

The Translational Data Science & AI Lab: https://tdslab.nl
- 2025-2029: MULAMAQ, 300K EUR (LIACS).
- Multimodal Language Markers for Perceived Quality-of-Life Assessment.
InSPIRe 2025 (LIACS Initiative for Strategic PhD/Postdoc and Innovative Research).
Remark: grant total: 300K EUR.
Researcher(s): Ng,Y.M.
easychair.org/inspire2025
- 2025-2029: UNCAN-Connect, 475K EUR (LIACS).
- Decentralized Collaborative Network for Advancing Cancer Research and Innovation.
HORIZON-RIA: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CANCER-01-01 (Research and Innovation actions supporting the implementation of the Mission on Cancer).
Remarks: grant total: 30M EUR, 53 partners from 19 European and associated countries, comprising 6 SMEs, 3 LEs, 42 RTOs, 3 affiliated partners, and 1 NGO.
Researcher(s): 1 PhD student, 1 postdoc. horizon-miss-2024-cancer-01-01
- 2024-2026: ECOTIP, EUR 130K (LUMC).
- Identifying tipping points of the effects of living environments on ecosyndemics of lifestyle-related illnesses by ML/NLP modelling of a patient segmentation model based on EHR and environmental data.
Financer(s): NWO New Science Agenda (NWA-ORC).
Applicant(s): Kiefte,J., Spruit,M., Vos,R., et al.
Remark: NWO dossier NWA.1518.22.151; grant total: 4.4M EUR.
Researcher(s): Muizelaar,H.
www.nwo.nl/en/projects/nwa151822151
- 2024-2025: Phaeton, EUR 150K (LUMC) + EUR 50K (LIACS).
- Pandemic preparedness. Portable platform as a service for crowdsourced and privacy respecting data analysis and modeling.
Financer: ZonMW Modelleren voor Pandemische Paraatheid: een oproep tot innovatie en kennisontwikkeling SA 2023.
Applicant(s): Bouwman,J., Haas,M., Spruit,M..
Remark: ZonMW dossier #10710062310030, grant total: 500K EUR.
Researcher(s): Vinkenoog,M.
universiteitleiden.nl/.../liacs-phaeton
- 2023-2026: INSAFEDARE, EUR 571K (LUMC).
- Innovative applications of assessment and assurance of data and synthetic data for regulatory decision support. Generation and evaluation of a benchmarking synthetic dataset amenable to the regulatory process, analytical methods for validation of digital health applications, and components for data integration pipelines.
Financer(s): Horizon Europe: HORIZON-HLTH-2022-TOOL-11-02: Tools and technologies for a healthy society.
Applicant(s): Despotou,G. et al.
Remark: HEU project #101095661; grant total: 4.8M EUR.
Researcher(s): Achterberg,J. & Dijk,B. van
10.3030/101095661
- 2023-2025: HealthBox, EUR 66,000 (LUMC).
- A personalized, home-based eHealth intervention to treat metabolic syndrome and prevent its complications by ML/NLP modelling of a patient segmentation model based on EHR and environmental data.
Applicant(s): Chavannes,N., Atsma,D., Pijl,H., Vos,R., et al.
Remark: grant total: 2.5M EUR.
Researcher(s): Muizelaar,H.
nwo.nl/en/projects/kich1gz0321007
- 2021-2025: VIPP, EUR 60K (LUMC).
- Virtual Patients and Population Dataset. Develop a synthetic ELAN dataset to improve teaching data science.
Financer(s): LUMC Interprofessional Education (IPE) programme.
Applicant(s): Spruit,M., & Szuhai,K.
Remark: Project Raamplan Implementatie Artsopleiding (PRIMA) 2020 working group deliverable wrt Theme 5 on Big Data and AI.
Researcher(s): Faiq,A.
healthcampusdenhaag.nl/nl/project/ virtuele-patient-en-populatie-vipp-dataset/
- 2025-2026: Transdiagnostische versterking van de ELAN kennisinfrastructuur (LUMC).
- ZonMW, Nationaal Plan Hoofdzaken: kennis en data beter delen SA 2024.
PI: Giltay,Erik.
Remark: Total grant total: 648K EUR.
Deadline: 25/02/2025.
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- 2025: COACH
- COnversational AI for Cancer reHabilitation. Kansen voor West fonds. Gen-AI agent for personalised lifestyle advice from trusted source for young people with cancer.
Researcher: Ng,Yee Man. healthychronos.com/en
- 2025: Understanding Homicide in Indonesia
- Leiden University Global Fund (LUGF) Seed Fund. Harnessing Traditional and New Media Data for Insight. Collaboration with Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Applicants: O. Bogolyubova, M. Liem (ISGA), M. Spruit. /leiden-university-global-fund/
- 2022-2026: PreProMMF (ULEI)
- Natural Language Processing in Mental Health: Detection, Prediction and Promotion with Multilingual, Multimodal and Federated Techniques. Sponsor: Arab Academy of Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AAST). Financed as a 60% lecturer - 40% researcher contract. Researcher(s): Khalil,S.
- 2021-2025: Data2Bedside (LUMC)
- Reusing routinely collected data from regional GP offices in ELAN to create a clinical decision support tool to identify disease progression risk levels in Type Two Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) patients. Sponsor: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia scholarship. Researcher(s): Alfaraj,S.
- 2021-2026: PHA (LUMC)
- Population Health Analytics. Maturity modelling for situational data infrastructure and scenario planning towards appropriate regional intelligence. Sponsor: Q-Consult Zorg. Researcher(s): Roorda,E.
- 2018-2024: PbD (UU)
- Privacy-by-Design. How organisations can demonstrate responsible data use in information systems through Privacy-by-Design. Sponsor: P&O Rijk. Researcher(s): Dijk,F. van

- Thiel,Haike van (In progress). Personalised and realistic training scenarios with artificial patients using AI models in Trauma Care. Civil-Military Centre of Expertise for Trauma Care (CETC). Supervisors: Spruit,Marco.
- Nguyen,Van (In progress). Social Robotics System for Elderly Care Using Large Language Models and Raspberry Pi. Supervisors: Spruit,Marco, & Van Dijk,Bram (daily) (LUMC).
- de Koning,Irene (In progress). Creating a data-driven health provider for benchmarking. Supervisors: Spruit,Marco, & Husslage,Bart (CZ).
- Meng,Maggie (In progress). An evaluation of data analysis techniques in digital health applications. Supervisors: Spruit,Marco, Van Dijk,Bram, & Achterberg,Jim (daily) (LUMC).
- Mian,Belal (In progress). LLMs in the analysis of interviews with older people about goals of care: a pilot study. Supervisors: Spruit,Marco, Van Dijk,Bram (daily), & Mooijaart,Simon (LUMC).
- Hagen, Leila (In progress). News mining for Homicide characteristics in Indonesia. Spruit,Marco; Bogolyubova,Olga (UL/FGGA).
- Cieloszczyk, Anna (In progress). MDL-based association rule mining on ELAN data to better understand opioids usage. Spruit,Marco.
- W. Wang (UM, 22/05/2025). Categorical Data Embedding (prof. M. Dumontier, S. Bromuri).
- S. de Vries (UU, 15/05/2025). Overcoming Label Limitations: Leveraging Unlabelled Data and Label Uncertainty to Enhance Classification Models (prof. G. Barkema, D. Thierens).
- T. Seinen (EMC, 15/04/2025). Valuing Clinical Text: From information extraction to predictive modeling (prof. P. Rijnbeek, J. Kors).
- Z. Yang (LIACS, 26/02/2025). Enhancing Autonomy and Efficiency in Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning (prof. A. Plaat, T. Moerland, M. Preuss).
- R. Murphy (AMC, 27/01/2025). Adverse drug event detection in Intensive Care Unit electronic health record data - Using natural language processing in Dutch clinical text (prof. A. Abu-Hanna, prof N. de Keizer, J. Klopotowska, I. Calixto).
- R. Butz (OU, 12/12/2024). Enhancing Medical Decision Making with Bayesian Networks: A Journey into Interpretability and User Perception (prof. H. van Ditmarsch, prof R. Helms, A. Hommersom).
- M. van Buchem (LUMC, 11/12/2024). Natural Language Processing in Healthcare: Applications and Value (prof E. Steyerberg, I. Kant, M. Bauer).
- D. Misoo Kim (Universidad de Murcia, 3/10/2024). Simulation and Visualization of Spatial-Temporal Data in Hospital Infection Outbreaks (dr. D. Manuel Campos Martínez, dr. José Manuel Juárez Herrero).
- L. Yang (LIACS, 20/9/2024). Information-theoretic Partition-based Models for Interpretable Machine Learning (dr. M. van Leeuwen, prof. A. Plaat).
- M. Fragkiadakis (LIACS, 9/4/2024, secretary). Digital Tools for Sign Language Research: Towards Recognition and Comparison of Lexical Signs (prof M. Mous, P. van der Putten, V. Nyst).
- M. Lao (LIACS, 28/11/2023). Exploring Deep Learning for Multimodal Understanding (prof M. Lew, prof A. Plaat).
- R. Turner (ULEI/MI, 14/11/2023). Safe Anytime-Valid Inference: from Theory to Implementation in Psychiatry Research (prof P. Grünwald, prof F. Scheepers, A. Harma).
- K. van Mens (RUN/Psychiatry, 24/05/2023). Discovering insights with machine learning: Lessons learned from case studies in mental healthcare (prof B. Tiemens, prof R. Janssen, J. Lokkerbol, D. de Beurs).
- M. Gomez-Maureira (LIACS, 26/04/2023). Exploration through video games. (prof A. Plaat, prof C. Rieffe, M. van Duijn).
- S. Girwar (LUMC, 22/06/2023, secretary). Population Health Risk Assessment in Primary Care (prof M. Numans, prof M. Fiocco, M. Bruijnzeels).
- A. Pereira Barata (LIACS, 5/4/2023, secretary). Reliable and Fair Machine Learning for Risk Assessment. (prof J. van den Herik, C. Veenman, F. Takes).
- E. Sanders (RUN/Linguistics, 9/2/2023). Vox Populi: On Forecasting Elections with Twitter. (prof A. van der Bosch, H. van der Heuvel).
- A. Dirkson (LIACS), 6/12/2022). Knowledge Discovery from Patient Forums: Gaining novel medical insights from patient experiences (prof W Kraaij, prof A. Gelderblom, S. Verberne).
- G. Kantidakis (LUMC, 23/11/2022). Analysis of sarcoma and non-sarcoma clinical data with statistical methods and machine learning techniques (prof A. Gelderblom, prof M Fiocco, S. Litière).
- M. Kroon (LUCL, 10/11/2022). Towards the Automatic Detection of Syntactic Differences (prof L. Barbiers, prof J Odijk, S. van der Plas).
- J. Lin (LIACS, 24/6/2022). Algorithms for Structural Variant Detection (W. Kosters, prof K. Ye).
- X. Wang (LIACS, 24/6/2022). Multi Modal Representation Learning and Cross-Modal Semantic Matching (prof F. Verbeek, Y. Du, S. Verberne).
- J. Koorn (UU/ICS, 30/5/2022). Work in Process: Unearthing Meaning using Process Mining (prof H Reijers, prof H. Leopold, X. Lu).
- N. Koning (LUMC, 30/3/2021). Identification of child mental health problems in primary care: an interdisciplinary approach (prof M Numans, M. Crone, F. Büchner).
- A. Bagheri (UU, 15/1/2021). Text Mining in Healthcare: Bringing Structure to Electronic Health Records (prof P. van der Heijden, prof F Asselbergs, D. Oberski).
- H. Sokooti (LUMC/RADI, 25/11/2021). Supervised Learning in Medical Image Registration (prof B. Lelieveldt, M. Staring).