Wico Mulder

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All-round ITer met een sterke wetenschappelijke achtergrond en visie op het gebied van data en kunstmatige intelligentie (AI).

Verbindt onderzoek met vragen uit het bedrijfsleven.

Combineert inhoud met praktische oplossingen op het gebied AI, machine learning, software engineering.

Creatief, Innovatief, Initierend

Praktijk

Ontwerp en toepassing AI-algoritmen
Co-innovatie, Roadmapping
Datascience en machine learing
Visie, inspiratie

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Onderzoek

Lerende systemen
AI in dataspaces
Interactie en samenwerking met AI

Work & Projects

Links to projects, activities and blogs

2023: blog Mentaliseren: Mens en AI houden rekening met elkaar

2020: blog Op weg naar pratende parkeergarages

2017: blog Digital twins korter dan gedacht

2016: Mensen en voorwerpen met elkaar verbonden

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Extended profile

Dr. Wico Mulder is senior scientist and consultant at TNO. He has a strong background in science and software engineering. Wico’s main research interest is on the topic of AI and its interaction with humans in our society. He combines his scientific work with practical solutions in industry, healthcare, smart buildings, and public safety.
Wico holds an MSc in Physics at the university of Groningen. His career started as a software architect in 1997 at CMG, a large IT consultancy firm, taken over by Logica, and today known as CGI. From 2004 – 2010 Wico was frontrunner in the company’s participation in national and European research projects (ECOLEAD, vl-E). He specialized himself further in data intensive and distributed systems and worked in parallel at the institute for computer science at the University of Amsterdam. For his work on machine learning in multi agent systems, with applications in computing-grids and business eco-systems, he received a personal grant (Casimir) from the Dutch Institute for Scientific Research (NWO). In 2011 he received his PhD at the university of Amsterdam on the topic of ‘Learning Agent Organisations’. He was the technical lead of a social community project for the Dutch police (ComProNet), worked on the machine learning for personalized medicine at the former Alan Turing Institute in Almere. In 2015 he joined KPN Consulting in the role of lead Data & Analytics where he set up a student Lab. He supervised several bachelor and M.Sc. students and was a lead architect in machine learning projects in the domain of smart farming, healthcare and public safety. The work at KPN Consulting has led to a multi-year strategic collaboration with the Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen.
In January 2021 he started at TNO, the Dutch institute for scientific research and innovation, to further extend his work in the field of data sharing and artificial intelligence with applications in industrial domains. His main interest is on networks of interacting agents, distributed learning human-machine-interaction and digital twins (which he politely bends towards the concept of Avatars).
At TNO he is the initiator of the Human-AI Ecosystems Lab, an initiative to facilitate collaboration and knowledge exchange between multidisciplinary researchers within and outside of TNO around the topic of Human-AI Ecosystems Wico likes to engage people in innovative projects and partner ecosystems and to translate knowledge into solutions that strengthen business and well-being in our society. He is an active member of the data science community in the Northern Netherlands. Wico is married and has three children. In his spare time he likes to be creative, explain mathematics to youngsters and write some code for fun.

Scientific publications

Mulder, W., Meyer-Vitali, A., (2023). "A Maturity Model for Collaborative Agents in Human-AI Ecosystems". In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Boucher, X., Ortiz, A. (eds) Collaborative Networks in Digitalization and Society 5.0. PRO-VE 2023. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 688. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42622-3_23

Bootsma, J., Mulder, W., (2023). "If only I knew: Extending the SCSN vocabulary to Improve the Resilience of Supply Chain Networks". In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Boucher, X., Ortiz, A. (eds) Collaborative Networks in Digitalization and Society 5.0. PRO-VE 2023. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 688. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42622-3_23

Meyer-Vitali, A., Mulder, W., and Boer, M. H. T. de. (2021) “Modular Design Patterns for Hybrid Actors”. In: Cooperative AI Workshop. Vol. 2021. NeurIPS. arXiv: 2109.09331. Dec. 2021.

Wortmann, J.C., Mulder, W., (2016). Reflections on Identity Management in Smart Industry: The Paradox of Theseus’ Ship and Beyond. 10.1007/978-3-319-51133-7_36.

Mulder, W., Meijer, G. R., and Adriaans, P. W., (2008) “Collaborative Learning Agents Supporting Service Network Management”. In: Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering. Ed. by Kowalczyk, R. et al. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008, pp. 83–92. isbn: 978-3-540-79968-9.