Teaching

Courses

• Digital Humanities and Social Analytics in Practice
  Co-instructor, Graduate course, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2026)
• Conversational AI
  Co-instructor, Undergraduate course, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2025)
• Communicative Robots
  Teaching Assistant, Graduate course, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2020, 2021, and 2022)
• Python for Text Analysis
  Co-instructor, Graduate course, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2021)

Supervision

• Ravini Wimalasuriya: Effective use of AI-generated historical reconstructions in representing multivocality in heritage. Master thesis (2025) Co-supervised with Gert-Jan Burgers.
• Vicky Kyrmanidi: The influence of structured representation on the accuracy of answer generation in conversational AI. Master thesis (2023) Co-supervised with Piek Vossen.

If you are looking for a MSc or BSc thesis project in the AI programme at the VU and are interested in cultural perspectives or multilinguality in LLMs or VLMs, reach out. I still have some availability this year.