Doina Bucur
Network data scientist, Assistant Professor in Computer Science at UTwente (The Netherlands). The name is pronounced: 'Doy-nah 'Boo-koor (and has a complicated etymology).
I work on mining network data, understanding the relation between network structure and function in complex systems, optimising networks using AI (metaheuristics), and machine-learning graphical models such as causal graphs. The data is diverse: social, ecological, computer, information, and cultural networks. I'm associated with the Netherlands Institute for Ecology and a PI on the NWO Perspectief project Soil biodiversity analysis for sustainable production systems (SoilProS) (2023-2028), on ecological networks. Got a FAIR Data Fund in 2022 to release a scholarly dataset of constellation line figures (spatial networks in celestial coordinates) from traditional astronomies around the world. In national grant committees: NWO Talent Programme Vidi, domain Science (area Computer Science, Physics, and Mathematics) (2022), and Open Technology Programme of the NWO domain Applied Science (no disciplinary boundaries) (2023). Part of the Ethics Committee on Computer and Information Science, where I handle matters of AI ethics.
Social networks | Ecological networks | Information networks | Constellation line figures | AI ethics