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Annette ten Teije is a Full Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) with appointments in the Faculty of Science, Artificial Intelligence department, the Network Institute, and the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning research group. Her academic career spans several decades with a strong focus on the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare applications.
Professor ten Teije's research interests center around Knowledge Representation, particularly in medical contexts. Her work bridges multiple domains including Semantic Web technologies, Ontology development, Neuro-Symbolic AI systems, and Clinical Decision Support. She has made significant contributions to the formalization of clinical guidelines, handling multimorbidity in healthcare systems, and developing design patterns for hybrid AI systems. Her research integrates machine learning with symbolic reasoning to create explainable and reliable AI systems for healthcare applications.
Analysis of Professor ten Teije's recent publications reveals a strong trajectory toward neuro-symbolic AI approaches that combine the strengths of neural networks and symbolic reasoning. Her work increasingly focuses on explainability in medical AI systems, with numerous publications on feature selection, interaction detection, and narrative-based understanding. She has developed frameworks for shared understanding in multi-agent systems and created design patterns specifically for medical decision-making contexts. Her research consistently bridges theoretical AI advances with practical healthcare applications.
Professor ten Teije has supervised 5 PhD theses as indicated in her academic profile and teaches courses including "AI in Health" and "Machine Learning and Reasoning for Health" for the 2024-2025 academic year. Her academic contributions extend to editorial work, including serving as editor for conference proceedings and special issues on Knowledge Representation for Healthcare Processes.
