Stephan Raaijmakers

Stephan Raaijmakers received his education as a computational linguist at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD on machine learning–based NLP from Tilburg University. He has been working since 2000 at TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, an independent organization founded by law in 1932, aimed at enabling business and government to apply scientific knowledge, contributing to industrial innovation and societal welfare. Within TNO, he has worked on many machine learning–intensive projects dealing with language. Stephan is also a professor of communicative AI at Leiden University (LUCL, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics). His chair focuses on deep learning–based approaches to human-machine dialogue.