Group members
Current members
- Steven Abreu, PhD student
- Herbert Jaeger, head of group
- Fabian IJpelaar, PhD student
- Guillaume Pourcel, PhD student
The MINDS group at the University of Groningen has been freshly re-founded since Herbert Jaeger moved from Jacobs University Bremen to Groningen in Fall 2019.
Alumni
- Celestine P. Lawrence, AI consultant
- Dirk Doorakkers, since 2021 PhD student at the University of Amsterdam
- Xu Owen He, since 2020 research scientist at Google DeepMind, since December 2024 Co-Founder and CTO of MakerMaker.AI, Montreal
- Fatemeh Hadaeghi, now postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Computational Neuroscience in the Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Tianlin Liu, now research scientist at Google DeepMind Paris
- Michael Thon, PhD completed Jan 2018, now with Hyundai MOBIS in Frankfurt
- Dzmitry Bahdanau, now a research scientist at Element AI (Montreal) and Adjunct Professor at McGill University
- Dr. Stéphane Beauregard, now an independent navigation systems consultant, Los Gatos, California
- Dr. Mathias Bode, now distinguished lecturer at Constructor University Bremen (formerly Jacobs University)
- Dr. Mathieu Galtier, now head of department at medical AI startup Rythm
- Paul R. Gemin, Now Senior Staff Engineer at GE Aviation, Cincinnati, with many patents
- Dr. Manjunath Gandhi, now Associate Professor in Mathematics (Dynamical Systems) at the University of Pretoria
- Jordan Ivanchev, now Co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at intobyte in Singapore
- Dr. Jiwen Li, now analyst at Get Capital AG
- Dr. Mantas Lukoševičius, now associate professor in machine learning at Kaunas University of Technology. He wrote much-used tutorial ESN code (in Python, Matlab, and R - your choice) while he was a MINDS member.
- Marta Müller, EU project administrator
- Vytenis Šakėnas
- Aparna Suchindranath
- Dr. Mingjie Zhao (now at a university in Hangzhou, China)
Some sparkling ones who did their theses in MINDS
- Dumitru Erhan (BSc 2004), now senior researcher at Google, Mountain View, 163000 Google Scholar cites (as of 2024)
- Benjamin Liebald (BSc 2004), then Leading SW Engineer at Google / YouTube, now co-founder of Mensch Labs
- Gediminas Luksys (BSc 2004), now lecturer at the University of Edinburgh
- Andreas Kolling (MSc 2006), now with Amazon Robotics
- Bartlomiej Grychtol (BSc 2007), now Humboldt Research Fellow at Fraunhofer IPA
- Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (MSc 2007), now associate professor at Cornell Univ.
- Razvan Pascanu (MSc 2009), now researcher at Google DeepMind - 61000 Google Scholar citations (as of 2024)
- Anca Dragan (BSc 2009), now associate professor at UC Berkeley
- Josip Djolonga (BSc 2011), now research engineer in the Google Brain team in Zurich
- Dzmitry Bahdanau (MSc 2016), now research scientist at Element AI that has just been acquired by ServiceNow; also a Core Industry Member of Mila and Adjunct Professor at McGill University 91000 Google Scholar citations (as of 2024)