Welcome! My name is Diederik M. Roijers. I am a senior researcher at the AI lab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and business developer at the Innovation Department of the Municipality of Amsterdam. By introducing oversight and rapid user-guided adaptation I want to create trustworthy AI that works for and with people.
I am a (founding ;-)) member of the PEER project, where we investigate human-AI collaboration systems. In Amsterdam, we do this in the context of an important use-case: accessible route planning. While at the VUB, we focus on rapidly learning and adapting to user preferences.
I am currently supervising the following awesome PhD students:
My main research interests are urban AI, reinforcement learning, planning, multi-agent systems, and multi-objective decision making. Please check out our tutorials or book for an introduction to multi-objective models and methods for multi-agent systems, RL and planning, or my publication page for information about our latest research. Other interests of mine are game theory, machine learning, robotics, e-tutoring systems, and education.
I obtained my PhD at the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Shimon Whiteson and Frans Oliehoek. Please check out my PhD thesis for further details. After my PhD, I worked on social robotics in the TERESA project, at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Oxford; as an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow on Multi-objective Reinforcement learning with Guarantees at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel; as assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; and as senior lecturer and researcher at the Institute of ICT and the Microsystems Technology Research Group where I worked on efficient AI for microproccessing systems and sensor data.
If you would like to contact me please e-mail me at diederik(dOt)roijers[aT]vub{d0t}be.