People
Group leader
Prof. Thomas Bäck
Professor of Natural Computing
Assistant and Associate Professors
Niki van Stein
Associate Professor of Explainable AI
Hao Wang
Assistant Professor of Optimization and Learning
Anna V. Kononova
Assistant Professor of Efficient Heuristic Optimization
Elena Raponi
Assistant Professor of Bayesian Optimization
Yingjie Fan
Assistant Professor of Logistics Optimization
Florian Neukart
Assistant Professor
Michael Emmerich
Guest researcher
Andre Deutz
Guest lecturer
Post Doctoral Researchers
Furong Ye
Kevin Godin-Dubois
External PostDoc (VU Amsterdam)
Staff
Graduate Students
Qi Huang
Ananta Shahane
Scientific programmer
Xiaohan Wei
Waheeda Saib
Chen Chen
Christiaan Lamers
Kirill Antonov
Jiahuizi Luo
Iryna Kovalchyk
Aditya Bodas
Jana Strizak
Angélie Gaval
Alexander Zeiser
Jacob de Nobel
Annie Wong
Haoran Yin
Shuaiqun Pan
Wei Liu
Lucas Correia
Anna van Oosterzee
Sebastian Ellmaier
Ksenia Pereverdieva
Bernd Wagner
Sofoklis Kitharidis
Farrukh Baratov
Savine Mertens
Debargha Ghosh
Collaborators
Agnese Rizzato
Robin van der Laag
Suzan Verberne
BMW
HRI Europe
Heerema Marine Contractors
ASML
Hanze Hogeschool
Roman Senkerik
Professor at Tomas Bata University, Zlin.
Michal Pluháček
Associate Professor at Tomas Bata University, Zlin.
Fabio Caraffini
Associate Professor at Swansea University.
Daniela Zaharie
West University of Timisoara
Alumni
Burak Gülmez
Fu-Xing Long
PhD, 2025. Now at BMW.
Roy de Winter
PhD, 2024. Now at TU-Delft.
Duc Anh Nguyen
PhD 2024
Diederick Vermetten
PhD, 2025.
Veysel Kocaman
Andre Thomaser
PhD, 2024. Now at BMW.
Maarten Vonk
PhD, 2026.
Jiawen Kong
Thiago Rios
Ph.D., 2022. Now at HRI Europe.
Ron Breukelaar
Ramin Etemadi Idgahi
Daniel Gaida
Theodoros Georgiou
Alexander Hagg
Natasa Kieft
Milan Koch
Patrick Koch
Johannes Willem Kruisselbrink
Rui Li
Ingo Matthias
Asep Moelana
Ofer Michael Sir
Mozhan Soltani
Mohamed Tleis