Linda van der Gaag
Also known as Linda Christina van der Gaag
Linda van der Gaag is a Dutch computer scientist whose research concerns artificial intelligence for medical decision support systems, including graphical models, Bayesian networks and expert systems. She earned a doctorate at the University of Amsterdam in 1990 and co-authored the book Principles of Expert Systems in 1991. The European Association for Artificial Intelligence counts her among its fellows, and its June 2007 bulletin named her among nine newly nominated fellows. She headed the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University before moving to the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research (IDSIA) in 2019. She is SUPSI Professor at IDSIA in Switzerland, a title she received in 2020.
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- 31
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Timeline
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1959–1990
A doctorate in Amsterdam
Born in 1959, she is a Dutch computer scientist who completes a doctorate at the University of Amsterdam in 1990.
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1991
A book on expert systems
She co-authors the book Principles of Expert Systems with Peter J. F. Lucas, published by Addison-Wesley in 1991.
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2007
A fellowship nomination
In June 2007 the European Association for Artificial Intelligence announces nine newly nominated fellows, including her, and she is a fellow of the association today.
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2019
Moving from Utrecht to IDSIA
After heading the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, she moves to the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research (IDSIA) in 2019.
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Since 2020
A SUPSI professorship at IDSIA
At IDSIA in Switzerland she is named SUPSI Professor in 2020, a post she holds today. Her research concerns artificial intelligence for medical decision support, including graphical models, Bayesian networks and expert systems.
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