Members

Mitra is an associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. Her research interest lies in spatio-temporal, time-series, and mobility data modelling. Specifically, she designs algorithms that extract patterns from such data in a fully automated manner. Her research targets applications in a broad range of urban, environmental, and industrial domains for which she has collaborations notably with the European Space Agency, Honda Research Institute, various municipalities, and researchers in other scientific disciplines.

Laurens is a Post doc at Leiden University supervised by dr. Mitra Baratchi, dr. Saber Salehkaleybar and dr. Elena Raponi. His research focuses on causal machine learning from spatio-temporal data. Prior to that his completed his PhD working on a poject named “Physics-aware Spatio-temporal Machine Learning for Earth Observation Data” in collaboration with the European Space Agency.

Sina Ghorbani Kolahi is a PhD candidate in Human Media Interaction at the University of Twente, funded by the NWA project Loneliness – Building 4 Belonging. In his doctoral research, he develops spatio-temporal and deep learning models to study how high school students’ social behaviors and physical activity evolve over time and across contexts. Sina’s research sits at the intersection of machine learning, multimodal sensing, and well-being.

Khashayar is a PhD fellow at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) at Leiden University. His topic is “Interpretable causal machine learning for intervention development from wearable sensors data, He is supervised by Wessel Kraaij, Mitra Baratchi, and Saber Salehkaleybar.

Julia started as a PhD candidate at the ADA Research group in September, 2022. She is supervised by Mitra Baratchi and Holger Hoos, as well as Ilse Aben and Bram Maasakkers from SRON. Previously, she completed her master degree in Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence at Leiden University. Her master’s thesis was on the topic of Automated Machine Learning for Earth Observation. She will continue to work on this topic during her PhD, in collaboration with ESA Phi-lab and SRON.

Nuno is a PhD student on the topic of Remote Sensing for conservation in Oostvaardersplassen. His research focuses on developing big data solutions based in Remote Sensing and advanced ecoinformatics tools to monitor the flora and fauna of the Oostvaardersplassen to help understand the animal and plant dynamics occurring in this unique ecosystem.

Bart is an MSc Computer Science student (AI track) at Leiden University. He is working on a thesis on data-centric AI for ammonia flux forecasting in collaboration with Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), supervised by Mitra Baratchi, Jan Willem Erisman (CML) and Tycho Jongenelen (CML). His interests include machine learning for time-series forecasting and environmental monitoring data.

Abygail is a Computer Science Master student in the Artificial Intelligence specialisation at Leiden University. She is currently doing her Master thesis on the integration of cross-validation methods for spatially correlated data in Automated Machine learning. She is supervised by dr. Mitra Baratchi and Julia Wasala.