Faculty of Science
The
University of Amsterdam is the Netherlands' largest university, offering the widest range of academic programmes. At the UvA, 30,000 students, 6,000 staff members and 3,000 PhD candidates study and work in a diverse range of fields, connected by a culture of curiosity.
The
Faculty of Science has a student body of around 8,000, as well as 1,800 members of staff working in education, research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain.
The mission of the
Informatics Institute (IvI) is to perform curiosity-driven and use-inspired fundamental research in Computer Science. The main research themes are Artificial Intelligence, Computational Science and Systems and Network Engineering. Our research involves complex information systems at large, with a focus on collaborative, data driven, computational and intelligent systems, all with a strong interactive component.
The
Atlas Lab is embedded in the
Video & Image Sense (VIS) and
Computer Vision (CV) Labs, two groups within the Informatics Institute working on visual recognition and retrieval. Each project will be done in collaboration with experts from
TomTom. The lab will be part of the
Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), a Netherlands initiative focused on joint technology development between academia, industry and government in the area of artificial intelligence.