Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences at TU/e

🚀 Innovation and Ethics in Digital Transformation 🌐 At the 4th meeting of the Digital Transformation Community (DTC) at TU/e, researchers such as Banu Aysolmaz and Yaoxin Wu shared their insights on AI and Generative AI. The panel discussion, led by Yingqian Zhang, offered an in-depth exploration of AI-driven business models and the ethical dimensions of digital transformation. Susan Hommerson emphasized the need for regulation, while Philip Nickel explored ethics. Martijn Beeks and Jelle Dikker showed practical applications of advanced AI tools. The breakout sessions provided valuable perspectives on AI applications such as requirement management and chatbots for emergency response. Important concerns such as security, intellectual property and the adoption of generative AI were discussed. TU/e researchers can contribute by providing expertise in reliable, explainable AI and integrating AI into work processes. This meeting strengthened the understanding of the possibilities and limitations of AI, and emphasized the shared responsibility to shape the future with AI. Collaboration between researchers and companies was further strengthened, which is essential for successfully navigating digital transformation. #DigitalTransformation #AI #Innovation 🤖💡🌍

Are you passionate about sustainability transitions? Are you eager to adopt a multi-system perspective to better understand and contribute to the sustainable transformation of local energy systems? We are offering a fully funded PhD (4y, 1fte) position, within the Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences at TU/e department at Eindhoven University of Technology. As PhD researcher, you will adopt a multi-system perspective to investigate local energy transitions, which refer to local socio-technological configurations, often developed by energy communities and/or municipalities, that involve innovations such as distributed renewable energy generation, smart grid systems, local energy trading, sustainable heating solutions, shared electric mobility, etc. This allows you to, for example, explore local misalignments, tensions, and barriers that result from treating heat and electricity transitions as separate policy domains and how system integration and sector coupling can be fostered to accelerate transformative change at the local level. https://lnkd.in/eW3BnAkY

🎉 Matthew J. Dennis, a researcher in the Philosophy and Ethics group, has been named a Next Nature Fellow. Dennis researches the ethics of creativity and artificial intelligence (AI) and brings a unique philosophical approach to this innovative network. 🌟 “AI is taking over many tasks that require human creativity. Understanding how to harness our creativity is important from an ethical perspective,” Matthew says. These insights are crucial for designers, engineers and academics because creativity is one of the most enjoyable aspects of their work. As a Fellow, Matthew will work with his doctoral student Lyanne Uhlhorn on the development of the Digital Wellness exhibition, which opens at Evoluon on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. This appointment gives him the opportunity to explore how designers and artists are creative and how they use AI in their work. Find out more about Matthew’s work here: https://lnkd.in/eM-8iUpR Congratulations, Matthew! 🎉

🎉 Congratulations to ruth oldenziel and Erin Whettell! 🎉 During IE&IS' year-end meeting, the IE&IS Valorization Prize 2024 and the first Staff Excellence Award were presented. Ruth Oldenziel and her team received the Valorization Prize for their research on sustainable urban mobility. Erin Whettel was honored with the Staff Excellence Award for her exceptional commitment and creative approach. Ruth Oldenziel and her team won the IE&IS Valorization Prize 2024 for their project The Cycling Cities Experience (Cycling Cities: Transitions of Sustainable Urban Mobility). This project, based on the unique “Five-Factor Framework,” analyzes and compares cycling infrastructures worldwide. The team worked with more than 50 cities in 25 countries and various stakeholders, including policymakers, users, activists, engineers and NGOs. Their research has made an enormous contribution to society by promoting sustainable urban mobility and establishing a global knowledge network. The jury praised their ability to valorize academic research and engage a wide audience through books, workshops, exhibitions and training modules.

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Loe Schlicher from the OPAC group recently delivered a keynote at the International Surveillance and Protection Conference in Amsterdam. 🌍 This conference brought together policymakers and advisors from across Europe. 🤝 The conference provided a platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration in the field of surveillance and protection. 🛡️ Representatives from the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Italy, and the United Kingdom were present. #Security #Innovation #InternationalCollaboration

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Like our Dutch Sinterklaas sprinkles candy these days, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) grants the wishes of researchers from our university 🍬🍭🍫🍡! Because again, congratulations are in order. This time to EAISI – Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute and in particular to researcher Gijs Dubbelman 👇👏 for receiving a 4.4 million grant within the NWO’s Perspectief program to develop a novel pre-competitive AI ‘toolkit’. How cool!   But that’s not the only accomplishment for the TU/e within the Perspectief program. Researcher Hareld Kemps from our university will also participate in CardiacCare@Home by the Radboudumc, and researchers Emilia Barakova and Panos Markopoulos will participate in TACIT - Inclusive Technologies for Access and Social Participation by the TU Delft. The first is about developing technology to monitor heart function and promote rehabilitation within the home environment. The second focuses on making digital services better accessible to people with disabilities by using artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality.   All promising and intriguing new scientific fields to discover! We’re keeping a close eye on them 🧐

🎓 How can organizations successfully transform their operating model in response to a business model redesign? Paola Lara Machado answers this fundamental question in her PhD research at the Information Systems group. She also provides tools to successfully transform the operating model and processes. 🌟 #BusinessTransformation #Innovation #DigitalTransformation

🎓 Congratulations Montijn van de Ven on his promotion on November 29 for your research on a method for defining KPIs for unique business models. 🔍 His work gives organizations the tools to choose KPIs that fit their specific needs, leading to better decision-making and innovation. 🌟 #Innovation #BusinessModels #KPI