Welcome

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Knowledge Engineering, Maastricht University. I received the Ph.D. degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Department of Computer Science, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, in 2004. My research interests include heuristic search, machine learning and games. I regularly serve on program committees of major AI and computer games conferences. I am a section editor of the ICGA Journal and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games.

Short Bio

• 2009-present: Assistant professor at Department of Knowledge Engineering, Maastricht University

• 2006-2008:  Postdoctoral researcher at Maastricht ICT Competence Centre (MICC), Maastricht University

  • 2006-2007: Employed on the EU-funded FP6 research project MYCAREVENT

• March 2006 - August 2006 : Postdoctoral researcher at the School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland

• 2005-2006: Software Engineer at the department of Computer Science (R&D) of Statistics Netherlands, Heerlen

• 2000-2004: Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science, Maastricht University

  • December 1, 2004: Successfully defending my Ph.D. thesis "Informed Search of Complex Games"

  • June 2003 - September 2003: Guest Researcher at Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan

• 1996-2000: Study Knowledge Engineering at Maastricht University. 

  • 2000: M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence

  • 1998 - 1999: Third year at Hasselt University  (previously called LUC), Diepenbeek, Belgium

  • September 1998: Summer Course at Baylor University, Waco, Texas

  • 1998: Bachelors degree (=Kandidaats) Computer Science

• 1990-1996: Gymnasium, Stella Maris College, Meerssen

• April 5, 1978: I was born.