personal page of Sophia Katrenko

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teaching
activities
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Activities and memberships

   Board member of the AI Advisory Board at EC-Council 2026-
   Member of the EU AI Act Advisory Forum at European Commission 2026-
   Speaker at CDO AI Benelux events 2023-2025
   PhD committee member at the PhD defense of A. Kosar at University of Antwerp, Belgium. June 2025
   Reviewer for Austrian Research Promotion Agency 2025
   Benelux Association for AI (board member "AI in Industry", 2021 - )
   Expert evaluator at European Commission (2021 - onwards)
   Smart Tribe, 2020, mentor
   Hack the crisis NL, 2020, mentor
   Career lunch at UvA with PhD students and postdocs 2018, invited alumna
   LREC 2020, 2018, reviewer
   NLDB 2014, 2013, 2012, PC member
   ACL 2013, reviewer
   IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 2013, reviewer
   *SEM 2013, PC member
   CBMS 2013, 2012, PC
   EACL 2012 Student Research Workshop, PC
   LREC 2012, Scientific Committee member
   NLDB 2012, PC
   Workshop on Relational Models of Semantics (RELMS 2011) at ACL 2011, PC
   KDDSB11, KDDSB10, KDDSB09: Special Track on Knowledge Discovery and Decision Systems in Biomedicine, PC
   Workshop on Data Mining in Life Sciences DMLS, 2010, 2009, PC
   Workshop on High-level Information Extraction at ECML 2008, PC
   Special Track on Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge-based Techniques and Systems in Medicine at CBMS 2008, PC

ESSLLI Standing Committee secretary (2007-2018). Please do not hesitate to contact me if you're willing to give a course or organize ESSLLI in the future!
Co-organizing the annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning (Benelearn), held in Amsterdam, May 14 and 15, 2007.
Chair (together with Janneke Huitink) for the 11th ESSLLI Student Session (photos: at ESSLLI in general)
Co-chair for ESSLLI'05 student session (area: Language and Computation, together with Támas Bíró, our photos)
Member of IEEE (2001-2006) and Computer Society
Member of Dutch research school for Information and Knowledge Systems (SikS)

Participated in the following challenges:

Semeval (2007)
BioCreative II (2006/07)
Second Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge (2006)
Genic Interaction Extraction Challenge (2005)