Marcel Worring

Marcel Worring is a Full Professor of Multimedia Analytics at the Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, holding this position since 2020. He serves as Director of the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (Amsterdam location), Board Member of Ellis Unit Amsterdam, and Advisory Board Member for the Centre of Expertise Applied Artificial Intelligence at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

• Director, Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (2019-present)
• Scientific Co-director, AI4Forensics Lab (2023-present)
• Scientific Co-director, PoliceLab AI (2018-present)
• Former Director, Informatics Institute (2016-2019)

Worring's research focuses on Multimedia Analytics, developing AI techniques that bridge human and machine intelligence through visual interfaces. His work spans forensic intelligence, cultural heritage analysis, urban livability, and social media. He leads the MultiX research group which develops multimodal (hyper)graph learning frameworks for applications in health, law enforcement, and the cultural industry.

His publication portfolio demonstrates consistent leadership in multimedia systems, with the 2016 IEEE Transactions paper on Multimedia Pivot Tables representing foundational work in visual analytics for image collections. Recent research trends show increasing focus on multimodal deep learning, hypergraph applications, and forensic multimedia analysis.

• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Prize Paper Award (2012)
• Best paper award ACM CIVR (2010)
• Best demo award ACM Multimedia (2005)
• Best entry ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge (2014)

Worring has supervised over 30 PhD students to completion, including recent graduates working on fraud analytics, medical imaging, and cultural industry applications. His research is supported through major grants including NWO KIC's AI4Intelligence project (2023-2028) and the NFI-funded AI4Forensics Lab. He has served as Principal Investigator for projects totaling over 35 FTE positions across forensic, medical, and cultural domains.

Worring co-founded the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence and established key industry partnerships including the Police Lab AI with Utrecht University and the AI for Medical Imaging Lab with Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence. His group's work on visual analytics for forensic intelligence has been implemented by Dutch law enforcement agencies.