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# Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (AIDA) Research Group
### Ghent University - IDLab
👋 Welcome to the Hugging Face page of the AIDA Research Group, a leading research team at Ghent University, which is part of the Internet Technology and Data Science Lab (IDLab) and collaborates with the University of Antwerp.
## About Us
The AIDA group, under the leadership of Prof. Tijl De Bie, is dedicated to advancing the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science. Our team includes:
- **9 PhD Students**
- **5 Postdoctoral Researchers**
- **2 Professors**
## Research Focus
Our research explores a diverse array of topics, including:
- **AI for HR and the Labour Market**: Leveraging AI to enhance human resources and labor market applications.
- **Data Visualization and Pattern Mining**: Creating visualizations and mining patterns to uncover insights from complex data.
- **Graph Mining**: Extracting meaningful patterns from graph-structured data.
- **AI Ethics and Fairness**: Ensuring ethical AI development and promoting fairness in machine learning models.
- **Large Language Models**: Studying and developing models capable of understanding and generating human language.
- **Recommender Systems**: Designing systems that provide personalized recommendations to users.
## Open Source
We believe in the power of open source. Our research code and projects are publicly available at [our GitHub repository](https://github.com/aida-ugent).
## Funding
This research was funded by:
- **Prof. De Bie’s FWO Odysseus Type 1 Grant**
- **The Flemish Government (AI Research Program)**
- **FWO and BOF Individual Fellowship Grants**
- **ERC Grant (VIGILIA, 101142229) funded by the European Union**
## Get Involved
If you're interested in joining our research efforts or collaborating with us, please refer to our [Contact section](https://aida.ugent.be/#contact).