\/\/zhenyangli.github.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zhenyang Li<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pure.uva.nl\/ws\/files\/19469497\/Thesis.pdf\">Exploring Locality for Visual Recognition<\/a>, 2012-2016.<br><em>Zhenyang is currently at Baidu, China<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Svetlana's website\" href=\"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/s.kordumova\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Svetlana Kordumova<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/11245\/1.542506\">Learning to Search for Images without Annotations<\/a>, 2011-2015. <br><em>Lana is founding CEO of Pixyle.ai and an Assistant Professor at Goce Del\u010dev University of \u0160tip<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Amir's website\" href=\"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/a.habibian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amirhossein Habibian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/record\/1\/540787\">Storytelling Machines for Video Search<\/a>, 2011-2015.<br><em>Amir is currently at Qualcomm AI Research, Netherlands<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Masoud's website\" href=\"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/m.mazloom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Masoud Mazloom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/11245\/1.540788\">In Search of Video Event Semantics<\/a>, 2011-2015.<br><em>Masoud is currently at ABN-AMRO, Netherlands<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Efstratios' website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.egavves.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Efstratios Gavves<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/record\/1\/430219\">Nuances in Visual Recognition<\/a>, 2008-2012.<br><i>Stratis is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam and recipient of an <\/i><i>NWO VIDI <\/i>and&nbsp;<i>ERC&nbsp;Starting Grant.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Xirong's website\" href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~xirong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xirong Li<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/en\/record\/410580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Content-Based Visual Search Learned from Social Media<\/a>, 2007-2011.<br>Xirong is recipient of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmm.org\/news\/best_thesis_award_2013\">SIGMM Best Ph.D. Thesis Award 2013<\/a>.<br><em>Xirong is currently a Full Professor at Renmin University of China<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>International Visitors<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Francesco Tonini, University of Trento, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Ziling Huang, University of Tokyo, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Huabin Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Aozhu Chen, Renmin University of China, 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Mengmeng Jing, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Stefan Pollok, Technical University of Denmark, 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Pengwan Yang, Peking University, 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Teng Long, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Federico Landi, Universit\u00e0 di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2018.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mihir's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irisa.fr\/texmex\/people\/jain\/index_en.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mihir Jain<\/a>, Inria, France, 2013.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Yu-Gang's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yugangjiang.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yu-Gang Jiang<\/a>, Fudan University, China, 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Industry Interns<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Victor's website\" href=\"http:\/\/escorciav.github.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Escorcia<\/a>, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, 2017.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Joe's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.umiacs.umd.edu\/~yhng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Yue-Hei Ng<\/a>, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Eren's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.erengolge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eren Golge<\/a>, Bilkent University, Turkey, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Member of the Ph.D. Committee<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Mina Ghadimi Atigh, University of Amsterdam, 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Thiviyan Thanapalasingam, University of Amsterdam, 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Aritra Bhowmik, University of Amsterdam, 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani, University of Amsterdam, 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Tejaswi Kasarla, University of Amsterdam, 2026.<\/li>\n<li>David Zhang, Learning to Output Sets, University of Amsterdam, 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Clemens G. Bartnik, Vision for Action: Locomotive Affordance Perception in Brains, Behavior, and Machines, University of Amsterdam, 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Floris Gisolf, Pixels Become Insight: Efficient Investigation of Complex Image Collections, University of Amsterdam, September 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Robert-Jan Bruintjes, Delft University of Technology, June 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Rastegar, Unveiling the Unknown: Learning and Generalizing Beyond Predefined Boundaries, University of Amsterdam, May 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Philipp Hager, Advancing Neural Click Models for Unbiased Learning-to-Rank, University of Amsterdam, April 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Tim Alpherts, Explainable Computer Vision for Cities, University of Amsterdam, April 2026.<\/li>\n<li>George Yiasemis, What We Do Sample, We Must Learn to Reconstruct, University of Amsterdam, April 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Muhammad Maaz, Towards General-Purpose Video Understanding and Reasoning via Multimodal Models, MBZUAI, February 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Duy-Kien Nguyen, On Inductive Biases in Vision Transformers, University of Amsterdam, February 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Weijie Wei, Representation Learning for Sparse Point Cloud Perception, University of Amsterdam, February 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Anna Kuzina, Mapping the Invisible: Insights into Deep Latent Variable Generative Models, Vrije Universiteit, January 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Amber Brands, Temporal Adaptation during Visual Processing. Insights from Humans and Vision Models, University of Amsterdam, December 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Ivona Najdenkoska, Learning from context with multimodal foundation models, University of Amsterdam, November 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Yingjun Du, Learning to Learn with Less and Less, University of Amsterdam, November 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Shashank Gupta, Safe, Efficient, and Robust Reinforcement Learning Methods for Ranking and Diffusion Models, University of Amsterdam, October 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Heiko Zimmerman, Variational Inference for Probabilistic Programming and Generative Modeling, University of Amsterdam, September 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Mattia Soldan, Towards Scalable and Efficient Semantic Video Search. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, July 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Zehao Xiao, Learning to Generalize at Test Time, University of Amsterdam, June 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Matthias Brucklacher, Representation Learning with Generative Neural Networks: A Biological Perspective, University of Amsterdam, April 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Mayug Maniparambil, Aligning Vision and Language: Harnessing Language Semantics for Efficient Vision Models, Dublin City University, March 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Tom van Sonsbeek, Combining Images and Text for Improved Medical Image Understanding, University of Amsterdam, March 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Phillip Lippe, Learning Causal Representations in Spatio-Temporal Systems. University of Amsterdam, February 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Coen de Vente, Towards robust deep learning for medical imaging: Applications in Ophthalmology and Radiology, University of Amsterdam, January, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Yunhua Zhang, Multimodal Learning Under Visually Challenging Conditions, University of Amsterdam, November 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Jia-Hong Huang, Personalized Video Summarization using Text-Based Queries and Conditional Modeling, University of Amsterdam, October 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Jiayi Shen, Mitigating Bias in Multi-Task Learning, University of Amsterdam, October 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Sander Klomp, Privacy-Preserving Advances in Convolutional Neural Networks for Defense and Safety, Eindhoven University of Technology, July 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Maurits Bleeker, Multi-modal Learning Algorithms for Sequence Modelling and Representation Learning, University of Amsterdam, June 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Daan de Geus, Advances in Scene Understanding, Eindhoven University of Technology, April 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Artem Moskalev, Representation Learning with Structured Invariance , University of Amsterdam, March 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Mohsen Fayyaz, Holistic Video Understanding: Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Efficiency, University of Bonn, March 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Elisabeth Rumetshofer, Deep Representation Learning from Weakly Labeled Data, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, January 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Fida Mohammad Thoker, Video-Efficient Foundation Models, University of Amsterdam, December 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Ali Vardasbi, Re-Examining Assumptions in Fair and Unbiased Learning to Rank, University of Amsterdam, December 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Mingrui Lao, Exploring Deep Learning for Multimodal Understanding, Leiden University, November 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Adeel Pervez, Structural Constraints in Neural Network Representations, University of Amsterdam, November 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Rick Groenendijk, Going into Depth: Learning Morphological Aspects in Data Modalities using Neural Networks, University of Amsterdam, October 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Jorg Sander, Assessing anatomy and function of the heart using 4D cardiac MRI and deep learning, University of Amsterdam, October 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Shreyank Gowda, Resource Efficient Action Recognition: Towards Data and Memory Efficiency, University of Edinburgh, September 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Roei Herzig, Towards Compositionality in Computer Vision, Tel-Aviv University, 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Shuo Chen, Machine Perception of Interactivity in Video, University of Amsterdam, 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Tao Hu, Label-Efficient Learning to See, University of Amsterdam, July 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Contributions to the Design and Training of Transformers in Computer Vision, Paris Sciences et Lettres University, July 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Yunlu Chen, Continuity in 3D Visual Learning, University of Amsterdam, July 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Ivan Sosnovik, Symmetry-Based Learning From Limited Data, University of Amsterdam, June 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Partha Das, Photometric Invariance for Intrinsic Image Decomposition, University of Amsterdam, April 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Patrick Putzky, Amortized Inference in Inverse problems. University of Amsterdam, March 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Riaan Zoetmulder, Deep-Learning-Based Image Segmentation for Uncommon Ischemic Stroke: From Infants to Adults, University of Amsterdam, February 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Sadaf Gulshad, Explainable Robustness for Visual Classification, University of Amsterdam, December 2022<\/li>\n<li>Mert K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7kaya, Contextual understanding in Human-Object Interactions, University of Amsterdam, November 2022.<\/li>\n<li>William Thong, Learning Visual Similarities Robust to Bias, University of Amsterdam, September 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Devanshu Arya, Multimodal Deep Learning on Hypergraphs, University of Amsterdam, June 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Zenglin Shi, Inductive Biases for Pixel Representation Learning, University of Amsterdam, April 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Jiaojiao Zhao, Learning Continuity for Image and Video Recognition, University of Amsterdam, April 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Cheng Li, Real-time video-based infant discomfort detection and monitoring for GERD diagnosis, Eindhoven University of Technology, March 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Ali Diba, Large-Scale Video Understanding, KU Leuven, February 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Osman Semih Kayhan,&nbsp;Locality in Space and Time for Data-Efficient Visual Recognition, Delft University of Technology, February 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Alexandros Stergiou, Efficient Modelling Across Time of Human Actions and Interactions, Utrecht University, September 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Shuai Liao, Deep Learning with 3D and Label Geometry, University of Amsterdam, September 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Berkay Kicanaoglu, Deep Representations of Structures in the 3D-World, University of Amsterdam, September 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Yue Sun, Video-based Infant Discomfort Detection, Eindhoven University of Technology, July 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Georgios Kapidis, A Modular Approach for the Detection and Interconnection&nbsp;of Objects, Hands, Locations, and Actions for Egocentric&nbsp;Video Understanding, Utrecht University, June 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Ho\u00e0ng \u00c2n L\u00ea, Outdoor Image Understanding from Multiple Vision Modalities, University of Amsterdam, May 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Noortje Seijdel, Object Recognition Put in Context, University of Amsterdam, April 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Runia, Recurrent Motion in Vision, University of Amsterdam, April 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Noureldien Hussein, Aspects of Time for Recognizing Human Activities, University of Amsterdam, April 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Wendy Shang, Crafting Deep Learning Models for Reinforcement Learning and Computer Vision Applications, University of Amsterdam, January 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Harrie Oosterhuis, Learning from User Interactions with Rankings,&nbsp;University of Amsterdam, November 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Dan Li, Effective Collection Construction for IR Evaluation and Optimization,&nbsp;University of Amsterdam, November 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Praveen Dakwale,&nbsp;Exploring Strategies for Effective Utilization of Training Data for Machine Translation, University of Amsterdam, October 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Peter O&#8217;Connor, Biologically Plausible Deep Learning, University of Amsterdam, September 2020.<\/li>\n<li>David Semedo, Bridging Vision and Language over Time with&nbsp;Neural Cross-modal Embeddings,&nbsp;NOVA University of Lisbon, July 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Nuno Cruz Garcia, Learning with Privileged Information using Multimodal Data, Universit\u0012a di Genova, November 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Davide Moltisanti, On the Impact of Action Boundaries for Video Recognition, University of Bristol, November 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Jun Xiao,&nbsp;Improving Application Timing Predictability and Caching Performance on Multi-core Systems,&nbsp;University of Amsterdam, October 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Kyriacos Shiarlis, Detaching the strings: Practical&nbsp;algorithms for Learning from&nbsp;Demonstration, University of Amsterdam, September 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Fabian Caba, Understanding Human Activities at Large Scale. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, March 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Guilhem Ch\u00e9ron, Structured modeling and recognition of human actions in video. \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure de Paris\/Inria, December 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Riste Gligorov, Serious Games in Audio-Visual Collections. Vrije University Amsterdam, November 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Fabian Flohr, Vulnerable Road User Detection and Orientation Estimation&nbsp;for Context-Aware Automated Driving, University of Amsterdam, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Spencer Cappallo, Predicting Visual Trends, University of Amsterdam, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Joern Jacobsen, Structured Convolutional Networks. University of Amsterdam, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Wenjie Pei, Models for Supervised Learning on Sequence Data. Delft University of Technology, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Maaike de Boer, Semantic Mapping in Video Retrieval. Radboud University Nijmegen, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Alessio Bazzica, Music Information Retrieval beyond Audio. Delft University of Technology, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Zhenyang Li, Exploring Locality for Visual Recognition. University of Amsterdam, December 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Pascal Mettes, Objects for Spatio-Temporal Activity Recognition in Videos. University of Amsterdam, December 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Maurice Peemen, Improving the Efficiency of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Eindhoven University of Technology, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Ork de Rooij, Interactive Content-Based Visualizations for Multimedia Search. University of Amsterdam, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Jan Zah\u00e1lka, The Machine in Mulimedia Analytics. University of Amsterdam, July 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Ali Sharif Razavian, Convolutional Network Representation for Visual Recognition. Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), January 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Ran Tao, Visual Instance Search from One Example. University of Amsterdam, January 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Silvia-Laura Pintea, Continuous Learning in Computer Vision. University of Amsterdam, January 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Sezer Karaoglu. Recognition and Detection of Objects Using Visual and Textual Cues. University of Amsterdam, December 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Svetlana Kordumova, Learning to Search for Images without Annotations. University of Amsterdam, November 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Amirhossein Habibian, Storytelling Machines for Video Search. University of Amsterdam, September 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Masoud Mazloom, In Search of Video Event Semantics. University of Amsterdam, September 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Daan Odijk, Context &amp; Semantics in News &amp; Web Search. University of Amsterdam, June 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Fares Alnajar, Automatic Age and Gaze Estimation under Uncontrolled Conditions. University of Amsterdam, January 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Andrej Mikulik, Large-Scale Content-Based Sub-Image Search. Czech Technical University in Prague, July 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Dan Oneata, Robust and efficient models for action recognition and localization. Universite de Grenoble\/Inria, July 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Ben van Werkhoven, Scientifi\fc Supercomputing with Graphics Processing Units, VU University Amsterdam, October 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Efstratios Gavves, Nuances in Visual Recognition, University of Amsterdam, September 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Zhigang Ma, From Concepts to Events: A Progressive Process for Multimedia Content Analysis, University of Trento, December 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Stevan Rudinac, Advancing the Relevance Criteria for Video Search and Visual Summarization, Delft University of Technology, May 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Simon Carter, Exploration and Exploitation of Multilingual Data for Statistical Machine Translation, University of Amsterdam, December 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Xirong Li, Content-Based Visual Search Learned from Social Media, University of Amsterdam, March 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Koen van de Sande, Invariant Color Descriptors for Efficient Object Recognition, University of Amsterdam, December 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Jasper Uijlings, The What and Where in Visual Object Recognition, University of Amsterdam, December 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Bouke Huurnink, Search in Audiovisual Broadcast Archives, University of Amsterdam, November 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>M.Sc. Thesis Supervision<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bpiyush.github.io\">P. Bagad<\/a>, It\u2019s About <em>Time<\/em>: Time Awareness in Video Foundation Models, June 2023.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ambekarsameer96.github.io\">S. Ambekar<\/a>, Learning to Generate Labels and Models at Test-Time, June 2023.<\/li>\n<li>S. Kohnstamm, Multi-domain invariant learning with embedding alignment, August 2022.<\/li>\n<li>S. Reuther, Task-Aware Transfer Learning, March 2021.<\/li>\n<li>M. van Rijn, Face Anonymisation in Face Detector&nbsp;Training Data, September 2020.<\/li>\n<li>A. Gansekoele, The Fisher-Watson Detector for Out-of-Distribution and Adversarial Detection, July 2020.<\/li>\n<li>T. van Dijk, Ball-I3D: Localizing Footballs from Player Coordinates, October 2019.<\/li>\n<li>E. Machielse, Video Summarizaton by Learning from a Direct Ground-truth, September 2019.<\/li>\n<li>J. Verhagen,&nbsp;PixelLink++: Adversarial Detection of Text in the Wild, July 2019.<\/li>\n<li>M. Nagel, Meta Fisher Vectors for generative encoding of visual streams, January 2015.<\/li>\n<li>B. van de Poel, Evaluating Visual Representations for Video Event Retrieval, December 2012.<\/li>\n<li>E.A. van Beijsterveldt, Searching Television Fragments Using Micro-Blogs, September 2012.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk\/s1268247\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D. Modolo<\/a>, Towards Semantic Representations for Event Detection and Segmentation, December 2011.<\/li>\n<li>J. Steggink, Adding Semantics to Image Region Annotations with the Name-It-Game, June 2009.<\/li>\n<li>A. Setz, Can Social Tagged Images Aid Concept-Based Video Search?, April 2009.<\/li>\n<li>R. Nijdam, A Performance Evaluation of Concept-Based Video Genre Classification Components, October 2007.<\/li>\n<li>J. Damman, Using a Category System in an Online Annotation Game, September 2007.<\/li>\n<li>T. van Dijk, The Potential of Social Tagged Data for Visual Indexing, July 2007.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~ksande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K.E.A. van de Sande<\/a>, Coloring Concept Detection in Video using Interest Regions, April 2007.<\/li>\n<li>L. van der Zande, On the Effectiveness of Query-Concept-Dependent Video Search, June 2006.<\/li>\n<li>J. Edens, Towards Combining Automatic, Semi-automatic, and Manual Annotation for Semantic Narrowcast Video Retrieval, June 2006.<\/li>\n<li>A. Algoe, People Annotation in Frequent-Face Videos, October 2004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>B.Sc. Thesis Supervision<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>E. Langezaal, Learning to recognise illegible license plates with 3D rendered images, June 2022.<\/li>\n<li>J. Rots, Detecting explosive ATM attacks, July 2019.<\/li>\n<li>H. Scholtens, A Text-Based Framework for Generic Person X Annotation in Broadcast News Video, August 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Invited Presentations<\/h2>\n<h3>International<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Marbella, Spain March 2026.\n<li>IntelliSys Conference, Amsterdam, August 2025.<\/li> \n<li>ELIAS, ELLIOT &#038; ELSA Theme Development Workshop on Foundation Models, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Masterclass in AI and Cardiovascular Health, Amsterdam, June 2025.<\/li>\n<li>MIAI days, Grenoble, June 2025.<\/li>\n<li>ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC Winter School 2025, Bruneck, January 2025.<\/li>\n<li>CVPR Workshop on Multimodal Learning and Applications, Seattle, USA, June 2024.<\/li>\n<li>CVPR Workshop on Learning with Limited Labeled Data, Seattle, USA, June 2024.<\/li>\n<li>CVPR Workshop on Vision Datasets Understanding, Seattle, USA, June 2024.<\/li>\n<li>CVPR Workshop on Holistic Video Understanding, Seattle, USA, June 2024.<\/li>\n<li>AMLD, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2024.<\/li>\n<li>University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, March 2024.<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Amsterdam, January 2024.<\/li>\n<li>ELLIS Workshop on Multimodal Foundation Models, January 2024.<\/li>\n<li>CVPR Workshop on Long-form Video Understanding and Generation, Vancouver, Canada, June 2023.<\/li>\n<li>IKEA AI Summit, Amsterdam, June 2023.<\/li>\n<li>WACV Workshop on Real-World Surveillance: Applications and Challenges, virtual, January 2023.<\/li>\n<li>AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series, virtual, November 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Huawei Cloud Service Summit, Finland, November 2021.<\/li>\n<li>ICCV Tutorial on on Reviewing the Review Process, virtual, October 2021.<\/li>\n<li>ICCV Tutorial on Multi-Modality Learning from Videos and Beyond,&nbsp;virtual, October 2021.<\/li>\n<li>ICCV Tutorial on Large-Scale Holistic Video Understanding, virtual, October 2021.<\/li>\n<li>MM Workshop on Trustworthy AI for Multimedia, China, October 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Fifth IPM Advanced School on Computing: Artificial Intelligence, Iran, September 2021.<\/li>\n<li>IEEE CASS Seasonal School on New Trends of Visual and Language Understanding, China, August 2021.<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Praha, June 2021.<\/li>\n<li>WACV Workshop on Biased and Scarce Data, Hawaii, January 2021.<\/li>\n<li>MM Workshop on Human-centric Multimedia Analysis, Seattle, October 2020.<\/li>\n<li>SRI International, New Jersey, September 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Huawei International Video Intelligence Forum, Dublin, Ireland, September 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Samsung AI Center Cambridge, UK, June 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, November 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Qualcomm, Seoul, Korea, November 2019.<\/li>\n<li>ICCV Workshop on Learning Concepts \u2013 Zero-Shot, One-Shot, Few-Shot and Beyond, Seoul, Korea, October 2019.<\/li>\n<li>ICCV Workshop on Video Retrieval Methods and Their Limits, Seoul, Korea, October 2019.<\/li>\n<li>ICCV Workshop on Large-Scale Video Understanding, Seoul, Korea, October 2019.<\/li>\n<li>ICCV Workshop on Multi-modal video analysis, Seoul, Korea, October 2019.<\/li>\n<li>ICCV Workshop Toward Human-Level Video Story Understanding, October 2019.<\/li>\n<li>BMVA Symposium on Video Understanding, London, UK, September 2019.<\/li>\n<li>CVPR Workshop on Multi-modal learning from videos, Long Beach, USA, June 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook AI Video Summit, Los Angeles, USA, June 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Huawei, Shenzhen, China, May 2019.<\/li>\n<li>IIT-PAVIS, Genoa, Italy, May 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Holland Innovation Seminar, Singapore, February 2019.<\/li>\n<li>WACV Workshop on Human Activity Detection in Multi-Camera, Continuous, Long-Duration Video, Hawaii, USA, January 2019.<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Big Scientific Data Management, Beijing, China, November 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Renmin University, Beijing, China, November 2018.<\/li>\n<li>CVPR Workshop on Video Understanding, Salt Lake City, USA, June 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Qualcomm, San Diego, USA, June 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Machines Can See Conference, Moscow, Russia, June 2018.<\/li>\n<li>EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, May 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 2018.<\/li>\n<li>University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, November 2017.<\/li>\n<li>CVPR Workshop on Brave New Motion, Honolulu, USA, July 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Frontiers of Video Technology Workshop, San Jose, USA, July 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, January 2017.<\/li>\n<li>ECCV Workshop on Storytelling with Images and Videos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2016.<\/li>\n<li>CVPR Workshop on Deep Vision, Las Vegas, USA, June 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Cannes, France, June 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Blippar, London, UK, April 2016.<\/li>\n<li>ICCV Workshop on Web-scale Vision and Social Media, Santiago, Chile, December 2015.<\/li>\n<li>MM Workshop on Human-Centered Event Understanding from Multimedia, Brisbane, Australia, October 2015.<\/li>\n<li>SIGMM Multimedia Frontier Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, October 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Re.Work Deep Learning Summit, London, UK, September 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Inria-LEAR, Grenoble, France, July 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Qualcomm, San Diego, USA, October 2014.<\/li>\n<li>ECCV Workshop on THUMOS Challenge: Action Recognition with a Large Number of Classes, Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, September 2014.<\/li>\n<li>ECCV Workshop on Visual surveillance and Re-identification, Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, September 2014.<\/li>\n<li>ICMR Workshop on Social Events in Web Multimedia, Glasgow, UK, April 2014.<\/li>\n<li>VRT Media Fast Forward event, Brussels, Belgium, November 2013.<\/li>\n<li>MM Workshop on Event-based Media Integration and Processing, Barcelona, Spain, October 2013.<\/li>\n<li>MMC Seminar: Changing Sceneries, Changing Roles, Hilversum, May 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University, Prague, April 2013.<\/li>\n<li>ECCV Workshop on Information fusion in computer vision for concept recognition, Firenze, Italy, October 2012.<\/li>\n<li>International Workshop on Digital Media Analysis, Search and Management, La Jolla, USA, February 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Audio-Visual Search Cluster meeting, Brussels, December 2011.<\/li>\n<li>International Workshop on Computer Vision Applications, Eindhoven, March 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Gracenote, Emeryville, USA, February 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Google Inc., Mountain View, USA, October 2010.<\/li>\n<li>U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, USA, September 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Akiira Media Systems, Palo Alto, USA, June 2010.<\/li>\n<li>FXPAL, Palo Alto, USA, January 2010.<\/li>\n<li>K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, May 2009.<\/li>\n<li>National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, January 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Schloss Dagstuhl, Dagstuhl, Germany, June 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Glasgow University, Glasgow, UK, July 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, July 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany. October, 2005.<\/li>\n<li>University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, March, 2004.<\/li>\n<li>Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, October 2003.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>National<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>ICAI Summerschool, Amsterdam, June 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Het Politie AI Congres, Utrecht, June 2025.<\/li>\n<li>SURF Advanced Computing User Day, December 2024.<\/li>\n<li>AI@VU, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, June 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, April 2024.<\/li>\n<li>ChatGPT: een jaar na lancering, KNAW, November 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Transformers at Work, Amsterdam, September 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Don Bosco College, Volendam, January 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Amsterdam AI Tech Week, October 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Lunch at ICAI, September 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Van Mierlo Stichting, April 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Florence Nightingale Colloquium, Leiden, December 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Teknowlogy, Maarssen, November 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Lunch at ICAI, October 2020.<\/li>\n<li>NVPHBV, Amsterdam, November 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Gemeente Edam-Volendam, November 2019.<\/li>\n<li>SPUI25, Amsterdam, May 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Thalia Symposium, Radboud University, March 2019.<\/li>\n<li>SPUI25, Amsterdam, March 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Gemeente Amsterdam, February 2019.<\/li>\n<li>SNIC, SingularIT, Haarlem, November 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Business Cluster Semiconductors Netherlands, Heteren, July 2018.<\/li>\n<li>French Tech Amsterdam, May 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam, April 2018.<\/li>\n<li>MAGNIMS workshop, Amsterdam, April 2018.<\/li>\n<li>University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, February 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, January 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Radboud University, Nijmegen, December 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, October 2017.<\/li>\n<li>VOGIN-IP, Amsterdam, March 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Institute Quantivision Conference, February 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Schiphol GMI overleg, Schiphol, October 2016.<\/li>\n<li>ICT.OPEN, Apeldoorn, March 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Cross Media Cafe &#8216;Video Formats&#8217;, Hilversum, February 2016.<\/li>\n<li>National eScience Symposium, Amsterdam, October 2015.<\/li>\n<li>AWTI, NIKHEF Amsterdam, June 2015.<\/li>\n<li>SEA: Search Engines Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, May 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Barlaeus Lecture, Universiteit van Amsterdam, December 2013.<\/li>\n<li>ICT.OPEN, Eindhoven, November 2013.<\/li>\n<li>ASCI.OPEN, Eindhoven, November 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Landelijke videodag, Nederlands Forensisch Instituut, The Hague, June 2013.<\/li>\n<li>DAS workshop, Delft, February 2013.<\/li>\n<li>NWO Chemistry &amp; Physical Sciences, The Hague, January 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Delft University of Technology, Delft, October 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Colloquium, Amsterdam, October 2012.<\/li>\n<li>ZiuZ Gebruikersdag, Sint Nicolaasga, May 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Amsterdam Image Statistics &amp; Neural Processing Meeting, Amsterdam, March 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Afscheidsseminar Eric Sieverts, Amsterdam, January 2012.<\/li>\n<li>TNO, Delft, August 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Fulbright Award Ceremony, Amsterdam, June 2011.<\/li>\n<li>NWO Bessensap, Den Haag, June 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Symposium on Future Directions for Indexing and Retrieving Visual Media, Amsterdam, November 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Landelijke videodag, Nederlands Forensisch Instituut, The Hague, June 2010.<\/li>\n<li>ICTDelta, Rotterdam, March 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Leidsche Flesch, Leiden University, Leiden, February 2010.<\/li>\n<li>B\u00e8tapartners education conference, Amsterdam, January 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Society of the Query conference, Amsterdam, November 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Cross Media Cafe &#8216;Media &amp; Uitvinders&#8217;, Hilversum, October 2009.<\/li>\n<li>CWI, Amsterdam, April 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Delft University of Technology, Delft, February 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Delft University of Technology, Delft, May 2008.<\/li>\n<li>CWI, Amsterdam, November 2004.<\/li>\n<li>TNO, Delft, April 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Nederlands Genootschap voor Informatica, Amsterdam, April 2002.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Grants and Prizes<\/h2>\n<h3>Grants<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>PI of NWO Open Technology project: <em>Real-Time Video Surveillance Search.<\/em> December 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Co-PI of IARPA DIVA project <em>TARDIS-V: Multi-Layer Compositional Activity Understanding using Joint Visual and Semantic Inference<\/em>. November 2017.<\/li>\n<li>WP leader of NWO Perspectief on Efficient Deep Learning project: <em>Deep Learning for Video Analysis and Surveillance<\/em>. November 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Co-PI of QUVA Lab, Toeslag Topconsortia voor Kennis en Innovatie, December 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Co-PI of QUVA Lab, the public-private partnership between Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and the University of Amsterdam. May 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Co-PI of Digging into Data proposal: <em>Digging Archaeology Data: Image Search and Markup (DADAISM)<\/em>. January 2014.<\/li>\n<li>PI of NWO Big Grid proposal: <em>VideoSCOUD: Video Search on the Cloud<\/em>. October 2012.<\/li>\n<li>PI of NWO Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (&#8220;VIDI&#8221;) proposal: <em>STORY: Searching for the events told by video content<\/em>. June 2012.<\/li>\n<li>WP leader of FES COMMIT sub-grant proposal: <em>Socially-Enriched Access to Linked Cultural Media<\/em>. October 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Co-PI of IARPA Aladdin <em>SESAME: Video Search with Speed and Accuracy for Multimedia Events<\/em>. October 2010.<\/li>\n<li>PI of Fulbright Junior Scholar proposals: <em>Visual Search Engines<\/em> (teaching) and <em>Shaping Visual Semantics for Video Search<\/em> (research), both executed at U.C. Berkeley, CA, USA. April 2010.<\/li>\n<li>PI of NWO-NCF proposal: <em>VideoSUPER: Video Search by Understanding Multiple Keyframes<\/em>. June 2009.<\/li>\n<li>PI of MultimediaN Idea-competition proposal: <em>De PinkPop Teletijdmachine<\/em>. May 2009.<\/li>\n<li>PI of NWO Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (&#8220;VENI&#8221;) proposal: <em>SEARCHER: Substituting Experts by Amateurs for Concept-based Video Retrieval<\/em>. August 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Co-PI of Dutch\/Flemish IM-Pact proposal: <em>BeeldCanon: Videobeelden Categoriseren van Atomium tot Zaanse Schans<\/em>. March 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Co-PI of Muscle Showcase proposal: <em>Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation Showcases<\/em>. December 2006.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2025, outstanding reviewer, NeurIPS.<\/li>\n<li>2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2401.04716\">best paper award<\/a>, CVPR workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization.<\/li>\n<li>2021, outstanding reviewer, NeurIPS.<\/li>\n<li>2020, <a href=\"http:\/\/sigmm.org\/Awards\/testoftime\">SIGMM test of time paper award<\/a>, honourable mention.<\/li>\n<li>2020, outstanding reviewer, NeurIPS.<\/li>\n<li>2019, outstanding reviewer, CVPR.<\/li>\n<li>2017, best performer, NIST TRECVID multimedia event detection task.<\/li>\n<li>2017, best performer, NIST TRECVID ad-hoc video search task.<\/li>\n<li>2017, <a href=\"http:\/\/isis-data.science.uva.nl\/cgmsnoek\/pub\/awad-trecvid-retrospective-ite.pdf\">ITE Niwa-Takayanagi Best Paper Award<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2016, best performer, NIST TRECVID video to text task.<\/li>\n<li>2016, best performer, NIST TRECVID multimedia event detection task.<\/li>\n<li>2016, best entry, ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge.<\/li>\n<li>2016, outstanding reviewer, CVPR.<\/li>\n<li>2016, <a href=\"http:\/\/isis-data.science.uva.nl\/cgmsnoek\/pub\/kordumova-pooling-objects-icmr2016.pdf\">best paper award<\/a>, ACM ICMR.<\/li>\n<li>2015, runner-up, ImageNet 200 object detection task.<\/li>\n<li>2015, best performer, NIST TRECVID multimedia event detection task.<\/li>\n<li>2015, best performer, NIST TRECVID localization task.<\/li>\n<li>2015, best performer, NIST TRECVID semantic indexing task.<\/li>\n<li>2015, outstanding reviewer, CVPR.<\/li>\n<li>2014, <a href=\"http:\/\/isis-data.science.uva.nl\/cgmsnoek\/pub\/habibian-videostory-mm2014.pdf\">best paper award<\/a>, ACM Multimedia.<\/li>\n<li>2014, best performer, THUMOS action classification challenge.<\/li>\n<li>2014, best performer, NIST TRECVID semantic indexing task.<\/li>\n<li>2013, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science.uva.nl\/research\/publications\/2013\/LiICCV2013\/li_codemaps_iccv13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best paper award<\/a>, ASCI.<\/li>\n<li>2013, best performer, ImageNet 200 object detection task.<\/li>\n<li>2013, best performer, all four NIST TRECVID semantic indexing tasks.<\/li>\n<li>2012, Netherlands prize for ICT-Research.<\/li>\n<li>2012, <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~gavves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best paper award<\/a>, ASCI.<\/li>\n<li>2012, <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~habibian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best poster award<\/a>, ASCI.<\/li>\n<li>2012, best performer, Pascal VOC classification with localization.<\/li>\n<li>2012, runner-up, NIST TRECVID video concept detection.<\/li>\n<li>2012, runner-up, NIST TRECVID video event detection.<\/li>\n<li>2012, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signalprocessingsociety.org\/tmm\/tmm-paper-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prize Paper<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2012, NWO VIDI.<\/li>\n<li>2012, <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~cgmsnoek\/pub\/li-geo-context-icmr2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best paper runner-up<\/a>, ACM ICMR.<\/li>\n<li>2011, best performer, ImageNet classification with localization.<\/li>\n<li>2011, runner-up, NIST TRECVID video concept detection.<\/li>\n<li>2010, best performer, NIST TRECVID video concept detection.<\/li>\n<li>2010, <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~gavves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best paper award<\/a>, ASCI.<\/li>\n<li>2010, <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~cgmsnoek\/pub\/li-multifeature-civr10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best paper award<\/a>, ACM CIVR.<\/li>\n<li>2010, <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~cgmsnoek\/pub\/huurnink-archive-civr2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best paper runner-up<\/a>, ACM CIVR.<\/li>\n<li>2010, Fulbright Junior Scholar.<\/li>\n<li>2009, best performer, NIST TRECVID video concept detection.<\/li>\n<li>2009, best performer, NIST TRECVID video interactive retrieval.<\/li>\n<li>2008, best performer, NIST TRECVID video concept detection.<\/li>\n<li>2008, best performer, NIST TRECVID video interactive retrieval.<\/li>\n<li>2008, NWO VENI.<\/li>\n<li>2005, best performer, NIST TRECVID video interactive retrieval.<\/li>\n<li>2005, <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~cgmsnoek\/pub\/snoek-demo-acm2005.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best technical demonstration<\/a>, ACM Multimedia.<\/li>\n<li>2004, best performer, NIST TRECVID video concept detection.<\/li>\n<li>2004, best performer, NIST TRECVID video interactive retrieval.<\/li>\n<li>2001, best regional master thesis, Nederlands Genootschap voor Informatica.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Total: <a href=\"..\/publications\/\">300+ publications<\/a> (70+ journals)<\/li>\n<li>Google Scholar <a title=\"H-Index\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hirsch_number\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">H-index<\/a>: 70+<\/li>\n<li>Google Scholar <a title=\"Google Scholar citations\" href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=0uKdbscAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">citations<\/a>: 23k+<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Five Selected<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Wenfang Sun, Hao Chen, Yingjun Du, Yefeng Zheng, Cees G M Snoek: RegionReasoner: Region-Grounded Multi-Round Visual Reasoning. In: ICLR, 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani, Dheeraj Varghese, Marzieh Fadaee, Cees G M Snoek: NeoBabel: A Multilingual Open Tower for Visual Generation. arXiv:2507.06137, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Zehao Xiao, Cees G M Snoek: Beyond Model Adaptation at Test Time: A Survey. arXiv:2411.03687, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Yunhua Zhang, Hazel Doughty, Cees G M Snoek: Low-Resource Vision Challenges for Foundation Models. In: CVPR, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Piyush Bagad, Makarand Tapaswi, Cees G M Snoek: Test of Time: Instilling Video-Language Models with a Sense of Time. In: CVPR, 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Patents<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Several granted, a dozen pending.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Details Name Prof. dr. Cees G.M. Snoek Office Video &amp; Image Sense LabInformatics InstituteUniversity of AmsterdamScience Park 900P.O. 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