Leveraging exceptional AI talent is important to strengthen the national knowledge and training base in the field of AI. We are therefore pleased to announce the second and third awards in the AiNed Fellowship grants Programme to Dr. Sonja de Zwarte and Dr. Charlotte Frenkel. We warmly congratulate them on this award! We look forward to their contribution to AI research in the Netherlands.
The AiNed Fellowship grants help Dutch academic knowledge institutes attract AI talents who can usually choose between several competing appointments. This Programme is aimed at exceptional AI talent who can be employed in an AI field ranging from technology to the social sciences and humanities. The Programme enables research institutions to offer AI talents a more attractive basic package. We are happy to provide some more information about both research projects.
Award to Dr. Sonja de Zwarte
The grant will enable Dr. De Zwarte to soon begin a research project entitled "Child Health through Artificial intelligence Models and Predictions (CHAMP)" at Utrecht University. The goal is to develop and apply deep learning techniques to extract valuable information about early brain development and social-emotional development from already acquired images and videos to predict mental health outcomes in children.
Award to Dr. Charlotte Frenkel
Dr. Frenkel will soon use the grant to start a research project titled "SynergAI - Uncovering the Neuro-AI synergies through neuromorphic hardware inspired by the neocortex" at Delft University of Technology. "I want to contribute to a future where computers are smaller and more adaptive. This means they will have much less impact on our society, both in terms of resource use and capital needed for updates and replacement," Dr. Frenkel said. Read more about this research project here.
Also interested as a Dutch academic knowledge institute to submit an application? Applications for this Call for proposals can be submitted from 5 September 2022 until 15 December 2023 at 14:00 Dutch time. For more information about this call and submitting proposals go to www.nwo.nl/AiNedFellowship.
This program component of the AiNed-Programme is suitable for all Dutch universities and the NWO and KNAW institutes. The total grant budget for this program component is almost €20 million for the first round (2022-2023). Up to 23 proposals are expected to be funded. There are still 20 grants available.
This Programme targets Dutch academic knowledge institutes that, following their strategy, want to invest in attracting AI talent for the position of (tenure track) associate professor, associate professor or full professor. The AI talent is selected by the research organization. The AiNed Fellowship grants will increase the number of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers at Dutch academic knowledge institutes that focus on the challenges that are part of the AI Research Agenda for the Netherlands (AIREA-NL).