Matthijs van Leeuwen | Associate Professor, Group Leader and Director of MSc Education, LIACS (Leiden University)

Matthijs van Leeuwen is associate professor, group leader of the Explanatory Data Analysis group, and Director of MSc Education at LIACS, the computer science and artificial intelligence institute of Leiden University. His primary research interest is exploratory data mining: how can we enable domain experts to explore and analyse their data, to discover structure and -ultimately- novel knowledge?

Matthijs was previously a tenure-track assistant professor (2017-2020) and senior researcher (2015-2017) at Leiden University, and a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven (2011-2015) and Universiteit Utrecht (2009-2011). He defended his Ph.D. thesis, titled Patterns that Matter, in February 2010, at Universiteit Utrecht. He won several best paper awards at international conferences and was awarded NWO Rubicon, FWO Postdoc, NWO TOP2, and NWO TTW Perspectief grants. He is General Chair of the IDA Council and Action Editor of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal. Further, he co-organised a number of international conferences and workshops, and co-lectured tutorials on 'Information Theoretic Methods in Data Mining'.

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patternsthatmatter.org (personal)
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