Teaching and Supervision
Teaching, guest lectures, workshops, and student supervision (selected).
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) — IMPRS for Language Sciences
2025 — Course Coordinator & Lecturer
- Course: Programming for Research
- Program: International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences
University of Amsterdam (UvA)
2023 — Course Co-coordinator & Lecturer
- Course: Natural Language Models and Interfaces (NLMI)
- Program: BSc Artificial Intelligence (obligatory course)
Maastricht University (UM)
2022 — Tutor
- Course: Research Project Artificial Intelligence 2
- Program: BSc Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (obligatory)
2017–2019 — Head Teaching Assistant & Tutor
- Course: Computer Vision (KEN4255)
- Program: MSc Artificial Intelligence (elective)
2016 — Teaching Assistant
- Course: Programming (PRA2003)
- Program: University College Maastricht (elective)
Istanbul Technical University (ITU)
2015 — Teaching Assistant
- Course: Content-based Image and Video Retrieval (BLG 544E)
- Program: MSc Computer Engineering (elective)
Guest lectures, workshops, and summer schools
MEDAL Summer School (University of Birmingham, UK)
2025 — Plenary lecture + two-day hands-on workshop (with Raquel Fernández)
- Workshop: Methods for the Automatic Processing of Multimodal Interaction
- Event: MEDAL Summer School in Computational Modelling
Radboud University
2025 — Guest Lecturer
- Topic: Modelling multimodal interaction (from representation to generation)
- Courses: Conversational AI; Human-Robot Interaction
- Level: Master courses open to multiple programmes (Data Science, AI, Computer Science)
2023 — Lecturer
- Topic: Machine Learning for Multimodal Human Behavior
- Program: Summer School on Practical Approaches to Human Multimodal Behavior (Radboud University)
University of Amsterdam (UvA)
2024 — Guest Lecturer
- Topic: Gesture Modelling in Face-to-Face Dialogues
- Course: Natural Language Processing 2 (MSc Artificial Intelligence; elective)
2023 — Guest Lecturer
- Topic: Multimodal Communication
- Course: Natural Language Processing 1 (MSc Artificial Intelligence; obligatory)
Supervision (selected)
PhD candidates
2024–present — Lanmiao Liu (MPI for Psycholinguistics)
- Focus: Semantically rich co-speech gesture generation in interactive and multimodal environments
- Co-supervision: with Dr. Zerrin Yumak (Utrecht University)
2020–2021 — Bulat Khaertdinov (Maastricht University)
- Focus: Self-supervised learning for sensor-based human activity recognition
- Outputs: Publications at PerCom 2021, IJCB 2021, and IEEE TBIOM
MSc theses
2024 — Jacquelin Hana (University of Amsterdam)
- Topic: Reference resolution through patterns of speech and gestures in face-to-face dialogues
2021 — Andre Mertens (Maastricht University)
- Thesis: Explainable and interpretable features of emotion in human body expression
- Output: BNAIC/BeneLearn 2021
2020 — Jan Lucas (Maastricht University)
- Thesis: Deep, dimensional, and multimodal emotion recognition using attention mechanisms
- Output: BNAIC/BeneLearn 2020
2017 — Justus Schwan (Maastricht University)
- Thesis: Automatic recognition of screen worker’s engagement
BSc theses
2025 — Ferdinand Paar (Radboud University)
- Thesis: Object-aware gesture generation
2017 — Evangelos Trikoupis (Maastricht University)
- Thesis: Adaptation of collaborative learning games for engagement maximisation
Research internships
2017 — Justus Schwan (Maastricht University)
- Focus: Emotion recognition
- Output: SMAP 2017