SURF Research Day 2026

Vanschoren, Joaquin

Joaquin Vanschoren is an associate professor at TU Eindhoven and leads the research group on Advanced Models through Open Research and Engineering (AMORE). He aims to scientifically understand and build AI systems with advanced capabilities, and make AI accessible to benefit all of humanity.

He founded OpenML, an open science platform to streamline and accelerate AI research. He was the inaugural chair of the NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks track, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the DMLR journal, co-chair of the MLCommons AI Risk & Reliability working group, and co-founder of the Croissant standard for AI datasets.

He is a founding member of the European AI societies ELLIS and CAIRNE, authored the first book on AutoML, gave tutorials at NeurIPS and AAAI, won several awards (including the Dutch Data Prize and Amazon Research Award), and has been interviewed for news articles in Nature, Science, and podcasts.


Session

05-19
15:10
30min
Creating a Dutch Platform for AI-Driven Research
Vanschoren, Joaquin, Yue Zhao
Presentation
Plenary room