Every year, the Netherlands eScience Center awards 50.000 EUR of eScience expertise to a young and ambitious researcher. Applicants have to be true collaborators who apply or develop research software to solve challenging research questions in their discipline. This year the applicants are also asked how their novel research idea contributes to scientific research beyond their project.
Three nominees are invited to give a short pitch at the conference dinner of the 14th IEEE eScience Conference on Tuesday 30 October 2018, after which the winner will be announced.
Meike Nauta, recently graduated, has opened an impactful research line at the University of Twente: Using machine learning to discover causal relationships in time series data. Meike would like to collaborate with eScience Center to design and implement a deep learning framework that distinguishes between correlation and causation such that we can visualize and interpret the learnt thought process of a deep learning model to discover causal relationships in observational data. She proposes to apply the developed deep learning framework to real-life EEG data available at the University of Twente to discover the start of an epileptic seizure, which would help to develop pre-notification devices.
Two other nominees are Gennady Roshchupkin – Erasmus University Medical Center and Esther Bron – Erasmus University Medical Center. Read more about their work on the website: https://www.esciencecenter.nl/news/we-are-pleased-to-present-three-nominees-for-the-young-escientist-award-201
Meike has also been nominated for the KNVI (KHMW in Dutch) Thesis Prize for Informatics and Information Science, we will publish more on the KNVI wards later in October.
