I’ve had the privilege of supervising and working with the following PhD students, research engineers, and MSc & BSc students:

PhD

– Heydar Soudani, Radboud University, 2023-current
      Topic: Knowledge-enriched Conversational AI
     Co-advisor: Evangelos Kanoulas, Promoter: Arjen de Vries

– Mohanna Hoveyda, Radboud University, 2023-current
            Topic: Knowledge-enriched Conversational AI
           Co-advisor: Maarten de Rijke, Promoter: Arjen de Vries

– IFan Lin, (co-supervisor), Leiden University, 2023-current
      Topic: Domain Adaptation for Conversational AI
     Main advisor: Suzan Verberne

– Roxana Petcu, (co-supervisor), University of Amsterdam, 2023-current
      Topic: Text-based Data Augmentation for Conversational AI
       Main advisor: Evangelos Kanoulas

– Hideaki Joko, Radboud University, 2020-current
            Topic: Conversational Entity Search
            Promoter: Arjen de Vries

– Emma Gerritse, Radboud University, 2019-current
            Topic: Knowledge Graph embeddings
            Promoter: Arjen de Vries

Research Engineers:

– Erik Tjong Kim Sang (from Netherlands eScience Center), 2022-current
       Topic: REL 2.0 -Multilingual and Multipurpose Entity Linking Toolkit

– Stef Smeets (from Netherlands eScience Center), 2022-current
       Topic: Efficient REL (Radboud Entity Linker)

MSc. and BSc. theses

– Arne Wittgen, (BSc), Zero- and Few-Shot Entailment-based Relation Extraction for Conversations, Radboud University, 2023. [pdf]

– Josip Koprčina, (MSc), Query Re-writing for Conversational Search, Radboud University, 2023. [pdf]

– Jeftha Spunda, (MSc), Entity-aware Entity Retrieval, Radboud University, 2021. 

– Stergios Morakis, (MSc), Entity Linking for Greek, Radboud University, 2021. [pdf]

– Gizem Aydin, (MSc), Entity linking in funding domain, Radboud University, 2021. [pdf]

– Marnix Dessing, (MSc),  Radboud University (in collaboration with ASML), 2021.

– Hermen van Westen, (BSc), Effect of Surface Form Dictionary on Effectiveness of Entity Linking, Radboud University, 2021. [pdf]

– Simge Ekiz, Sentence Level Event Classification in Newspaper Articles, Radboud University, 2020. [pdf]

– Tino Hakim Lazreg,  Entity Retrieval through Entity Annotated Corpus, NTNU, 2015. [pdf]

MSc. internships

– Nina Eerdewijk, Radboud University (with Textmetrics), 2022

– Denise Meerkerk, Radboud University (with Alliander), 2022

– Reza Shokrzad, Radboud University (with Henkel), 2022

– Niels van Nistelrooij, Radboud University (with Hammer B.V.), 2021

– Honghong Zhu, Radboud University (with Textmetrics), 2021

– Ron Hommelsheim, Radboud University, 2021

– Filip Slijkhuis, Radboud University (with NS), 2021

– Veerle van Winden, Radboud University (with Svalbard University), 2021

– Stijn Vromans, Radboud University (with Bol.com), 2021

– Joost Besseling, Radboud University (with Impacter), 2021

– Aucke Bos, Radboud University (with Menzis), 2021

– Gizem Aydin, (MSc), Radboud University (with Elsevier), 2021

– Mick van Hulst, Radboud University, 2020