Other Activities

This page summarises some of my scientific/academic/AI-related activities (other than my publications, and education activities, which have their own dedicated pages).

Committees & Networks

• Vice Chair of the IEEE CIS Games Technical Committee
• Co-leader for Working Group 1: Search, Planning, Learning, and Explainability of COST Action CA22145: Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage (GameTable).
• Representative of the Netherlands in the Management Committee of COST Action CA22145: Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage (GameTable).

Grants

• I was awarded a Kaggle Competitions Research Grant, used to fund the organisation of a data science competition on Kaggle (50,000 USD prize pool, 2024)
• Secondary proposer for COST Action CA22145: Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage (GameTable) (~600,000 euros over 4 years, awarded on 12/05/2023)

Organisation

Organisation of Competitions

• Main organiser of the “UM - Game-Playing Strength of MCTS Variants” on Kaggle. (50,000 USD prize pool)

Invited Talks & Invite-only Events

• “Generality and Generalisation in Principle and in Practice”: INGI Seminar at UCLouvain (2025)
• Aachen Symposium on Representation Learning to Act and Plan (2024)
• Dagstuhl Research Meeting on Digital Archaeoludology (2019)

Editorial Boards

• Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning (TMLR)

Peer Review

Peer Review - Journals

I have reviewed papers for the following journals:

• Information Sciences
• IEEE Transactions on Games (TOG) (Outstanding Reviewer for 2022)
• International Computer Games Association Journal (ICGA)

Peer Review - Conferences

I have reviewed papers for the following conferences:

• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• Advances in Computer Games (ACG)
• Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)
• Computers and Games (CG)
• Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (Top Reviewer 2023)
• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
• European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD)
• Foundations of Digital Games (FDG)
• IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)
• IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)
• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
• International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (Outstanding/Highlighted/Notable Reviewer 2021, 2022, 2023)
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (Outstanding Reviewer 2022)
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
• Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC) (Senior Reviewer 2024, Area Chair 2025+)

Peer Review - Workshops

I have reviewed papers for the following workshops:

• UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI)
• Workshop on Computer Games (CGW)

Community

• Tutor at the Women in Data Science Maastricht Datathon 2024.
• Tutor at the Women in Data Science Maastricht Datathon 2023.
• Moderator at https://ai.stackexchange.com/ (since 2020).
• Top 0.5% contributor at https://ai.stackexchange.com/.
• Top 5% contributor at https://stackoverflow.com/.

Other

Media Appearances

• 2016: An article about me winning the GVGAI Single Player Championship 2016, and Best Student Paper Award at IEEE CIG 2016, appeared in the regional newspaper De Limburger.