On Friday, October 17th, a delegation (David, Jaap, Damiaan & Maik) of the ICAI OpenGov Lab was present at the UvA (AI) Thesis Fair to talk to prospective thesis students!
David & Maik in action, accompanied by our newly designed OpenGov banners!
Congratulations to Floris Bos (not pictured), whose Computer Science MSc thesis "Linking References to Documents in Parliamentary Debates" won the Best Short Paper Award at The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL2025) in Tampere, Finland!
Maarten Marx (left) with the Best Short Paper Award for Floris' paper at TPDL2025
We’re very happy to welcome Maik Larooij to the ICAI OpenGov Lab! This week he started as the lab’s fourth dual PhD student, combining his role as consultant at the Rijksorganisatie voor Informatiehuishouding with pursuing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam. Maik will be supervised by David Graus (co-promotor), alongside Maarten Marx (co-promotor) and Jaap Kamps (promotor).
Maarten Marx, Maik Larooij, and David Graus in the OpenGov Lab
Yesterday, the ICAI OpenGov Lab had its official kick-off at LAB42 UvA at Science Park in Amsterdam! The lab's Dual PhD candidates Damiaan Reijnaers, Lisa Winters, and Patricia Moeskops presented their research plans to the lab and partners from Rijksorganisatie voor Informatiehuishouding (RvIHH) and I-Partnerschap!
Lisa Winters, Erna Ruijer, Jaap Kamps, Paul van den Akker, Marion Hermans-Koelemij, Peter van der Donk, Patricia Panhuis, Patricia Moeskops, Damiaan Reijnaers, Sander Verhoeckx, and David Graus in front of LAB42
A large part of the young ICAI OpenGov Lab team presented their work at the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) in Lucca, Italy.
Naturally, the trip also included the forging of new ideas over Italian food 🍝.
Pepijn van Wijk, David Graus, Maik Larooij, Jaap Kamps, Damiaan Reijnaers, and Jan Hutter at ECIR 2025