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Max van Duijn

Assistant professor

Name
Dr. M.J. van Duijn
Telephone
+31 71 527 7903
E-mail
m.j.van.duijn@liacs.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0798-9598

I am an assistant professor at Leiden University’s Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), where I co-founded the Creative Intelligence Lab (CIL). This lab brings together researchers from the cognitive and computer sciences who have a shared interest in the foundations of intelligence, both ‘in carbo’ and ‘in silico’, and who recognise creativity and playfulness as key factors in scientific innovation.

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I am an assistant professor at Leiden University’s Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), where I co-founded the Creative Intelligence Lab (CIL). This lab brings together researchers from the cognitive and computer sciences who have a shared interest in the foundations of intelligence, both ‘in carbo’ and ‘in silico’, and who recognise creativity as a key factor in scientific innovation. I am a lecturer in the Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) and Media Technology MSc programmes.

Research in my group combines methods from cognitive science, linguistics, and AI to study social intelligence, in particular empathy, perspective-taking, and Theory of Mind. Our work includes modelling these capacities in humans as well as in AI systems such as Large Language Models.

My NWO Veni project 'A Telling Story' (started 2020) set out to collect a large number of stories told by children aged 4-12 and extract features relevant to ‘fictional minds’ using computational techniques. This fuelled new ways in which the development of (advanced) social intelligence can be modelled and understood across primary-school ages. In addition, I am part of the NWO Zwaartekracht 'Hybrid Intelligence' and the 'AI4Oversight' ICAI Lab.

My work is published in English and Dutch, in scholarly as well as popular venues. In 2023 I was elected as a member of De Jonge Academy, the early-career chapter of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW), where I am co-chair of the Science & Society track and member of the Generative AI in Research & Education theme group.

Previously, I was a blogger for Faces of Sciencefacesofscience.

 

Assistant professor

  • Science
  • Leiden Inst of Advanced Computer Science

Work address

Snellius
Niels Bohrweg 1
2333 CA Leiden
Room number 128

Contact

Publications

  • De Jonge Akademie Algemeen lid & co-voorzitter trace Wetenschap & Samenleving
  • Väestöliitto, Helsinki & SENRG, University of Oxford Onderzoeker/mede-initiatiefnemer
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