Welcome!

I am Vice President of Engineering and Applied Science (AI) at TomTom, where I lead the product unit responsible for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS), and the creation of High-Definition (HD) maps across the entire organization. With a relentless commitment to innovation and technological advancement, my team and I are at the forefront of shaping the future of automotive safety, autonomy, and navigation. Our work not only drives the evolution of intelligent transportation systems but also underscores TomTom's dedication to providing cutting-edge solutions that redefine the automotive industry.

I am also an AI Adjunct professor in the department of mathematics and computer science at the Eindhoven University of Technology. 

Together with Elahe Arani, I co-direct the NeurAI Lab, which develops Neuro-Inspired AI models capable of learning efficiently from multiple tasks. The primary goal of the lab is to conduct fundamental research in deep learning, which is inspired by how the brain works and learns, with a focus on continual learning, self-supervised learning, and meta-learning.

News

• Jan 2024: 2 papers accepted at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024)

• Feb 2023: Paper accepted at Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

• Oct 2023: Paper accepted at IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2024)

• Sep 2023: Paper accepted at Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)

• Apr 2023: 2 papers accepted at the Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023)

• Feb 2023: 2 papers accepted at Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

• Jan 2023: 2 papers accepted at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2023)

• Jan 2023:  Paper accepted at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)

• Nov 2022: Paper accepted at Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023) (Oral presentation)

• Aug 2022: Our TMLR paper received a 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

• Jul 2022: Paper accepted at the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022)

• May 2022: 6/6 papers accepted at Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs 2022)

• Jan 2022: Paper accepted at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2022)

• March 2023: Our large (€ 11.5 million) Horizon Europe project "ENFIELD: European Lighthouse to Manifest Trustworthy and Green AI" received funding. The proposal was submitted to the call HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-02-02: European Network of AI Excellence Centers: Expanding the European AI Lighthouse.

• March 2022: Our SAFEXPLAIN Project 2021 Horizon Europe Program was awarded (€4M, of which €600k for our group). This project focuses on SAFE and EXPLAINable critical embedded systems based on AI.