Doina Bucur
Network data scientist with cross-disciplinary application domains. 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 inferring networked models (such as causal graphs) from data, mining network data, understanding the relation between network structure and function in complex systems, and optimising networks with AIs. 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, and a co-PI on the NWA ORC project DECIDE: Democratizing AI – Empowering Citizens through Transparent Decision-making (2025-2031), on ethical AI. Got a FAIR Data Fund (2022) to release a scholarly dataset of constellation line figures (spatial networks in celestial coordinates) from traditional astronomies around the world. Vice-chair of the Ethics Committee on Computer and Information Science at UTwente, where I handle matters of AI ethics.
Social networks | Ecological networks | Information networks | Constellation line figures | AI ethics