1. Max Welling HGL Machine Learning UvA Group: Intelligent Autonomous Agents

2. AIS @ UvA Prof. dr. Max Welling, full professor (from Sept 2012) Prof. dr. Dariu Gavrila, part-time professor Prof. dr. ir. Ben Kröse, endowed professor Dr. ir. Leo Dorst, assistant professor Dr. Shimon Whiteson, assistant professor Dr. Joris Mooij, assistant professor (from 2013) 4 postdocs 14 Ph.D students

3. Scope of Activities Machine Learning / Big Data – Large scale inference & learning (M. Welling) – Discovering causal structure (J. Mooij) – Reinforcement learning & planning (S. Whiteson) Robotics – Intelligent environment and assistive devices (B. Krose) – Perception & modeling of human activities (D. Gavrilla)

4. Scope of Activities (ML) Focus Areas Machine Learning / Big Data – Collaborations in Science (Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy) – Health – Privacy (privacy preserving representations) – Financial (via spinoff Scyfer @ ING) Possible Future Interests: – Energy (energy consumption prediction) – Safety (crime prediction)