Teaching and Supervision

Courses, invited teaching, workshops, and supervision.

Formal teaching

Course coordination, lecturing, and tutoring.

2025
Course Coordinator and Lecturer MPI for Psycholinguistics

Programming for Research

Programme
International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)
Audience
Graduate students and research scientists in the behavioural sciences
2023
Course Co-coordinator and Lecturer University of Amsterdam

Natural Language Models and Interfaces

Programme
Obligatory course in the Bachelor of AI
2022
Tutor Maastricht University

Research Projects Artificial Intelligence 2

Programme
Obligatory course in the Bachelor of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
2017— 2019
Head Teaching Assistant and Tutor Maastricht University

Computer Vision

Programme
Elective course in the Master of AI
2016
Teaching Assistant Maastricht University

Programming

Programme
Elective course in University College Maastricht
2015
Teaching Assistant Istanbul Technical University

Content-based Image and Video Retrieval

Programme
Elective course in the Master of Computer Engineering

Guest lectures, workshops, and summer schools

Invited teaching on multimodal interaction, gesture, dialogue, and multimodal behaviour.

2026
Guest Lecturer University of Amsterdam

Semantic Gesture Generation

Course
Speech and Gesture Recognition
Programme
Elective course in the Bachelor of AI
2025
Plenary lecture and two-day hands-on workshop MEDAL Summer School in Computational Modelling

Multimodal interaction

With
Raquel Fernández
2025
Guest Lecturer Radboud University

Modelling multimodal interaction from representation to generation in face-to-face communication

Courses
Conversational AI and Human Robot Interaction
Programme
Master courses open to several programmes, including Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science
2024
Guest Lecturer University of Amsterdam

Gesture Modelling in Face-to-Face Dialogues

Course
Natural Language Processing 2
Programme
Elective course in the Master of AI
2023
Guest Lecturer University of Amsterdam

Multimodal Communication

Course
Natural Language Processing 1
Programme
Obligatory course in the Master of AI
2023
Lecturer Radboud University

Machine Learning for Multimodal Human Behavior

Programme
Summer School on Practical Approaches to Human Multimodal Behaviour

Supervision

Daily supervision across PhD, MSc, BSc, and internships.

PhD candidates

2025— present
Supervisor MPI for Psycholinguistics and Boğaziçi University

Onur Keleş

Focus
Iconicity perception and production in humans and machines
2024— present
Co-supervisor MPI for Psycholinguistics

Lanmiao Liu

Focus
Semantically rich gesture generation in interactive and multi-modal environments
Collaboration
Dr Zerrin Yumak, Utrecht University
2020— 2021
Supervisor Maastricht University

Bulat Khaertdinov

Focus
Self-supervised learning for human activity recognition
Publications
PerCom 2021, IJCB 2021, and IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behaviour, and Identity Science

MSc students

2025— present
Supervisor Utrecht University

Nick Milkin

Topic
Semantic gesture generation
2025— present
Supervisor University of Amsterdam

David Werkhoven

Topic
Gesture generation in face-to-face interactions
2024
Supervisor University of Amsterdam

Jacquelin Hana

Topic
Reference resolution through patterns of speech and gestures in face-to-face dialogues
2021
Supervisor Maastricht University

Andre Mertens

Thesis
Explainable and interpretable features of emotion in human body expression
Published
BNAIC/BeneLearn 2021
2020
Supervisor Maastricht University

Jan Lucas

Thesis
Deep, dimensional, and multimodal emotion recognition using attention mechanisms
Published
BNAIC/BeneLearn 2020
2017
Supervisor Maastricht University

Justus Schwan

Thesis
Automatic recognition of screen worker’s engagement

BSc students

2025
Supervisor Radboud University

Ferdinand Paar

Thesis
Object-aware gesture generation
2017
Supervisor Maastricht University

Evangelos Trikoupis

Thesis
Adaptation of collaborative learning games for engagement maximization

Internships

2017
Supervisor Maastricht University

Justus Schwan

Focus
Emotion recognition
Published
Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP)